01	Handsome Molly/Declan's Dream						04:12
	02	Black & Tans						02:30
	03	O'Keefe's Set						02:33
	04	Ordinary Man						04:04
	05	Macedonian/Black Forest						04:30
	06	Sitting On Top Of The World						02:58
	07	Flowers/Handsome Sally/Morning Nightcap						04:28
	08	Lonsesome Boatman/Freedom Walk						05:26
	09	Too Long To Remember						02:55
	10	Famous Ballymote/Over The Moor To Maggie/Congress Reel						03:19
	11	Raggle Taggle Gypsy						02:59

East Side Digital - ESD80742
Produced by John MGann
1994
(Note: The tracks on the lable are wrong.)

We Don't Care Where Your Grandparents Are From
Date of Release Aug 30, 1994

AMG EXPERT REVIEW: The lone release by this unique acoustic Boston-based band fuses traditional Irish, Celtic rock, and bluegrass music. Produced by multi-instrumentalist John McGann, it also includes Boiled in Lead members Josef Kessler (fiddle) and Robin Anders (exotic percussion). Lead singer and acoustic guitarist Sean Cunningham provides some tasty picking, as does McGann on banjo, guitar, and even steel guitar. With their modernization of traditional tunes and original songs written in that style, this recording resembles JSD Band's reunion recording For the Record, as well as Hickory Wind's seminal recording Crossing Devil's Bridge. - Dave Sleger

1. Handsome Molly/Declan's Dream (Traditional) - 4:12
2. Black & Tans (Behan/Skin Music) - 2:30
3. O'Keefe's Set (Traditional) - 2:33
4. Ordinary Man (Hames) - 4:04
5. Macedonian/Black Forest (Kessler/Traditional) - 4:30
6. Sitting on Top of the World (Traditional) - 2:58
7. Flowers/Handsome Sally/Morning Nightcap... (Traditional) - 4:28
8. Freedom Walk (McGuigan/Walton's Music) - 5:26
9. Too Long to Remember (Cunningham/Mcbride) - 2:55
10. Famous Ballymote/Over the Moor to Maggie... (Traditional) - 3:19
11. Raggle Taggle Gypsy (Traditional) - 2:59

Robin Adnan Anders - Tabla, Dourbakee
John McGann - Banjo, Bass, Guitar, Drums, Guitar (Steel), Vocals (bckgr), Producer
Dr. Toby Mountain - Mastering
Noel Scott - Accordion
Joseph Kessler - Fiddle
Rocket Graphics - Design
Caoimhe Ni Mhaoileoin - Whistle (Human)

1994 East Side Digital 80742
1994 CD East Side Digital 80742


Two reviews: Sunday's Well and Reconciliation

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To: leadheads@asylum.sf.ca.us
Subject: Two reviews: Sunday's Well and Reconciliation
From: vnend%nudity@Princeton.EDU (David W. James)
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 94 01:23:23 -0500

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I finally got to listen to one of the CD's we picked up at the shows
last week, Sunday's Well "We Don't Care Where Your Grandparents Are From",
which lists Josef as a member of the band and Robin appearing on the
album.

Much more trad than BiL has been the last several years, in fact, the first
song, Handsome Molly, would sound right at home at my parents (die hard
fans of, as the waitress in The Blues Brothers says "Both kinds, country
and western!")

One technical snafu; the liner and back list 12 songs; but there are only
11 tracks on the CD; Lonesome Boatman and Freedom Walk got ran together
as track 8 instead of tracks 8 and 9 as listed. But the sound is nice and
clean (or as clean as I can tell on the cheapo speakers I'm having to listen
to it on; our CD changer has decided that it likes the 6 CDs in it so
much that it won't give them back, afraid we'll change them (really now, I
only wanted to change one of them...) so I'm listening to new CDs on the
computer through the little stereo speakers that I have on it.)

Two of the tracks will be familiar to leadheads; Macedonian/Black Forest is
something that BiL occationally does, and the next to last meddly ends with
a version of the Congress Reel, the origin of the last part of Sugarfoot
Congress on Anter Dance.

If you like trad Irish, you should buy a copy of the album. If you
don't like traditional Irish, you should still buy a copy, because Josef
and Robin on it. ;-)

Sunday's Well, "We Don't Care Where Your Grandparents Are From", East
Side Digital, Minneapolis, MN


A friend at Princeton gets to vote on one of the music awards, so he gets
a monthly catalog of new albums and other music related stuff, and,
being a nice guy, he passes it around so his friends can order some of
the interesting stuff you don't normally see in stores.

And so I got a copy of Reconciliation's "Two Stories In One".
The album caught my eye because the band consists of two didjeridu
players (Phillip Conyngham and Alan Dargin), a bodhran (Maria Cullen)
and 'Bronze age Irish Horns' (Simon O'Dwyer), with various
other instruments sitting in from time to time on the album. One of the
footnotes in the liner notes informs us that Alan's didjeridu is over
100 years old, and he's been playing it since he was 5.

As you'd expect, the music is a blend of Irish and Aboriginal. There
are 14 tracks on the album, and, to my somewhat twisted ear, this is both
good and fun stuff, heavy on the drone. Maria knows what she's doing on
bodhran, and to my inexperienced ear the two didjeridu players know what
they are about as well. In fact, the didj playing is amazing ('Polite
Conversation' is a good example, with Phillip on his didjeridu and Greg
Sheehan sitting in on Bamboo Mouth Harp, and I really liked "Jalopy",
with both Didjeridu's going and the vocal harmonies coming and going.)

There is a good didj and percussion piece ("Sticks"), an Irish polka
("Kerry Polka", it works, sort of) and a reel ("Pony Tail Reel") on
horns that you'd think weren't and clap sticks. There is also a piece
that defies description, Na Miola Mora (Irish for The Big Whales) that
would probably get labeled 'New Age' except it works for me (in a Something
Big looming in out of the Fog kind of way.)

The last two tracks, "Heavy Load" and "Jiggery Didj" make for a strong
finish, showing how well this unlikely sounding mix of instruments can
work together.

If you like didjeridu or just generally having your musical perceptions
twisted a little, give this one a listen. Or just put it on low in the
background sometime and watch people try to figure it out.

Reconciliation "Two Stories In One", Small World Music Inc, Nashville, TN.

Vnend