Con Fada, as well as being a first rate accordionist, has an acute lyrical gift which he uses to amuse. His humorous songs are deservedly famous and are beginning to be sung all over Ireland. Until now, only a few have been available on record, the most famous being The Pool Song. On this album he includes 12 examples of eloquent hilarity, truly funny accounts of bizarre happenings written in an elegant traditional idiom to traditional tunes, songs that will shortly be traditional themselves. Perhaps the best is his elegy for his newly spayed dog, Bob, an outrageously funny lament for thwarted ambition, but each one is a nugget. The presentation is novel in that in place of a CD booklet the notes are in a handsome hardback book illustrated by Adain O Donnell. CD and book together cost the same as the average Irish traditional CD.