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Alba
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Alba Rubber Records RUB021 (LP, UK, 1978) |
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
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All tracks trad. arr. Alba except
Track 10 words Seosamh MacCathmhaoil (Joseph Campbell), music trad. coll. Herbert Hughes (1904)
> Folk Music > Records > Tony Cuffe: When First I Went to Caledonia
Tony Cuffe: When First I Went to Caledonia
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When First I Went to Caledonia Iona Records IR 011 (LP, UK, 1988) |
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
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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
> Folk Music > Records > Tony Cuffe: Sae Will We Yet
Tony Cuffe: Sae Will We Yet
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Sae Will We Yet Greentrax Recordings CDTRAX243 (CD, UK, 2003) |
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
- Tail Toddle (Roud 11275; G/D 8:1716) (3.50)
- Angus G. McLeod / The Ewie wi the Crookit Horn (Roud 2140) (4.44)
- Cairn o' Mount (Roud 3794; G/D 5:1042) (4.46)
- The Girl That Broke My Heart / Mary McMahon (4.16)
- Kelvin's Purling Stream (Roud 3947) (4.23)
- Rachel Rae (4.43)
- The Bonny Lassie (Roud 277; Laws O17; G/D 4:791; Henry H152) (3.57)
- The Burning of the Piper's Hut (4.41)
- The Road to Drumleman (3.48)
- Caller Herrin' (Roud 18353) (1.40)
- The Water o Wearie's Well (Roud 5757) (7.35)
- Hector the Hero / The Marquis of Huntly's Highland Fling (4.18)
- 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 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
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Groups with Tony Cuffe
Jock Tamsons's Bairns,
Jock Tamsons's Bairns,
LP, Temple TP 002, 1980
Ossian,
Dove Across the Water,
LP/CD, Iona IR/IRCD 004, 1982/1990
Ossian,
Borders,
LP/CD, Iona IR/IRCD 007, 1984
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Other records with Tony Cuffe
Various Artists,
The Complete Songs of Robert Burns Volume 1,
CD, Linn CKD 047, 1996
Various Artists,
The Complete Songs of Robert Burns Volume 2,
CD, Linn CKD 052, 1996
Various Artists,
The Clear Stream,
CD, Greentrax CDTRAX268, 2004
Various Artists,
Favourite Scottish Songs
(Celtic Collections Volume 16),
CD, Greentrax CDGMP8016, 2014