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Formats and Editions
1. Drunken Maggie
2. 'Kin Coolies
3. Uncle B's Ride
4. Morrisons to Kildare with Stick
5. Dorset Horn
6. High on Aaaarrthol
7. Carthy's March in the Dew
8. Huntsmallow
9. Mountain Butterfly
10. Wavy Clockwalk
11. Paddy's Pipe
12. The Whisky Rant
13. Blarney Delaney
14. N'rico
15. Nae Brandy Foxes
16. Denis Murphy's Slide - Rollicking Irishman - Soldiers Joy
17. Ratlin' Bog - Donkey Riding - Music for a Found Harmonium
18. Speed the Plough - Staten Island
19. Merrily Kiss the Quakers Wife - Lark in the Morning - Mooncoin Jig
20. Roxborough Castle - Rights of Man
21. Tommy Peoples - Golden Stud - Morning Dew
22. Julian Delaney - Mouth of the Tobique - St Annes
23. Toss the Feathers - Boys of Malin - Mac Arthurs - Franks
24. La Morisque
25. Farewell to Erin - Congress
26. Rockabilly Bulfrog
27. Irish Washerwoman - 10P Bit - Black Knight - Cock of the North
28. Jenny Lind - Grandfathers
More Info:
Black Sheep are: Titch - Fiddle Bilbo - Melodeon & Concertina Johno - Bass Plim - Drums Establish in 1983 in the UK,we play for dances and at festivals and events in the South, occasionally travelling to Europe for fun gigs. This offer includes both our studio and live album, read on for extracts from both CDs sleeve notes..... Wrecking Reels: Studio 2000 (Titch (the little one) and Bill (the big one) met way back in the early 80's and discovered a mutually irreverent attitude towards music. A band coalesced; acoustic and uncertain - but we bluffed it out, and with the recklessness of youth we took on barn dances and survived (just!) As experience builds, so does confidence and competence. We borrowed John the Bass from another band and forgot to return him. Steve the drummer on this CD played for several influential years before being overwhelmed by spontaneous combustion. Meanwhile gigs came and went, and we kept saying we must make a recording. The first one, on Shellac for HMV, never got finished; nor did several other false starts. But at last we have done it! We have got recorded output! That's exciting. But let's face it; this CD is not intended to be a scholastic work, nor even a major musical event. We are a live dance band playing for people of all ages and persuasions to enjoy themselves; frequently to there own surprise. So our CD just celebrates and awful lot of barn dances over several years, for tens of thousands of people, who have enjoyed themselves, while we ourselves have had a good thrash. And that is as good a reason as any to celebrate. So to achieve maximum benefit from this recording, don't get cerebral; just turn the volume knob clockwise, and enjoy the dust, the sweat and the noise. Warts 'n' All: Live Album 2007 Well here it is, after seven years, our second album of musical mayhem. Our line up has seen one change; Plim, our erstwhile Bass dep. Has taken up his sticks to occupy the most comfortable seat in the house bringing with him a savagely laid back social and musical demeanour. Meanwhile Bill continues his quest to resurrect England's green a pleasant land, Johno has traded his routine commute for daily strolls across open fields and Titch has escaped corporate entrapment to fiddle around to his hearts content. For a live band, having to perform in a studio meant Wrecking Reels was a traumatic experience. At gigs we make up medleys and arrangements in-between dances; sometimes during dances, maybe that's the reason why the music still excites. So this time in true Black Sheep style we sidestepped rehearsals and Beer prohibition and recorded our performance in the big marquee at Wimborne Festival. Enjoy the result, warts and all, we did.
