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Ron Kavana: Home Fire

Home Fire
Ron Kavana

Special Delivery (Topic Records) SPD/SPDCD 1043 (LP/CD, UK, 1991)

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Recorded and mixed at Ideal Sound Recorders;
Engineered by David Kenny

Musicians

Ron Kavana: lead vocals, guitar, mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, tenor banjo, 5-string banjo, bones, bodhrán;
Terry Woods: concertina, mandolin [3], backing vocals;
Tomás Lynch: uilleann pipes, tin whistle, backing vocals;
Mick Flynn: tin whistle [3], backing vocals;
Ashley Dreese: fiddle;
Kevin Rowsome: uilleann pipes [2, 8];
Alan Dunn: piano accordion;
Rod Stradling: button accordion;
Fran Byrne: bodhrán [2]

Tracks

Side 1

Home Fire / Beyond the Pale (3.05)
Johnny Go Easy (4.04)
Blind Sheehan (5.06)
Handcuffs / Gran’ Sheriff of Ballydaheen (3.20)
The Kilshannig Wager (3.32)
Lovely Cottage / Gold Ochra at Killarney Point-to-Points (3.30)
Sands of Time Lament (3.11)

Side 2

The Barleycorn / Kerry Polka / The Wren’s Polka (4.28)
Reconciliation (4.34)
The Cricklade Culchee / Down the Lane (3.47)
Blackwaterside (3.18)
Fermoy Regatta / Tom’s Tavern (2.45)
Young Ned of the Hill (4.59)

All tracks written by Ron Kavana except
Track 1b Tomás Lynch, Ashley Dreese;
Track 3 trad. arr. Ron Kavana;
Track 7 Jock Purdon, Ron Kavana;
Track 10b Rod Stradling;
Tracks 12-13 Ron Kavana, Terry Woods

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Ron Kavana: 40 Favourite Folk Songs

40 Favourite Folk Songs
Ron Kavana and Friends

Primo PRMCD 6111 (2 CD, UK, 2011)

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Produced and engineered by Ron Kavana on the Alias Mobile;
Post production by Ron Kavana and Paul Riley at Specific Sound

Musicians

Ron Kavana: vocals, guitar;
Anne Armstrong: vocals [2, 5, 7, 10, 12, 22, 27, 34, 36];
Kate O’Cualain: vocals [3, 37];
Tommy McCarthy: vocals [4, 32];
Mick Coyne: vocals [6, 26];
Mike ‘Mungo’ O’Connor: vocals [13, 30];
John Simpson: vocals [14, 40];
Mick Flynn: vocals [15, 23];
Niamh Parsons: vocals [16, 28];
Norman King: vocals [20, 35];
Dave Harper: guitar [3];
Chopper: cello [8];
Brian McNeill: violin [8];
Olly Blanchflower: double bass [8];
John Simpson: harmonica, accordion [14, 20];
Katriona Hennessy: flute [14, 20];
Dave Hennessy: melodeon [14, 20];
Norman King, Anne Armstrong: percussion [14, 20];
Dave Nagle: fiddle [14, 20];
Klaus Havemann, Sean O’ Driscoll: banjos [14, 20];
Pat Tanner: spoon [14, 20];
Miriam Kavana: fiddle [23];
Mick Coyne: pipes [27, 40];
Mickey Dunne: whistle [32];
John Reid: pipes [32]

Tracks

CD 1

[RK] The Minstrel Boy (Roud 13867) (3.24)
[AA, RK] Madam I’m a Darlin’ (2.49)
[KOC; RK] One Starry Night (4.21)
[TMcC] No Balls at All (Roud 10136) (3.11)
[AA] Wind & Rain (Roud 8; Child 10; G/D 2:213) (4.03)
[MC] My Flower of Magherally (Roud 3009; Henry H220) (2.56)
[AA, RK] Tree to Tree (3.10)
[RK] The Mountains of Mourne (Roud 18229) (7.18)
[RK] Wild Mountain Thyme (Roud 541; G/D 4:862) (3.57)
[AA, RK] Gobsheen Gombeens (2.04)
[RK] The Sloop John B (Roud 15634) (4.06)
[AA, RK] Lay Down Your Weary Tune (3.14)
[MOC, RK] McShane (3.43)
[RK, JS] The Water Is Wide (Roud 87; Child 204) / O’Donnell Abu (5.31)
[MF] Captain Weatherbourne’s Courtship (Roud 36; Child 46; G/D 4:842; Henry H681) (4.28)
[RK, NP] Muldoon, the Solid Man (Roud 3355) (5.06)
[RK] Goodnight Irene (Roud 11681) (4.29)
[RK] So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Ya (Roud 15161) (3.11)
[RK] Childhood’s End (3.50)
[NK] Puttin’ on the Style (Roud 3767) (3.58)

CD 2

[RK] The Night Visit (Roud 22568; G/D 4:783) (4.15)
[AA, RK] The Kissing Song (2.52)
[MF] The Brown & Yellow Ale (Roud 41143) (3.26)
[AA] Where Wild Roses Grow (3.32)
[RK] I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (5.17)
[MC] There Was a Man (Roud 2571) (2.46)
[AA, RK] The Galway Shawl (Roud 2737; Henry H652) (5.27)
[RK, NP] Reconciliation (4.26)
[RK] The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (2.32)
[MOC] The Curragh of Kildare (Roud 583; G/D 6:1104) (4.10)
[RK] Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (4.09)
[TMcC] The Wedding (4.27)
[RK] She Moved Through the Fair (Roud 861; Henry H141) (5.49)
[AA, RK] My Father’s a Hedger & Ditcher (Roud 846; G/D 7:1385) / Love Will Ya Marry Me? (4.35)
[NK] I’ll Tell Me Ma (Roud 2649; Henry H48e) (2.24)
[AA, RK] Bold Doherty (Roud 2992) (3.15)
[KOC] As I Roved Out (Roud 277; Laws O17; G/D 4:791; Henry H152) (3.39)
[RK] The Spanish Lady (Roud 542; G/D 4:746; Henry H532) (3.23)
[RK] The Old Main Drag (2.39)
[RK, JS] Auld Lang Syne (Roud 13892) (4.32)

All tracks trad. except
Track 8 words Percy French;
Track 12 Bob Dylan;
Track 17 Huddie ‘Lead Belly’ Ledbetter;
Track 18 Woddy Guthrie;
Track 19 Dick Gaughan;
Track 25 Richard Thompson;
Track 28 Ron Kavana;
Track 29 Ewan MacColl;
Track 31 Sandy Denny;
Track 39 Shane MacGowan

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