Traditional Fiddle of Cape Breton 1: Mabou

Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rounder Select
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 682161703725
EAN: 0682161703725
ASIN: B00006JNH6

Release Date: 2002-09-24

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Tracks:

The Countess Of Crawford/The Connoisseur/Miller's/Miss Charlotte Alston Steward's/Willie MacKenzie's - Fr. Angus Morris
Doctor MacLeod Of Alnick - Gordon MacLean
The Man In The Moon/Highlander Over The Border/Smash Th Window's/The Frost All Over - Marianne Jewell
Mr. Marshall's Favorite - Alex Francis Mackay
A Trip To Mabou Ridge/Mabou Coal Mines/Sir Reginald MacDonald/Miss Wedderburn - Gordon MacLean
Mo Mhathair/The Strong Man Of Drum/Knit The Pocky/Wedderburn House/Mr Menzies Of Culdare/Lord Drummond - Fr. Angus Morris
Christy Campbell/Anthony Murray/Bodach Fodair - Alex Francis Mackay
The Athole Highlander's Farewell To Loch Katrine/Miss Maule's/The Editor's Favorite/St. Kilda Wedding/The Smith's Burn/The Bridge Of Bamore - Gordon MacLean
Queen Elizabeth's/Lady Dorothea Stewart Murray's Wedding/Scotland Salute To The Home Guard - Alex Francis Mackay
A Tribute To Elizabeth Beaton/Traditional/Traditional/The Yetts Of Muckart/Tramper Down - Fr. Angus Morris
Srath-Spe/Struan Robert's/Bog An Lachan/Flora MacDonald/Traditional/Johnny Sullivan's/The Nine Pint Coggie/The $10 Fiddle - Marianne Jewell
The Rover's Return/The Irishman's Heart TO The Ladies/Cock O' The North - Gordon MacLean
The North Hunt Medley/The Stormont Lads/Cutty Sark/Lady Georgina Campbell - Alex Francis Mackay
Captain Campbell/Hoch Hey Johnny Lad/Lucy Campbell/Colonel McBain's Fancy/Andres Fulton's/The Smith's Burn - Fr. Angus Morris

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Traditional Fiddle of Cape Breton 2: Rover's Return
The Heart of Cape Breton
Cape Breton Fiddle and Piano Music
The Cape Breton Connection
Scottish Fire

Customer Reviews:

Top of the line fiddle music.......2006-11-02

This record and its companion, "The Rover's Return," make up a set that is as fine as any collection of folk music on record. Anyone familiar with fiddling will know that the Cape Breton fiddlers are unexcelled. This pair of recordings has two huge advantages. First, it documents local old-time styles with particularly fine examples. Second, each record comes with a truly superb booklet--maybe "short book" would be better. The booklets provide deep histories and technical accounts of the styles, and biographies of the performers. Careful wording allows amazing amounts of information to be packaged in a small format. Also, the booklets are unashamedly partisan--the authors love the music and are advocates for it. How refreshingly preferable to the weasel-worded "everybody's nice" school of folk-music scholarship.
I am saddened that no one has seen fit to single out these recordings before. Reader, if you have the slightest interest in folk music, or violin music, buy these records. Even if your violin tastes run heavily to Bach and Vivaldi and you have never explored traditional folk music, you will love these records to distraction--if you can give yourself time to accommodate your ear to a unique, intricate, stunningly effective local style.

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