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This is the record of the month and one of the records of the year. While its essential for every musician to be able to lilt, its rare to find a lilter whos good enough to stand up and entertain an audience, and S?amus, at the age of seventy, could keep a crowd going all night. Hes also a fine singer. As a celebration of a local tradition, the album includes archive tracks of Seamus lilting in duet with his mother, some younger lilters and one of the finest young singers of songs Ive heard in years, Aoife Murray.
1. Jig: Humours of Ballyloughlin
2. Reels: Crooked Road / The Ladies' Pantalettes
3. Reel: Bill McEvoy's Reel
4. Jigs: Pat Burke's / Fraher's
5. Song: May Morning Dew
6. Jig: Ward's
7. Reels: The Penny Candle / The Fair-Haired Boy
8. Hornpipes: Poll Ha'penny / Garrai na Sailog
9. Jig: Sport
10. Song: Shores of Lough Bran
11. Reels: The Broken Pledge / The Maid of Mitchelstown
12. Jigs: The Bridge over the River Maine / The Hag at the Churn
13. Hornpipes: The Lone Bush / The Wicklow
14. Reel: Paddy Taylor's
15. Song: My Native Land
16. Slip Jig: Whinny Hills of Leitrim
17. Jig: McIntyre's Fancy
18. Reel: The Baltimore Salute
19. Song: Long Expected Comes at Last
20. Set Dance: Fiddler Round the Fairy Tree
21. Jig: Woods of Old Limerick
22. Reel: Miss McCloud's
23. Song: When Two Lovers Meet
24. Set Dance: St. Sinchell's Well
25. Jig: Richard Dwyer's
26. Reel: Gooseberry Bush
27. Jig: Bill Harte's
28. Hornpipe: New Century
29. Reel: Boys of 49
30. Jig: Paddy Taylor's
31. Song: Edward Boyle
32. Spoken: If They're Minded
33. Interview by Martin Donohoe
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