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Opening Moves (Import) (CD)

By: Battlefield Band (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Opening Moves (Import) (CD) Album By Battlefield Band (Artist)
1   Silver Spear/Humours Of Tulla  
2   Shipyard Apprentice  
3   Cruel Brother  
4   Ge Do Theid Mi Do M'leabradh  
5   Battle Of Harlaw  
6   Jenny Nettles/Grays Of Tongside  
7   Tae The Beggin  
8   Tamosher  
9   Blackbird And The Thrush/Moray Club  
10   Lang Johnnie More  
11   Brown Milkmaid/Dunnottar Castle  
12   Maid Of Glengarrysdale  
13   Disused Railways  
14   Lady Leroy  
15   Miss Drummond Of Perth/Fiddler's Joy  
16   Traditional Reel/Shetland Fiddler  
17   My Last Farewell To Stirling/Cuidich'n Right  
18   I Hae Laid A Herrin' In Salt/My Wife's A Wanton Wee Thing  
19   Banks Of The Allan  
20   Battle Of Falkirk Muir  
21   Joe McGann's Fiddle/Centre's Bonnet  
 

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Battlefield Band: Jenny Clark (vocals, guitar, cittern, dulcimer, whistle); Duncan MacGillvray (vocals, guitar, Highland pipes, mouth organ, whistle); Pat Kilbride (vocals, guitar, bodhran, cittern); Brian MacNeill (vocals, banjo, bouzouki, cittern, mandolin, fiddle, viola, concertina); Jamie McMenemy (vocals, bouzouki, cittern, guitarra, mandolin, whistle); John Gahagan (concertina, whistle).
OPENING MOVES is a fine sampler of the Battlefield Band's earliest material. The original albums from which these songs have been culled--THE BATTLEFIELD BAND (1977), AT THE FRONT (1978), and STAND EASY (1979)--were long available only on vinyl (STAND EASY has since been re-released on CD). While featuring variations in the group's personnel, the compilation retains the Band's top-notch musicianship and sense of musical tradition.
The contributions of Jamie McMenemy (cittern, mandolin, whistles, bouzouki and vocals), and Irish guitarist, vocalist, and bodhran player Pat Kilbride are especially notable on story-ballads such as "The Shipyard Apprentice" and "The Lady Leroy." Elsewhere, Scottish reels and Irish jigs are given sprightly, energetic treatments, as on "Silver Spear/Humours of Tulla," and the trio of dance themes that includes "My Wife's a Wanton Wee Thing." Also impressive here (in addition to the musicianship of founders Brian MacNeill and Alan Reid, whose work can be heard on later Battlefield efforts) are John Gahagan's tin whistle playing and Duncan MacGillvray's moving Highland pipes. Taken together, these 17 cuts provide an overview of the group's early oeuvre, showing why they became one of the mainstays of Scotland's progressive folk scene.

Title Note

Battlefield Band: Jenny Clark (vocals, guitar, cittern, dulcimer, whistle); Duncan MacGillvray (vocals, guitar, Highland pipes, mouth organ, whistle); Pat Kilbride (vocals, guitar, bodhran, cittern); Brian MacNeill (vocals, banjo, bouzouki, cittern, mandolin, fiddle, viola, concertina); Jamie McMenemy (vocals, bouzouki, cittern, guitarra, mandolin, whistle); John Gahagan (concertina, whistle).

OPENING MOVES is a fine sampler of the Battlefield Band's earliest material. The original albums from which these songs have been culled--THE BATTLEFIELD BAND (1977), AT THE FRONT (1978), and STAND EASY (1979)--were long available only on vinyl (STAND EASY has since been re-released on CD). While featuring variations in the group's personnel, the compilation retains the Band's top-notch musicianship and sense of musical tradition.

The contributions of Jamie McMenemy (cittern, mandolin, whistles, bouzouki and vocals), and Irish guitarist, vocalist, and bodhran player Pat Kilbride are especially notable on story-ballads such as "The Shipyard Apprentice" and "The Lady Leroy." Elsewhere, Scottish reels and Irish jigs are given sprightly, energetic treatments, as on "Silver Spear/Humours of Tulla," and the trio of dance themes that includes "My Wife's a Wanton Wee Thing." Also impressive here (in addition to the musicianship of founders Brian MacNeill and Alan Reid, whose work can be heard on later Battlefield efforts) are John Gahagan's tin whistle playing and Duncan MacGillvray's moving Highland pipes. Taken together, these 17 cuts provide an overview of the group's early oeuvre, showing why they became one of the mainstays of Scotland's progressive folk scene.

Album Description

OPENING MOVES is a fine sampler of the Battlefield Band's earliest material. The original albums from which these songs have been culled--THE BATTLEFIELD BAND (1977), AT THE FRONT (1978), and STAND EASY (1979)--were long available only on vinyl (STAND EASY has since been re-released on CD). While featuring variations in the group's personnel, the compilation retains the Band's top-notch musicianship and sense of musical tradition.
The contributions of Jamie McMenemy (cittern, mandolin, whistles, bouzouki and vocals), and Irish guitarist, vocalist, and bodhran player Pat Kilbride are especially notable on story-ballads such as "The Shipyard Apprentice" and "The Lady Leroy". Elsewhere, Scottish reels and Irish jigs are given sprightly, energetic treatments, as on "Silver Spear/Humours of Tulla", and the trio of dance themes that includes "My Wife's a Wanton Wee Thing". Also impressive here (in addition to the musicianship of founders Brian MacNeill and Alan Reid, whose work can be heard on later Battlefield efforts) are John Gahagan's tin whistle playing and Duncan MacGillvray's moving Highland pipes. Taken together, these 17 cuts provide an overview of the group's early oeuvre, showing why they became one of the mainstays of Scotland's progressive folk scene.

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