Name: Cowboy Celtic
Brand: Red House Records
SKU: 180475
Price: 14.75 USD
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Cowboy Celtic

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Album: Cowboy Celtic
#	Song Title		Time
1)	The Trail To Mexico/In The Top Room/The Banshee	More Info...	0:03
2)	Shenandoah	More Info...	0:03
3)	Little Joe, the Wrangler	More Info...	0:02
4)	The Lily of the West	More Info...	0:04
5)	Garry Owen/In The Top Room/The Banshee	More Info...	0:03
6)	Lady in Green	More Info...	0:03
7)	The Colorado Trail	More Info...	0:02
8)	I'd Like To Be In Texas When They Round Up In The Spring/The	More Info...	0:03
9)	Tempting The Salmon To Come To The Fly	More Info...	0:03
10)	Down By The Brazos	More Info...	0:04
11)	Goodby, Old Paint/Leavin' Cheyenne/The Strawberry Roan/Whoop	More Info...	0:05
12)	The Gal I Left Behind Me	More Info...	0:03
13)	Annie Laurie	More Info...	0:04

Album: Cowboy Celtic
#	Song Title		Time
1)	The Trail To Mexico/In The Top Room/The Banshee	More Info...	0:03
2)	Shenandoah	More Info...	0:03
3)	Little Joe, the Wrangler	More Info...	0:02
4)	The Lily of the West	More Info...	0:04
5)	Garry Owen/In The Top Room/The Banshee	More Info...	0:03
6)	Lady in Green	More Info...	0:03
7)	The Colorado Trail	More Info...	0:02
8)	I'd Like To Be In Texas When They Round Up In The Spring/The	More Info...	0:03
9)	Tempting The Salmon To Come To The Fly	More Info...	0:03
10)	Down By The Brazos	More Info...	0:04
11)	Goodby, Old Paint/Leavin' Cheyenne/The Strawberry Roan/Whoop	More Info...	0:05
12)	The Gal I Left Behind Me	More Info...	0:03
13)	Annie Laurie	More Info...	0:04

Performer Notes

featuring The McDades.
Personnel: David Wilkie (mandolin, mandola, mandocello, guitar, tenor guitar, vocals); Shannon Johnson (violin); Terry McDade (Celtic harp); Jeremiah McDade (tin whistle, bodhran, Uilleann pipes); Stewart MacDougall (keyboard bass); Solon McDade (fretless bass, acoustic bass).
Recorded at Beta Sound Recorders, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Canadian mandolin player David Wilkie, accompanied by the string band of Terry and Jeremiah McDade brothers and violinist Shannon Johnson, explores the connection between traditional Celtic music and cowboy music on this largely instrumental disc. With a few original tunes blended in, the tracks are mostly Scottish and Irish melodies that made their way to America where they acquired Western associations and titles like "Shenandoah" and "The Colorado Trail." In Wilkie and the McDades' arrangements, they are returned to their Celtic origins, although they remain recognizable as Western songs. The album has a melancholy tone occasionally enlivened by fast picking and by Wilkie's humorous imagining of history in "Custer Died a-Runnin'," one of his two vocals along with another of his originals, "Tempting the Salmon to Come to the Fly." Wilkie makes his point about the connection between Celtic music and cowboys in a way that will please fans of both genres. ~ William Ruhlmann