The Fluidity of Irish Tradition and Music

My grandfather was from Dublin, and he insisted on everybody singing Clancy Brothers. But the sense of timing was so fluid because Johnny Cash was also such a part of it that it became this kind of authoritarian tempo that we had to follow. That goes against the fluidity of Irish tradition and music. Anything I always find in music that's anti-colonial, and music that comes from an oppressed people tends not to be heavily structured. And Irish music is like that. We're not really strict. It's about the crack.