IC B. (icberry)
Reviewed on 11/11/2018...
An excellent compilation from Warner Music Canada, featuring Canadian artists in the Celtic tradition. The mood of the collection is "seaward-looking" but this is a diverse and subtle project that covers a ...great big sea. Note especially the joyful, raw call-and-response holler of "General Taylor" that starts things out with a bang, contrasted with a heartrending cover of Tom Waits' "Briar and the Rose" that closes the collection with dignity. Very nicely done.
Tracklisting:
1. Great Big Sea: General Taylor (Trad.)
2. J.P. Cormier : Kelly's Mountain (J.P. Cormier)
3. Celtic Connection: Last Shanty (Tom Lewis)
4. Barra MacNeils : Misty Moisty Morning (Trad.)
5. The Rankin Family: North Country (Jimmy Rankin)
6. Rawlins Cross: Macphersons Lament (Trad.)
7. Rita MacNeil: Working Man (Rita MacNeil)
8. Ashley MacIsaac : Sleepy Maggie (Mary Jane Lamond / Ashley MacIsaac / Peter Prilesnick / Gordie Sampson)
9. The Irish Descendants : Barrett's Privateers (Stan Rogers)
10. Ron Hynes : Sonny's Dream (Ron Hynes)
11. Natalie MacMaster : Drunken Piper (Jerry Holland)
12. Shanneygannock : Whiskey In The Jar (Trad.)
13. The Fables : Heave Away (Trad.)
14. Lennie Gallant : Which Way Does The River Run? (Lennie Gallant)
15. The Cottars : Briar & The Rose (Tom Waits)