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Aly Bain / Jerry Douglas / James Taylor

Title: Transatlantic Sessions - Series 4 Vol.1 (2009)

Label: Whirlie Records

Cat No:WHIRLIECD18
Format:CD

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The first of a projected three volumes from the television series Transatlantic Sessions 4 - filmed & recorded in Perthshire, Scotland in March 2009.

Music co-directors for TRANSATLANTIC SESSIONS 4 are Nashville’s dobro king Jerry Douglas (eleven Grammies and counting), and Shetland’s own Aly Bain (six Honorary Doctorates and counting).

American star guests are “folk titan” James Taylor, Rosanne Cash, Allison Moorer, Martha Wainwright, Dan Tyminski and fiddle virtuoso Stuart Duncan.

From Ireland come singers Mairéad Ni Mhaonaigh, Karan Casey and Liam ÓMaonlai and the great Dónal Lunny (bouzouki), Dezi Donnelly (fiddle) and Niall Vallely (concertina).

Keeping Scotland’s flag flying are Julie Fowlis, Karen Matheson, Emily Smith, Jenna Reid, James Graham, and the extraordinary Allan MacDonald.

House Band members are Russ Barenberg (guitar/mandolin) and Todd Parks (bass) from Nashville, Ronan Browne and Mike McGoldrick (pipes and whistles) from Ireland, Scots Phil Cunningham and Donald Shaw (accordion and keyboards), James Mackintosh (percussion), and the legendary Danny Thompson (bass).

Track Listing for Transatlantic Sessions - Series 4 Vol.1 (2009)
‘Fiddle Blast’ Set - Aly Bain, Stuart Duncan , Mairéad Ni Mhaonaigh & Jenna Reid
Man Of Constant Sorrow - Dan Tyminski
Bleeding All Over You - Martha Wainwright
Glide - Jerry Douglas
Ged A Sheòl Mi Air M' Aineol - Julie Fowlis
Millworker - James Taylor
Mo Nĺon Ó - Mairéad Ni Mhaonaigh
Flatwater Fran - Phil Cunningham
Motherless Children - Rosanne Cash
Lassie Wi' The Lint-White Locks - Karen Matheson
O’farrells’s Farewell To Limerick / Oot East By The Vong - Dónal Lunny & Aly Bain
The King's Shilling - Karan Casey & James Taylor With Niall Vallely
Màili Dhonn - James Graham
How She Does It - Allison Moorer
Jewels Of The Ocean [Set] - Allan Macdonald

Reviews

fRoots

Transatlantic Sessions assembled the cream of Scottish, Irish and American traditional musicians and let them interact.

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