''All the Way from Tuam'' is the second studio album by Irish rock band

The Saw Doctors The Saw Doctors are an Irish rock band. Formed in 1986 in Tuam, County Galway, they have achieved eighteen Top 30 singles in the Republic of Ireland including three number ones. Their first number one, "I Useta Lover," topped the Irish charts fo ...

. The CD was released on The Saw Doctors' own record label, Shamtown Records and has the catalogue number of SAWDOC002CD. It is named after the band's home town,

Tuam Tuam ( ; ga, Tuaim , meaning 'mound' or 'burial-place') is a town in Ireland and the second-largest settlement in County Galway. It is west of the midlands of Ireland, about north of Galway city. Humans have lived in the area since the Bron ...

Track listing

All songs written by

Leo Moran Leo Moran (born 9 November 1964 in Tuam, Galway) is best known as lead guitarist and sometimes vocalist in the Irish folk rock band The Saw Doctors. Moran studied French and Sociology at University College Galway. He later trained as a secondary ...

and

Davy Carton Davy Carton (born 10 April 1959) is a singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist from Tuam, County Galway, in the Republic of Ireland. He is best known as a core member of the Saw Doctors, the folk-rock band he co-founded with Leo Moran and others ...

except where indicated. #" The Green and Red of Mayo" (Jarir Al-Majar, Moran, Carton) #"You Got Me On the Run" #"Pied Piper" #"Me Heart Is Livin' in the Sixties Still" (Moran, Pearse Doherty, Carton, John Donnelly) #"Hay Wrap" (Moran, Carton, Doherty, Donnelly, John Burke) #"Wake Up Sleeping" #"Midnight Express" (Carton) #"Broke My Heart" #"Exhilarating Sadness" #"All the Way from Tuam" #"F.C.A." #"Music I Love" (Moran, Carton, Doherty, Donnelly) #"Yvonne" (Moran, Doherty, Carton, Donnelly) #"Never Mind the Strangers"

Personnel

Band

: vocals, guitar *

: guitar, backing vocals *John Donnelly: drums, percussion, vocals *Pearse Doherty: bass guitar, vocals *Tony Lambert:

keyboards Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware Music * Musi ...

, guitar,

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

, vocals *John Burke:

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

, guitar, vocals

Guest musicians

*James Barton: Violin *Sharon McKinley: Cello *Robin Stowell: Violin *

Anthony Thistlethwaite Anthony "Anto" Thistlethwaite (born 31 August 1955, Lutterworth, Leicestershire, England) is a British multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member (with guitarist Mike Scott) of the folk rock group, The Waterboys and later as a long ...

: Saxophone *Glenn Thompson: Percussion *Philip Tomkins: Viola *Greg Haver: Percussion *Geoff York: Viola

External links

The Saw Doctors Official Website
The Saw Doctors albums 1992 albums {{1990s-rock-album-stub