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Lizzie's Set: Rakes of Mallow/Flowers of Edinburgh
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A new twist, with Lizzie's bass clarinet, to a couple of old traditional Celtic classic tunes.
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An itinerant bunch of traditional/contemporary Celtic musicians and singers with a loyal following in Hanoi, Vietnam and friends and former members around the w
The Social Weevils are a fluid bunch of musicians and singers who perform sets of traditional and contemporary Celtic tunes and songs from Ireland and Scotland. The band's first CD, "One for the Road," was recorded on January 3, 2000 at the Army Recording Studios in Hanoi, Vietnam, using instruments that were mostly cheap and/or broken. On that CD the Social Weevils were Peter Taylor (button accordion, guitar, mandolin, vocals), Kevin Higgins (tenor banjo, mandolin), Don McIntyre (fiddle), Huub Buise (guitar, vocals), Bob Baulch (guitar, vocals), and Mary O'Keeffe (vocals on one song). On Christmas Eve, 2000, the band recorded another CD, "Live at the R&R," at the R&R Tavern in Hanoi, Vietnam, thanks to owner Jay Ellis his wife and their son, and Ralph Raymond at the 4-track mixing board. The line-up that night was Peter Taylor on all his usual instruments and vocals, Don McIntyre on his fiddle, Ann Russell on recorders, Alec Soucy on tin whistle, Genvieve Thibault on bodhran and accapela vocals, Mary O'Keeffe providing Irish and English vocals, Joe Peters on guitar, mandolin and vocals, and assorted other friends (instruments, vocals, hand claps and foot stomps). The band's second studio CD, "Over the Ocean," was recorded in March 2004 at Kien Quyet Studio in Hanoi. The line-up for that album included Don McIntyre (fiddle, vocals), Anna Russell (recorders), Liz Druitt (bass clarinet), Darryl Rees (guitar, vocals), & Joe Peters (guitar).
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Peak #178
Peak in subgenre #17
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Traditional Melodies
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Copyright-free
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September 05, 2004
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MP3 1.9 MB 128 kbps 0:00
Story behind the song
Located near Cork, in Munster, Ireland, the town of Mallow has a long history. In the year 1185, during the reign of King John, the first foundations for Mallow Castle were laid. A new castle was built in 1282 and the town grew up around it. In 1724 a warm spring was discovered to have "curative properties" and a spa was built where visitors could partake of the waters, which ranged in temperature between 66 and 72 degrees Fahrenheit year round. Visitors from throughout Ireland and England drank the waters and bathed in them. Mallow was a major resort between 1730 and 1810. A ballad of the period, published in 1753, praises the water's curative properties... The antiquated term, "rakehell," or "rake" for short, applies to someone who is so debauched, so sinful, so irresolute and immoral that he will probably some day be found raking the coals of Hell itself. Apparently, when they weren't drinking the water from the Spa House for its curative properties, some young male visitors were guzzling, in vast quantity, other substances that had exactly the opposite effect. It is to them that the fife, fiddle, and bagpipe tune, first published in 1741, is directed. --(c)E.W.Boyle, 2002 ************************************************* The Flowers of Edinburgh is a traditional Scottish dance and song. It is a song that is quite well known by many old-time musicans in America. --Leo A. Gosselin
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Again, these are traditional melodies, so in our arrangement, there are no lyrics.
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