''Lowlands'' is an album by
Irish songwriter, and
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Susan McKeown
Susan McKeown (born February 6, 1967) is an Irish folk singer, songwriter, arranger and producer.
Early years
Susan McKeown was born on February 6, 1967 in Terenure, Dublin, Ireland. She briefly attended the Municipal College of Music, Chatham ...
, released in 2000.
The tracks on this album present an array of styles, including African, Appalachian, Middle Eastern and Irish. "Lord Baker" is often heard as fragment of a ballad, but here McKeown has included the full story, making this the longest track on the album. The Scots songs "The Dark Haired Girl" was translated into Irish by McKeown.
Track listing
All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.
# "The Dark Haired Girl" (An Nighean Dudh) (sung in Irish)
# "John Coughlin"
# "The Hare's Lament"
# "Slan agus Beannact/ Goodbye and Farewell" (sung in Irish)
# "The Snows They Melt the Soonest"
# "Nansi Og Ni Obarlain/ Young Nancy Oberlin" (sung in Irish)
# "
Lord Baker"
ord Bateman. Child Ballad 53# "Dark Horse on the Wind" (Liam Weldon)
# "The Lowlands of Holland"
# "
Bonny Greenwoodside"
hild Ballad 20# "To Fair London Town"
# "
The Moorlough Shore
The Moorlough Shore (Roud 2742) is a traditional Irish love song.
Synopsis
A young man praises the beauties of the countryside and the girl he has fallen in love with. She refuses his advances on the ground that she already loves a sailor. She wil ...
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Personnel
* Aidan Brennan – guitar
*
Mamadou Diabaté – kora
*
Johnny Cunningham – fiddle
*
Joanie Madden
Joanie Madden is an Irish-American flute and whistle player of Irish traditional music. She is best known as leader of the all-female group Cherish the Ladies, but has also recorded and performed with numerous other musicians, and as a solo art ...
– whistle, low whistle
* Matt Darriau – kaval, Irish flute, clarinet, bass clarinet
* Ole Mathisen – clarinet
*
Jamshied Sharifi
Jamshied Sharifi (born October 17, 1960) is an American composer and musician. He was born in Topeka, Kansas to an Iranian father and an American mother. At an early age, Sharifi was exposed to Jazz and Middle Eastern music by his father and to ...
– synthesiser
* Skuli Sverisson – electric bass
* Benjamin Wittman – percussion)
* Garry Leonard – guitar
* Greg Anderson – bouzouki
* Paddy League – bodhran
* Todd Schietroma – cahones, shakers, caxixis, handclaps
* Des More – guitar
* Eilis Egan – box
* Samir Chatterjee – tablas
* Oliver Straus – handclaps
* Wang Guowei – erhu
* Eaman O'Leary – banjo
* John Anthony – caxisis
* The group ''Lunasa'' consisting of:
* Donough Hennessy – guitar
* Kevin Crawford – whistles
* Sean Smyth – fiddle
* Trevor Hutchinson – acoustic bass
The following appear on the track "To Fair London Town":
* Michelle Kinney (cello)
* Cillian Valelly (uilleann pipes)
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Susan McKeown albums
2000 albums