Produced by Geoff Heslop;
Recorded by Mickey Sweeney at Impulse Sound Studio, Newcastle;
Sleeve photography by David Ewles;
Logo by Jim Divers

Musicians

Alan McLeod: Highland bagpipes, bodhrán;
Tony Cuffe: guitar, lyre, whistle, vocals;
Sean O’Rourke: vocals, bouzouki, flute, whistle;
Mike Ward: fiddle, mandolin, guitar, vocals

Tracks

Side 1

1. Glen Rinnes / The Jig of Slurs
2. The Overgate (Roud 866)
3. King’s Favourite
4. Van Diemen’s Land (Roud 519; Laws L18; G/D 2:252)
5. The Mermaid’s Song / John Murray of Lochee / Pipe Major George Allen

Side 2

6. The Blacksmith’s Reel / The Star of Munster
7. Fear Ah Bhata (Roud 4356; Henry H834)
8. Drummond Castle / Paddy’s Leather Breeches
9. Captain Ward (Roud 224; Child 287; G/D 1:39)
10. The Gartan Mother’s Lullaby
11. The Geese in the Bog / Dr. McInnes’ Fancy

All tracks trad. arr. Alba except
Track 10 words Seosamh MacCathmhaoil (Joseph Campbell), music trad. coll. Herbert Hughes (1904)

Produced by Tony Cuffe;
Recorded at Pier House Studios, Edinburgh;
Engineered by Pete Haigh and Ian Beveridge;
Photographs by Robert Burns;
Sleeve design by Alasdair Campbell

Musicians

Tony Cuffe: vocals, acoustic guitar, tenor guitar, tiple, whistle, bass whistle, harmonium, synthesiser

Tracks

Side 1

1. When First I Went to Caledonia (4.31)
2. Miss Wharton Duff / The Mare (3.08)
3. The Iron Horse (Roud 5834; G/D 2:291) (3.41)
4. Caledonia (Roud 5543; G/D 2:227) (4.53)
5. Dr. McInnes’ Fancy / Jim Tweedie’s Sea Legs (3.26)

Side 2

6. The Buchan Turnpike (Roud 5961; G/D 3:460) (5.15)
7. The Lass o’ Patie’s Mill (Roud 8651) (2.23)
8. The Weary Pund o’ Tow (Roud 435; G/D 8:1867) (2.57)
9. Paddy Kelly’s / The Humours of Tulla (2.09)
10. Otterburn (Roud 3293; Child 161) (5.30)
11. The Scalloway Lasses / Miss Forrester (3.13)

Tracks 1, 3, 6, 10 trad.;
Track 2a William Marshall;
Track 4 words trad., music Tony Cuffe;
Track 5a Pipe Major Donald McLeod;
Track 5b J. Allan Macgee;
Track 8 Robert Burns

Comprising mainly previously unreleased material gathered from surviving private, concert and studio recordings, this album has at its heart tracks from a projected solo album of Scottish and Irish love songs. Tony worked on these recordings at home in Arlington throughout 2001 for as long as his health would allow, and the resulting takes were completed and mixed in Edinburgh in accordance with his instructions.

Executive producer Stuart Eydmann;
Track 1 recorded by Danny Littwin at New York City, 2000;
Tracks 2, 9 recorded at Gaelic Roots, Boston College, Boston, Mass., 1997;
Tracks 3-7, 10-12 recorded in Arlington, Mass., 2001;
Track 8 recorded by Doc Russell at The Swannanoa Gathering, Norch Carolina, 1995;
Track 13 recorded by Robin Mortin at Temple Records, Midlothian, Scotland, 1980;
Additional recording, post production and mastering by Jim Sutherland with engineer Nik Kinloch at Kinky, Edinburgh;
Sleeve design by John Slavin;
Track notes and transcriptions by Stuart Eydmann;
Photographs by Robert Burns, Glasgow, January 1988

Musicians

Tony Cuffe: vocals [1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13], guitar [1-7, 9-13], Celtic harp [6, 8, 11], harmonium [11];
Jerry O’Sullivan: uilleann pipes [1], whistle [1];
Pat O’Gorman: flute [1];
John Skelton: bodhrán [1];
Laurel Martin: fiddle [5-6, 11];
Derek Hoy: fiddle [6, 11];
Jenny Clark: chorus [7];
Billy Jackson: Celtic harp [8];
Norman Chalmers: whistle [11];
Jock Tamson’s Bairns (John Croall, Rod Paterson, Adam Jack: vocals, Ian Hardie: fiddle, Jack Evans: melodeon) [13]

Tracks

1. Tail Toddle (Roud 11275; G/D 8:1716) (3.50)
2. Angus G. McLeod slow air / The Ewie Wi the Crookit Horn (Roud 2140) strathspey (4.44)
3. Cairn o’ Mount (Roud 3794; G/D 5:1042) (4.46)
4. The Girl That Broke My Heart / Mary McMahon reels (4.16)
5. Kelvin’s Purling Stream (Roud 3947) (4.23)
6. Rachel Rae (4.43)
7. The Bonny Lassie (3.57)
8. The Burning of the Piper’s Hut bagpipe march (4.41)
9. The Road to Drumleman (3.48)
10. Caller Herrin’ (Roud 18353) (1.40)
11. The Water o Wearie’s Well (Roud 21; Child 4; G/D 2:225; Henry H163) (7.35)
12. Hector the Hero slow air / The Marquis of Huntly’s Highland Fling strathspey (4.18)
13. Sae Will We Yet (Roud 5611; G/D 3:552) (4.54)

All tracks trad. except
Track 2a Donald MacLeod;
Track 3 words Alexander Balfour, music Tony Cuffe;
Track 7 Tony Cuffe;
Track 9 words Willie Mitchell, music Tony Cuffe;
Track 10 Nathaniel Gow;
Track 12a James Scott Skinner;
Track 12b George Jenkins;
Track 13 words Walter Watson, music Tony Cuffe