Name: Songlines
Brand: Shanachie
SKU: 64578
Price: 15.24 USD
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Songlines

Rating

Album: Songlines
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Roger the Miller	More Info...	0:04
2)	She Is Like The Swallow	More Info...	0:03
3)	Ballad of Accounting	More Info...	0:03
4)	Shamrock Shore	More Info...	0:05
5)	Martinmas Time	More Info...	0:04
6)	An Buachaillín Bán	More Info...	0:02
7)	The Creggan White Hare	More Info...	0:04
8)	The Song of Wandering Aengus	More Info...	0:04
9)	One, I Love	More Info...	0:04
10)	The World Turned Upside Down (The Diggers' Song)	More Info...	0:02
11)	The Labouring Man's Daughter	More Info...	0:05

Album: Songlines
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Roger the Miller	More Info...	0:04
2)	She Is Like The Swallow	More Info...	0:03
3)	Ballad of Accounting	More Info...	0:03
4)	Shamrock Shore	More Info...	0:05
5)	Martinmas Time	More Info...	0:04
6)	An Buachaillín Bán	More Info...	0:02
7)	The Creggan White Hare	More Info...	0:04
8)	The Song of Wandering Aengus	More Info...	0:04
9)	One, I Love	More Info...	0:04
10)	The World Turned Upside Down (The Diggers' Song)	More Info...	0:02
11)	The Labouring Man's Daughter	More Info...	0:05

Performer Notes

Personnel: John Anthony (guitar, drums, bass drum, bodhran, hi-hat, djembe, timpani, tom tom, percussion); John Doyle (guitar); Samus Egan (mandolin, flute, tin whistle, bodhran); Winifred Horan (violin); Michael Aharon (cello, piano, synthesizer, bass guitar, fretless bass, dumbek); Steve Holloway (snare drum); Daryl Burgess (djembe).
Liner Note Author: Earle Hitchner.
Recording information: Sigma Sound, Philadelphia, PA.
Photographer: Colm Henry.
Unknown Contributor Roles: John Anthony; John Doyle .
Arrangers: John Anthony; Karan Casey; Michael Aharon; Samus Egan; Winifred Horan; John Doyle .
Karan Casey sings for Solas, one of the hottest young Irish folk bands of the last five years. Her solo debut is a wonderful album, a program consisting primarily of traditional material presented with minimal arrangements that show off her crystalline voice to best advantage. The instrumentation is not always strictly traditional -- that's an electric guitar providing cloudlike washes of chordal harmony on "She Is Like the Swallow" -- but the overall feel is very much in the folk idiom. Despite the intrinsic lightness of her voice, Casey manages to deliver a blistering rendition of Ewan MacColl's acerbic "Ballad of Accounting," and she sings about the jilted "Roger the Miller" with deceptive sweetness. She also brings new energy and insight into such chestnuts as "Shamrock Shore" and "One, I Love." Her excellent backing musicians include members of Solas, notably flutist Seamus Egan, who also provides excellent production. ~ Rick Anderson