''What's the Rumpus?'' is the seventh album by

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band Gaelic Storm. It was released on July 8, 2008 and reached #177 on the ''Billboard'' 200.

Track listing

All arrangements by Gaelic Storm. #"What's the Rumpus?" (Murphy, Twigger, Wehmeyer) - 3:59 #"Lover's Wreck (Murphy, Twigger, Wehmeyer) - 3:56 #"Darcy's Donkey" (Murphy, Twigger, Wehmeyer) - 3:04 #"The Mechanical Bull" (

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/trad.) - 4:24 #"Human to a God" (Twigger, Wehmeyer) - 3:54 #"Slim Jim and the Seven Eleven Girl" (Twigger) - 4:05 #"Don't Let the Truth Get in the Way (of a Good Story)" (Murphy, Twigger, Wehmeyer) - 3:30 #"The Samurai Set" (trad.) - 3:50 #" Beidh Aonach Amárach" (trad./Sandy Mathers) - 4:11 #"Death Ride to Durango" (trad.) - 4:34 #"Faithful Land" (Murphy, Twigger, Wehmeyer) - 4:20 #"If Good Times Were Dollars" (Twigger) - 3:10 #"Floating the Flambeau" (Burns/Purvis/trad.) - 4:07 #"The Night I Punched Russell Crowe" (Murphy, Twigger) - 3:16

Personnel

Gaelic Storm * Patrick Murphy (vocals,

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 ...

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harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...

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Steve Twigger Steve Twigger is an English musician, best known as the guitarist of the Celtic music, Celtic band Gaelic Storm. Early life Twigger was born in Coventry, England. Career In 1986 he met a singer-songwriter from Boston and formed an alternativ ...

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guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

, vocals, bodhran) * Ryan Lacey (

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

, background vocals) * Peter Purvis (

Highland bagpipes The Great Highland bagpipe ( gd, a' phìob mhòr "the great pipe") is a type of bagpipe native to Scotland, and the Scottish analogue to the Great Irish Warpipes. It has acquired widespread recognition through its usage in the British milita ...

, Uilleann pipes,

Deger pipes The electronic bagpipes is an electronic musical instrument emulating the tone and/or playing style of the bagpipes. Most electronic bagpipe emulators feature a simulated chanter, which is used to play the melody. Some models also produce a h ...

whistles Whistling without the use of an artificial whistle is achieved by creating a small opening with one's lips, usually after applying moisture (licking one's lips or placing water upon them) and then blowing or sucking air through the space. The a ...

Trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the Standing wave, air column ...

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Jessie Burns Gaelic Storm is a Celtic band founded in Santa Monica, California in 1996. Their musical output includes pieces from traditional Irish music, Scottish music, and original tunes in both the Celtic and Celtic rock genres. The band had its first ...

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fiddle A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, th ...

, background vocals) Additional personnel * "Crazy" Arthur Brown (vocals on "What's the Rumpus?") * Jeff May (

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range: ** Bass (instrument), including: ** Acoustic bass gui ...

) * Lloyd Maines ( pedal steel,

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 ...

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 ...

) * David Boyle (

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References

Gaelic Storm albums 2008 albums {{2008-rock-album-stub