1. Solid Ground
2. Tommy Peoples
Windmill
Fintan McManus's
3. Coinleach Ghlas An Fromhair
4. On Horseback
5. Season Of Mists
6. Lakes Of Pontchartrain
7. White Petticoat
Kerry
Katy Is Waiting
8. Terry Cuz Teahans
Murphy's
O'Sullivan's
9. Molly And Johnny
10. Humours Of Lissadell
Music In The Glen
Johnson's
11. Boys Of Malin
Gravel Walks
12. Dulman
Charlie O'Neil's Highland
13. Mist On The Mountain
Three Little Drummers
14. Da New Rigged Ship
Untitled
Hand Me Down The Tackle
15. Colm Cille Na Feile
16. Sod Of Turf
Katie Goes To Granny
17. O' Connell's March
Galway Bay
Banshee's Wail Over The Mangle Pit
Featuring Dolores Keane, Altan, Clannad, Eilieen Ivers, Kevin Crawford, Deanta, Patrick Street, Sliabh Notes, Dervish, Joe Derrane, Ciaran Tourish and Dermot McLaughlin, Cran, Brendan Larrissey, Siobhan O'Donnell, Karen Tweed and Andy Cutting, Maighread Ni Dhomhnaill, Martin Murray, Martin Hayes.
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[02]. Rough Guide English Roots Music
Discover the roots of English music with this authoritative 70-minute tour.This superb Rough Guide profiles influential and talented musicians who have been instrumental in establishing and reviving England's thriving folk scene.
Every decade or so, it seems that English folk and roots music develops the impetus to revisit and reinvent, taking familiar elements and bending them into new shapes that have the twin appeals of familiarity and newness. Such sudden reinventions have provided listeners with the work of artists as diverse and closely linked as Ewan MacColl, Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, June Tabor, and Phillip Pickett; the music may hail from the present or from 600 years ago, and instrumentation may involved electric guitars, trap drums, concertina, and someone blasting away with a crumhorn (a combination likely to reveal the presence of Ashley Hutchings, with the Albion Band or without). The Rough Guide to English Roots Music pulls together 18 likely suspects, with an accent on the closing years of the 20th century, which means selections from Eliza Carthy & the Kings of Calicutt and Billy Bragg alongside such expected icons as Martin Carthy and the Watersons. There are some excellent choices to be found in this set, but it functions all too well as an appetizer -- indulging in this collection could lead to rash actions later, such as carting off boxes of albums of English roots artists, or purchasing one each of everything in the Topic Records back catalog; the most hopeless cases will never again be able to imagine having led a life without Ashley Hutchings. ~ Steven McDonald, All Music Guide
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[03]. The Rough Guide to Scottish Music (First Edition)
One of the very early entries in the Rough Guides series of CDs, the first Rough Guide to Scottish Music makes a fair stab at trying to collect the traditional and contemporary, the ancient and the new, and the revered and the blasphemous in Scottish music. The album opens with Wolfstone and some contemporary Scot rock, complete with bagpipes, fiddle, electric piano, and rock drum kit. Cathie Ann MacPhee provides an old Gaelic piece, and Capercaillie provides a brand new Gaelic piece to follow. Iron Horse turns in an instrumental piece of atmospheric music, and Talitha MacKenzie (formerly of Mouth Music) incorporates Tuvan throat singing, African drumming, and a club beat into a Gaelic song to stunning effect. After a short martial interlude, the Cast contributes a piece of what is essentially the Scottish end of the Celtic song style. The towering figure of Dick Gaughan is represented with a piece from his major Handful of Earth album, and the Tannahill Weavers toss in a nice piece on a number of fiddles. The Boys of the Lough provide another look at Scottish Celtic traditions, Heather Heywood continues the theme with her voice, and Tannas pumps the beat back up a bit with some call-and-response singing and drumming. Before the album is over, more representatives of the Scottish folk revival scene show up for a number, followed always by another fine example of the same. There's a decent amount of variety here to be heard, and though there's something of a mild lack in the field of the absolute newest developments in Scottish revivalism (including some of the hardest-edged rock involving bagpipes since AC/DC), that's mostly addressed in the later second volume disc. This one's a fine introduction into contemporary Scottish music, keeping an eye on its influences from traditional forms. ~ Adam Greenberg, All Music Guide
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[04]. The Rough Guide To The Music Of Scottish Music (Second Edition)
In an all-new second edition focusing on the music of Scotland, Pete Heywood compiled a set of completely contemporary tracks, some by established artists like the Battlefield Band and many by a new generation who have embraced the music's older traditions after having been raised on 20th century pop/rock, blues, and jazz. One thing binds them together: No matter how contemporary some of these artists are, their musical sensibilities are rooted in the past. Instrumentation may be such that Emily Smith uses a piano alongside the fiddle on the centuries-old "Fair Helen of Kirconnel," with a new melody she composed. Elsewhere, the internationally renowned Capercaillie juxtapose the Uillean pipes with the bagpipes, synthesizers, electronic percussion, and a melody from the 17th century. It's haunting in Karen Matheson's gorgeous alto and floats rather than stomps across the listener's sound palette. Jack Beck from the kingdom of Fife (like Jackie Leven) sings a ballad in both his native tongue and in the King's English, accompanied by whistles and his guitar playing. Christine Primrose is a native Gaelic speaker and is steeped in both tradition and culture. Though she is a young woman, the music she sings comes from the Scotland of her ancestors. Likewise, the Boys of the Lough turn their medley of "Brother Gildas" and "Calliope House" into a rollicking journey through the ages and musical evolution. Nothing on this collection is more moving than the medley performed by Pipe Sergeant Gordon J. Walker on Gaelic air and hornpipes. From droning balladry to lively jigs to reels, he invests a maximum of emotion from the Pentland Firth -- one of the most dangerous areas of the world in winter -- and extracts the muse's own song in his readings of these timeless songs. This set with its contemporary bent may be tough for followers of strict tradition to swallow -- though there's plenty of that here -- but in all it is stronger and more vibrant than the first edition, and a welcome addition to any library of world music. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
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[05]. Rough Guide to Irish Folk
The Rough Guide to Irish Folk provides an introduction to the different styles and artists within the genre. Established groups like De Danann and Deata and newer artists perform jigs, reels, and "sean nos, " a traditional form of a cappella singing. Rich in heritage and creativity, this collection should whet the appetite of anyone interested in contemporary Irish folk performers. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide
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