{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = The Chieftains 5 | type = Album | artist = The Chieftains | cover = The Chieftains 5.jpg | alt = | released = 1975 | recorded = | venue = | studio = Sound Techniques, Chelsea, London | genre = Irish folk music | length = 44:39 | label = Claddagh, Island<ref name=CL/> | producer = Paddy Moloney | prev_title = The Chieftains 4 | prev_year = 1973 | next_title = The Chieftains 6: Bonaparte's Retreat | next_year = 1976 }} {{Album ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |title=AllMusic Review by Bruce Eder |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-chieftains-5-mw0000677995 |website=AllMusic |access-date=24 March 2021}}</ref> |rev2 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' |rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=2 |page=334}}</ref> |rev3 = ''MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide'' |rev3score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name="MH">{{cite book |title=MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide |date=1998 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=155}}</ref> |rev4 = ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' |rev4score = {{rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=131}}</ref> }} '''''The Chieftains 5''''' is an album by The Chieftains, released in 1975.<ref>{{cite web |title=Artist Biography by Bruce Eder |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-chieftains-mn0000067406/biography |website=AllMusic |access-date=24 March 2021}}</ref> It was the band's first album as a professional group. Derek Bell played the tiompan (the Irish hammered dulcimer) for the first time on this album.<ref name=NY/> It marked the last album appearance of Peader Mercier.
==Critical reception== ''The New York Times'' called the album "highly innovative" and the music "quite descriptive," praising the "wild jigs and reels, impish hornpipes and raucous slides."<ref name="NY">{{cite web |title=The Chieftains—Irish Music From the Source |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/14/archives/the-chieftainsirish-music-from-the-source.html |website=The New York Times |date=14 December 1975 |access-date=24 March 2021}}</ref>
==Track listing== # "The Timpán Reel" – 3:12 # "Tabhair dom do Lámh (Give me your Hand)" – 2:37 # "Three Kerry Polkas" – 2:54 # "Ceol Bhriotánach (Breton Music)" – 5:08 # "The Chieftains' Knock on the Door" – 7:16 # "The Robber's Glen" – 3:51 # "An Ghé agus Grá Geal (The Goose & Bright Love)" – 3:23 # "The Humours of Carolan" – 8:26 # "Samhradh, Samhradh (Summertime, Summertime)" – 4:07 # "Kerry Slides" – 3:45
==Personnel== ;The Chieftains *Paddy Moloney - Uilleann pipes, tin whistle, arrangements, musical direction *Peadar Mercier - bodhrán, bones *Ronnie McShane - bones *Martin Fay - fiddle *Seán Keane - fiddle *Michael Tubridy - flute, concertina, tin whistle *Derek Bell - harp, oboe, timpani *Seán Potts - tin whistle
==Charts== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" ! Chart (1975–1976) ! Peak<br />position |- ! scope="row"| Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=62}}</ref> | 73 |- ! scope="row"| US (''Billboard'' Top LPs & Tape)<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Billboard|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1976-03-20/|title=Billboard 200|date=20 March 1976 |access-date=29 May 2023}}</ref> | 187 |- |}
==References== {{Reflist}} {{The Chieftains}}
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