Track Listing

1. The Countess Of Crawford/The Connoisseur/Miller's/Miss Charlotte Alston Steward's/Willie MacKenzie's - Fr. Angus Morris
2. Doctor MacLeod Of Alnick - Gordon MacLean
3. The Man In The Moon/Highlander Over The Border/Smash Th Window's/The Frost All Over - Marianne Jewell
4. Mr. Marshall's Favorite - Alex Francis Mackay
5. A Trip To Mabou Ridge/Mabou Coal Mines/Sir Reginald MacDonald/Miss Wedderburn - Gordon MacLean
6. Mo Mhathair/The Strong Man Of Drum/Knit The Pocky/Wedderburn House/Mr Menzies Of Culdare/Lord Drummond - Fr. Angus Morris
7. Christy Campbell/Anthony Murray/Bodach Fodair - Alex Francis Mackay
8. 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
9. Queen Elizabeth's/Lady Dorothea Stewart Murray's Wedding/Scotland Salute To The Home Guard - Alex Francis Mackay
10. A Tribute To Elizabeth Beaton/Traditional/Traditional/The Yetts Of Muckart/Tramper Down - Fr. Angus Morris
11. Srath-Spe/Struan Robert's/Bog An Lachan/Flora MacDonald/Traditional/Johnny Sullivan's/The Nine Pint Coggie/The $10 Fiddle - Marianne Jewell
12. The Rover's Return/The Irishman's Heart TO The Ladies/Cock O' The North - Gordon MacLean
13. The North Hunt Medley/The Stormont Lads/Cutty Sark/Lady Georgina Campbell - Alex Francis Mackay
14. Captain Campbell/Hoch Hey Johnny Lad/Lucy Campbell/Colonel McBain's Fancy/Andres Fulton's/The Smith's Burn - Fr. Angus Morris

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #310462 in Music
• Released on: 2002-09-24
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Top of the line fiddle music
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.