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Brian McNeill: Monksgate

Monksgate (Greentrax CDTRAX 062)

Monksgate
Traditional Music from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Northumbria
Brian McNeill

Free Reed Records FRR 027 (LP, UK, not issued);
Excalibur BUR801 (LP, France, 1978);
Greentrax Recordings CDTRAX 062 (CD, UK, 1992)

This recording was originally made for Free Reed but due to the label's folding the album was released on a French LP and later on Greentrax.

Recorded by Calum Malcom at Castle Sound & Graighall Studios, Edinburgh, 1977;
Produced by Brian McNeill;
Executive producer: Neil Wayne;
Cover painting by Dorothea Patterson

Musicians

Brian McNeill, cittern, mandolin, concertina, fiddle, viola;
Angus McGregor, Northumbrian pipes;
Neil Evans, guitar;
Nan Trench, flute;
John Gahagan, whistle;
Alan Reid, pedal organ;
Pat Knowles, electric piano;
Jamie Knowles, pedal organ;
Jamie McMenemy, guitarra portuguesa;
Sandy Stanage, guitar;
Dave Munro, Uilleann pipes

Tracks

  1. Queen of Sluts / Willie Is a Bonny Lad (3.37)
  2. The Flowers of the Thorn (3.48)
  3. The Oyster Girl / The Centenary / Shane's Fancy (3.24)
  4. Master Crowley's Reel / Bobby Casey's Reel (3.18)
  5. The Duke of Fife's Welcome to Deeside / Belladrum House / The Witch of the Wave (3.27)
  6. Rowley Burn / Roxburgh Castle (3.30)
  7. The Bag of Potatoes / The Little Pig Lamenting the Empty Trough / Brian O'Laimhin (3.06)
  8. Monksgate (3.32)
  9. The Hag at the Spinning Wheel (2.22)
  10. The Eclipse / The Mathematician (2.47)
  11. Modest Miss France / The Marchioness of Huntly / Miss Shepherd / Pretty Peg (3.40)

All tracks trad. except
Track 4b Robert Casey;
Tracks 5a, 11b, 12c James Scott Skinner;
Track 6a J. Foster Charlton;
Track 7 Turleigh O'Carolan;
Track 12a Brian McNeill;
Track 12b William Marshall