> Folk Music > Records > Mad Pudding: Grand Hotel

Mad Pudding: Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel Mad Pudding Sliced Bread Records (CD, USA) Fellside Recordings FECD149 (CD, UK, 1999)

Produced by Johnny Cunningham;
Recorded and mixed by Daniel Protheroe at Sage Arts Studio, Washington;
Assistant engineer Zak Dewey;
Mastered at Masterwork Recording Inc., Philadelphia by Pete Humphries, assisted by Larry Cohen;
Cover photo: City of Vancouver Archives;
Design and layout Prototype Design

Musicians

Andy Hillhouse: guitar, lead vocals [1, 3, 5, 12];
Amy Stephen: accordion, penny whistle, lead vocals [8, 10];
Boris Favre: bass, piano, feet, lead vocals [6];
Allan Dionne: drums, percussion, marimba, lead vocals [9];
Cam Wilson: fiddle [2-3, 5-6, 8-13];
Pierre Schryer: fiddle [4-5, 7, 12]

with
John Korsrud: trumpet [9];
Ramin Bahrami: tombek (trad. Persion drum) [11]

Tracks

1. Grand Hotel (2.07)
2. Hoedown (4.42)
3. Michael Freeman (4.23)
4. Reel di Janeiro: Da Shaalds o Foula / Won It at Bingo / Easy Club / Entra E Sai (9.16)
5. The Weaver (3.47)
6. Léon Accordéon (5.11)
7. The Egmonster: The Egmonster / Ferry to Orkney / My Brother’s Letter (5.44)
8. Cool Fount of Love (4.08)
9. Celtic Funk Stew: Janine’s Reel / Soapy Water (6.08)
10. First We Take Manhattan (3.44)
11. Vahideh’s Fine Shoes (3.58)
12. Lonesome Scenes of Winter (5.10)
13. Robika (2.59)

Tracks 1, 5, 12 trad. Canadian;
Track 2 Aaron Copland;
Tracks 3, 4b, 7a Andy Hillhouse;
Track 4a trad. Shetland;
Track 4c Jim Sutherland;
Track 4d Heleno Dos Oito Baixos;
Track 6 Boris Favre;
Tracks 7b, 11 Amy Stephen;
Track 7c Vincent MacLellan;
Track 8 words anon., music Amy Stephen;
Track 9a trad.;
Track 9b Cam Wilson, Richard Ernst;
Track 10 Leonard Cohen;
Track 13 Allan Dionne