the roving
jewel:
The Instruments & the songs
Paddy
Tutty
- vocals, fretted dulcimer, guitar, fiddle, and whistle
David Essig - bass, keyboard
1.
Katy Cruel - a song about an unhappy woman, frustrated
with her lot in life.
vocal and dulcimer
2. Southwind - an Irish song of longing for home.
vocal and dulcimer
bass
3. Polka Piquée / The Blind Harper - first,
a French tune, followed by a trickster tale of a blind man
stealing the king's horse (reputed to be a true story).
vocal, dulcimer, fiddle
4.
Annachie Gordon - a Scottish ballad about an unhappy
woman in an arranged marriage.
vocals and guitar
5.
Black Sara / The Black Nag - A song about the hard
life of the travelling people( written by Lorraine Lee Hammond),
followed by an English country dance.
vocal, dulcimer, fiddle
keyboard
6.
Who Liveth So Merry - a song about the simple pleasures
of the working people.
vocals, guitar, dulcimer
7.
Rolling Home Drunk - a lament (and plan for revenge)
of an abused woman.
vocal
8.
The World Turned Upside Down - Leon Rosselson's fine
song about the Diggers' struggle in the English Revolution.
vocals, guitar, dulcimer
9.
Bonny Portmore - a lament for the forest and fortress
of Portmore, an estate in Northern Ireland destroyed for the
charcoal-burning industry of the 18th Century.
vocal and guitar (This song was recorded on both original
albums: this is the first version.)
10.
Low Down in the Broom / Sally in the Garden - amazing!
-- a happy love song! Followed by an American fiddle
tune.
vocal, dulcimer, fiddle
11.
The Bonny Lass of Anglesey - the story of a dance competition
with the "Bonny Lass" as our heroine, triumphing over the
lords.
vocals, guitar, dulcimer, fiddle
12.
The Hare's Lament - an Irish song of a hunt, from the
hare's point of view.
vocals, dulcimer, fiddle, whistle
13.
The Lass of Loch Royal - an epic ballad encompassing
passion, adventure, jealousy and tragedy.
vocal and guitar
14.
The Dancers of Stanton Drew - A song explaining how a
stone circle in Somerset was created, with a fair measure
of morality thrown in.
vocals, dulcimer, fiddle
15.
(the hidden track) La Casa / Turlute d'Antonio
- two fiddle tunes from Quebec.
dulcimer, fiddle
Total
time: 69:29 minutes
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