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1 |
When
Will We Be Married |
2 |
Junior
Crehans |
3 |
The
Sally Garden |
4 |
Mickey
the Moulder |
5 |
As
I Roved Out |
6 |
Sparkys |
7 |
Black Is The Colour |
8 |
Queen
of the May/The Congress |
9 |
The
Water is Wide |
| 10 |
Morrison's
Jig |
| 11 |
Whiskey In The Jar |
| 12 |
King
of the Fairies |
| 13 |
Deja
Blues |
| 14 |
Wheelans |
| 15 |
The
Wild Rover |
Adele
McMahon - violin |
Dan
Britton - |
acoustic guitar, vocals, bodhran, percussion, harmonica |
Chris
Conway - |
tin
& low whistles, keyboards, acoustic 9string guitar, vocals,
kalimba, percussion |
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Celtic
band Govannen live, playing a set of traditional and contemporary Irish songs
and uptempo jigs & reels.
If you've seen Govannen live
this will bring back happy memories.
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background
Having
recorded an instrumental atmospheric album Healing Waters,
the band wanted a CD to show what they do live. Alternating
songs and jigs & reels with the odd ballad and even
a blues The Water Is Wide is just that.
This album is many people's souvenir of a great night out
with Govannen. Adele's fiddle is the real star of the album.
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influences
Alan
Stivell, Donal Lunny, The Waterboys, Shane McGowan, The
Pogues, The Moving Hearts, Planxty, Ray Charles
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trivia
Recorded
live at The White Hart pub in Melton Mowbray - it started
as quite a quiet night but this actually made for a better
live recording - things heated up at the end of the evening
and Govannen went with it.
The band still often start the night with When Will We
Be Married and Junior Creehans to warm them up.
Morrison's Jig has also been recorded as Port Ui Mhuirgheasa
on Chris Conway's Storming album
and The Storm Thieves Up To The
Sun. Govannen alos have recorded it with The Kesh
on Sniff The Pony and Celtic Fire.
Different versions of Queen of the May/Congress appear on Sniff The Pony and Celtic Fire.
The album was remastered in 2012.
In 2018 the album was reformatted for digital release replacing cover songs with traditional ones recorded at the same concert and retitled "Live 2006 - The Water Is Wide".
CC's favourite track - Wheelans
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