A bit of 18th century Scots reggae, our version of one of Robert Burns' big hits: seems he almost wound up emigrating to Jamaica, before Johnson's Musical Museum took off & made his name...

Green Grow the Rushes - Swift Years

From our Démo cd many's the year ago (2002?) but posted today in celebration of the defeat of the bigot and predator Roy Moore in the Alabama election...

04 Alabama Jubilee

Belle composition de Lawrence Lepage, artiste gaspésien avec qui Bob s'est produit sur scène et sur disque pendant les années 70 (utilisé ave permission)

15 Les chemins sont bouchés

pièce +/- titre de notre album, No Sorrow For Me

06 Qu'importe le chagrin

Original song from No Sorrow For Me album, written by Patrick Hutchinson; at a campsite somewhere in Saskatchewan, when he realized he didn't have a birthday present for his love. 

11 Water & Stone

Two original instrumentals, from the No Sorrow For Me album: a lament in honour of various friends we'll never see again; and a reel, dedicated to our friend & comrade Belfast Andi's three daughters, Saoirse, Aoife & Aine. Andi plays bodhrán here, and John Wiens guests on violin. 

17 Absent Friends, The Misses MacGabhann

premier toune de notre avant-dernier album, Joe's Report from the Afterlife

01 The Exile (Swift Years)

Hungarian poem by Lázló Nagy, music Ferenc Szabõ

Adjon az Isten

Blewgrass taster from our short-attention-span selection

Nashville Blues

A gorgeous tune by Gaspesian songwriter Lawrence Lepage, avec qui Bob s'est produit dans les temps...

Mon Vieux François

A classic Russian chestnut, given a good roasting

Danse Lunaire

18-stringed worldbilly tripod, situé à Montréal
(Québec, Canada, Turtle Island, Gaia)
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