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Great Big Sea
A pure force of nature, Great Big Sea's blend of instruments like mandolin, bodhran, fiddle, and concertina, along with their vocal harmonies, revels in the melodies they create and the Newfoundland tunes they love.
Collection Contents
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Run Runaway | 2:51 |
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| 2 |
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Goin' Up | 3:11 |
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Fast As I Can | 4:11 |
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Mari-Mac | 2:33 |
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Dancing With Mrs. White | 2:07 |
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Something To It | 2:20 |
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Buying Time | 2:55 |
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Lukey | 3:10 |
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The Old Black Rum | 2:29 |
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| 10 |
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The Chemical Worker's Song (Process Man) | 2:36 |
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| 11 |
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Wave Over Wave | 3:49 |
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| 12 |
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Billy Peddle | 2:49 |
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| 13 |
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Nothing Out Of Nothing | 2:38 |
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The Jolly Butcher | 3:13 |
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Rant & Roar | 2:43 |
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SONG NOTES
We first heard MARI-MAC from Ralph O'Brien. It has a Scot's origin, though it came to St. John's from Ireland. Accelerating the song is a local trick. Bawling our heads off is a Great Big Sea trick. The two tunes from MRS. MINNIE WHITE's recent collection of dance music are actually three tunes, "Green Grow The Rushes 'O" and two dance tunes associated with Newfoundland Mi'kmawq, which we glued together for the occasion. LUKEY is more commonly known in Newfoundland as "Lukey's Boat". It is from the "ironic detachment" school of local songs. BILLY PEDDLE's burst of mouth music is prefaced by a Newfoundland take on an Irish jig which we have dubbed "The Sook", the Newfoundland term for a complainer or a whiner. Jeannie Hewson's version of THE JOLLY BUTCHER eventually led to ours, though it somehow picked up a new chorus along the way. Gerald S. Doyle's groundbreaking folk-song collections of the early part of this century gave us a tune called "The Ryans & The Pittmans". Despite numerous reprints of this title, it is universally known in Newfoundland as RANT & ROAR. The communities listed in the last verse are now ghost-towns, having been resettled in the 1960's.
GREAT BIG SEA ARE
Alan Doyle: vocals, guitar, bouzouki, mandolin
San McCann: vocals, guitar, bodhran, tin whistle, snare drum
Darrell Power: vocals, bass
Bob Hallett: vocals, button accordion, tin whistle, fiddle, mandolin, mandola
ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS
Oliver Schroer: violins
Rick Lazar: percussion
Al Cross: drums and percussion
Danny Greenspoon: guitar
Recorded at The Battery and at The Nickel in St. Johns, Newfoundland. Additional recording at The Sound Hole in Toronto.