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Finest Kind: For Honour & for Gain
FAM09: 2010
CD: $17.50
Finest Kind's latest, released July 2010
On Finest Kind's fifth CD, Ian, Ann, and Shelley show what nearly two
decades of singing together sounds like: brilliant harmonies, innovative
arrangements, and immaculate performances that range over a vast expanse of
repertoire--old ballads and country classics, fun parodies, songs of protest
and heartbreak, and a cool, new Christmas carol. For Honour & For Gain is
half a capella, half accompanied, with instrumental honours courtesy of the
trio, plus Michael Ball, Jody Benjamin, Jeff McClintock, Brian Sanderson,
and James Stephens.Produced by James Stephens.
| Bay of Biscay She Thinks I Still Care Claudy Banks Short Life of Trouble Thomas & Nancy Bully in the Alley He Comes Like Rain(Like Wind He Goes) Song of the Lower Classes Lowlands Low |
John Barleycorn Deconstructed Why Should I be Lonely? Tenting on the Old Camp Ground Christmas Trilogy The Lass That Loved a Sailor From Dover to Calais The Riley Boys Farm! Farm! By the Green Grove |
Finest Kind: Silks & Spices
FAM05:
2003
CD: $17.50
In the trio's own words:
Finest Kind’s repertoire has so many sources, our musical closet so many skeletons, and our performances so many opposing elements, there’s no neat summing us up. “Folk music” serves as a point of departure, but in our case obscures as much as it explains.
The best we’ve come up with is a slogan, “Old Songs in Close Harmony.” But it too only partially covers the ground. Take the word “old:” on Silks & Spices there’s blackletter-broadside old, Napoleonic-days-of-sail old, Victorian Christmas and golden-age-of-country-music old, Ottawa-Valley-logging and early-American-sheet-music old, antiwar-protest, civil-rights, and bellbottom-pants old—plus one song with a tune as old as Canada but words written 136 years later.
As for “close harmony,” well, we’re often told that Finest Kind sounds like no one else, but in our arrangements we hear the harmonic strains of the Copper Family and Young Tradition, barbershop quartet and Sacred Harp, doo wop and country brother duos, and many more. How can we bundle that up in a nice neat phrase?
So we decided Silks & Spices was an apt title for this CD. Finest Kind is not one thing or another, but some of each and every. Once you hear us, you understand what we do.
Produced by James Stephens, who also adds his instrumental magic to the CD.
| Bright Shining Morning Fair Maid Walking At the End of a Long Lonely Day The Ten Dollar Bill The Maple Leaf Forever As I Roved Out Jack the Jolly Tar Shepherd of the Downs |
John Barleycorn Sweet Forget-Me-Not Shepherds Arise Blackest Crow The Painful Plough The Times They Are a-Changin' Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? |
Finest Kind: Heart's Delight
FAM03: 1999
CD: $17.50 Cassette $9
Following
in the footsteps of Lost in Song, Finest Kind's second release
demonstrates once again why they are considered among the most exciting
exponents of vocal harmony on the scene. Like the first recording, this
one is crammed with a rich and varied mixture of mostly old songs from
Canada, England and the U.S., plus a few more recently penned gems
including a couple written by band members Shelley Posen and Ian Robb.
Includes guest appearances by Ian Clark, Ken Harper and James Stephens.Produced by James Stephens.
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A Sailor's Life Fond Affection The Fugitive's Lament Jordan Jack Ashton If You Can't Get Five, Take Two Brigg Fair Someday You'll Call My Name April Morning |
In
Praise of Alcohol Down at the End of Memory's Lane Homeless Wassail The Mermaid Squid Jiggin' Ground Home in Pasadena No More Fish, No Fishermen Who Will Sing for Me |
Finest Kind: Lost in a Song
FAM02: 1996
CD: $17.50 Cassette $9
Finest
Kind's debut CD and cassette release from Ian Robb, Shelley Posen and
Ann Downey. Lost in a Song is a collection of old and new songs from
Britain, Canada and the US, all delivered with Finest Kind's trademark
hair-raising vocal harmonies. The songs are about half-and-half capella
and accompanied, and the latter feature some very tasteful fiddle and
mandolin back-up from producer James Stephens, in addition to the trio's
own guitar, bass, banjo and concertina.|
The
Banks of Sweet Primroses Give me Just a Little More Time The Miner's Dream of Home Blue Mountain The Sussex Drinking Song The Night Pat Murphy Died The Storms May Roll the Ocean Goodnight-Loving Trail Only Remembered |
Fa-Sol-La
Going to the West A Handful of Maple Leaves Gower Wassail What Was I Supposed to Do I Heard the Bluebird Sing The Faded Roses of December A Pilgrim's Way |
Finest Kind with John D. Huston: Feasts & Spirits
FAM07: 2004
CD: $17.50
The
rich and sparkling vocal harmonies of Finest Kind are a natural setting
for Christmas carols and wassails. Add some classic excerpts
from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, masterfully delivered by Mr.
Dickens himself, and you have all the ingredients of a spirit-raising
feast for the ears. Canadian actor John D. Huston is known for his
acclaimed one man show Charles Dickens Reads A Christmas Carol.Produced by James Stephens.
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Shepherds Arise A Tight-Fisted Hand at the Grindstone Horsham Tipteerers' Song The Face in the Knocker Gower Wassail Party at Fezziwig's The Holly and the Ivy The Cratchit's Christmas Dinner While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night |
The Two Children–Ignorance and Want The Homeless Wassail Grieving for Tiny Tim The Cradle Carol Christmas Morning O Little Town of Bethlehem The End of It Please to See the King Oh Beautiful Star of Bethlehem |
Ian Robb with James Stephens, Greg Brown and Ian Clark: Jiig
FAM06 2005
CD: $17.50
Ian
Robb teams up with three great players in James Stephens, Ian Clark and
Greg T. Brown for a wonderfully varied selection of old and new songs
and tunes. A long-awaited follow-up to his 1994 recording From Different
Angels, Jiig again offers everything from great solo ballad singing to
jigs reels and waltzes. Guest appearances from Grit Laskin, Ben
Grossman, Philip Murphy and Finest Kind's Ann Downey and Shelley Posen.Produced by James Stephens
2005
Canadian Folk Music Award: Awarded Best
Singer - Traditional, and nominated for Best Album - Traditional
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Chicken on a Raft Missing the F in C, Shindigo Jig, The End of Winter. The Oggie Man I Should Like to be a Policeman The Rambling Sailor Fen’s Bedtime, The Conundrum |
The Rose in June The Female Rambling Sailor The Gallant Frigate Amphitrite Angeline the Baker, Abe’s Retreat Sweet Thames Flow Softly The Bonny Black Hare The Rose of Allandale, Swannanoa |
Ian Robb: From Different Angels
FAM01 1994
CD: $17.50 Cassette $9
With:
Finest Kind, The Old Sod Band, Friends of Fiddlers Green, Garnet Rogers,
Chris Whiteley. Produced by Ken Whiteley. Grand vocal harmonies from
Finest Kind and fine musicianship. A tribute to the late Peter Bellamy,
Ewan MacColl and Stan Rogers.
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The Santa Fe Trail Farmer's Boy The Moving Cloud / Miss Thornton / Skepper Schotish The Big Hewer Make and Break Harbour Ye Mariners All Garnet's Home-Made Beer The Last Minute Waltz / Midnight on the Water |
A-Roving on a Winter-s Night Green Groves Charlie Hunter / McGuire's / Cape Breton Dream The Lag's Song D-Day Dodgers They're Taking it Away Cattle in the Cane / Vladimir's Steamboat The Mary Ellen Carter |
For Ian Robb's Folk Legacy Recordings (The Barley Grain for Me, Hang the Piper, Rose & Crown), please visit www.folk-legacy.com
The Old Sod Band: Grass Roots
FAM04 2001
This
CD is out of stock, but is available as a Virtual CD download for $12,
from our Downloads page
'Grass
Roots' is the first release by 'The Old Sod Band', the long time house
band at Ottawa Contra Dances. This recording covers a range of musical
roots from Quebec to Ireland, the U.S. and Scotland. Although primarily
traditional, the recording features some favorite original jigs, reels
and waltzes from around the globe. Fiddler Dan Schryer and concertina
player Ian Robb are joined by Ann Downey (bass, banjo, percussion), Ian
Clark (guitar), Philip Murphy (guitar, mandolin) and Tim Cutts
(mandolin, mandola, tenor banjo, nyckelharpa). A note for dancers- some
sets are long enough to be used at your bandless dances! Guest
appearances include Denis Lanctot, Don Kavanagh, Raj Mudhar and James
Stephens. Produced by James Stephens.
Julia
Delaney/Tam Lin/The Banshee
Miss Sarah McFadyen/Princess Nancy/Hills of Sharon
Far Away/Old Madera
Vingt Quatre Juin/Reel de Fauberg/Pointe au Pic
Margaret Brown's Favourite/Ben Keily's Delight/Pay the Reckoning
Johsefins Dopvals
Trip to Durrow/Paddy Ryan's Dream/Sheila Coyles
Sonny Brogan's/Brian O'Lynn/Blue Jay
Over Land and Sea/Reel Beatrice
Tim Radford: Home From Home (FAM08) 2005
CD: $17.50
Ian Robb, Finest Kind, James Stephens, Chris Leslie, John Roberts, Jeff McClintock and Brian Sanderson.
Released in May 2005 Biography & info
Tim Radford, an English singer now living on Cape Cod, has recorded again after a period of near thirty years, his singing inactivity being due to decades of concentration on Morris dancing in the villages of Adderbury and Kirtlington, Oxfordshire.
Now back to his first love, this recording contains songs old and new with 10 accompanied and 7 unaccompanied tracks. It includes a range of material from chorus songs to ballads, mainly traditional material but with a scattering of composed songs, some written by old friends. There is a strong commitment to songs collected in the south of England, particularly from Hampshire and Dorset, a part of the country where Tim was born and raised.
Produced by James Stephens and Ian Robb
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Come, Come my Friends John Barleycorn The Bird in the Bush Fair Maid of Australia Winter Man (Chris Leslie) New Year (Jehanne Mehta) The Month of January Cupid's Garden |
The Brokendown Gentleman Love in June Lymington Round & Round (Rick Keeling) The Spotted Cow Washing Day George Collins The Rolling of The Stones Here is My Home (Si Kahn) |
The Friends of Fiddler's Green: This Side of The Ocean
FOFG3 1997
CD: $17.50
CD re-release of the Friends' first vinyl album, produced by Ken Whiteley. Enriched with a bunch of live tracks recorded in the intervening years. Great songs, tunes and stories, from a band which refuses to take itself seriously. Vintage FOFG, matured (huh?) in the barrel, challenging to the palate, a big nose and nice legs. Has been known to make grown men cry.
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Oats and Beans Polkas: Salmon Tails Up the Water/Harper's Frolic/ Kelty Clippie Down in the Coalmine The Golden Vanity Come Me Little Son The Shetland Fiddler/High Road to Linton The Oily Rig Hornpipes: The Black Swan/The High Level Bridge The Works Outing |
Torn A' Ma Goon/Captain Ross
Kiss Me Goodnight, Sergeant-Major/Bless 'Em All The Hole in the Wall/Once I Loved a Maiden Fair The Hell-For-Leather Polkas Freedom Come All Yes Over the Gate Arky's Toast Malpas Wassail Miss McLeod of Raasay/The Mason's Apron The Dogs |