Strayaway Child

Strayaway Child Artist: Jerry Read Smith
Label: Silent Planet
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD


UPC: 607913020127
EAN: 0607913020127
ASIN: B000008SZN


Release Date: 1996-12-03

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Tracks:

  1. Dream
  2. Strayaway Child
  3. Martin Wynne's/The Pigeon on the Gate
  4. Midnight on the Water/Star of the County Down
  5. Dancing Dog/Blarney Pilgrim
  6. Lord Inchiquin
  7. Jesu, Our Joy of Man's Desiring
  8. Butterfly/Swallowtail Jig
  9. Castle Kelly
  10. South Wind
  11. Kesh Jig/The Kid on the Mountain
  12. Over the Rainbow/Dream, the (Reprise)

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  1. Homecoming

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Pure pleasure. Something special!.......2004-01-01

A blend of Celtic and American folk music played with feeling and compelling flare. The full, shimmering waterfall of Jerry Read Smith's hammered-dulcimer playing takes center stage, flowing together with a sumptuous variety of accompanying instruments--guitar, bouzouki, bass, Irish flute, tin whistle, bodhran, fiddle and slide dobro, played by Tom Fellenbaum, Chris Abell, Don Jackson and Phil Johnson. Many of the tunes on "Strayaway Child" are familiar and have been played many times by many people, but the arrangements and execution of Smith and his friends are so startlingly rich and heartfelt that I feel like I've never heard them before! In his liner notes, Smith writes: "'The Strayaway Child' is a conceptual recording ... an instrumental `dream' that expresses a journey through time filled with flights of fancy, time for thought and reflection, and emotional confrontation. It is the beginning of an instrumental trilogy, a journey of the heart!" Smith's creative journey and uniquely engaging style continues in the next installment of the trilogy, "Heartdance" and concludes in "Homecoming". The three recordings together are also available as a set, "The Strayaway Child Trilogy". Two other artists who also offer creative, heartfelt romps through Celtic-music-made-their-own are harpist Kim Robertson and piper/whistler Joe McKenna. You might enjoy their recordings "Wood, Fire and Gold" and "The Irish Low Whistle" respectively.

5 out of 5 stars Superb!.......2003-04-13

If you like hammered dulcimer music with a hint of Smokey Mountain flavor, you can't do better! A touch of home I can play on the banks of the Mississippi.

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