 Paddy Clancy also started and ran the folk-music label Tradition Records, which produced Odetta's first solo LP and initially brought Carolyn Hester to national prominence.Pete Seeger played the banjo on their Grammy-nominated 1961 album, "A Spontaneous Performance Recording", and Bob Dylan later cited the group as a major influence on him.The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem also sparked a folk-music boom in Ireland in the mid-1960s, illustrating the world-wide effects of the American folk-music revival.