THE YELLOW BITTERN is a revealing and surprising portrait of Liam Clancy, the man that Bob Dylan called just the best ballad singer I d ever heard in my whole life . This intimate, confessional and highly cinematic documentary film charts the remarkable rise to fame of these devil-may-care Irish singers, from their small-town beginnings in County Tipperary in Ireland to the folk hey-day of Greenwich Village in the Sixties where they played for JFK and out-sold the Beatles. The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem would go on to influence artists from Dylan to Pete Seeger and The Pogues.

Drawing on extraordinary unseen (and behind-the-scenes) footage of the band at their height as well as on Clancy’s own personal archive, the Yellow Bittern also goes behind the mask of the performer and delves deep into the psyche of Liam Clancy as well as his troubled personal life where the excesses of rock-and-roll found their way in to the world of folk. A truly compelling look at an iconic and influential life lived to the full. 
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Disc One (110 minutes)

The Yellow Bittern The life and Times of Liam Clancy
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Disc Two (65 minutes)

Extras  Film Trailer / Interviews /Liam at home with friends /Additional performances including "Those were the days " from the White Huse Tavern /New York and "Brennan on the Moon"

FORMAT - PAL : REGION 2 (Europe, including France, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, Japan and South Africa) - might not play in North America or Australia