Irish in America - New CD by Dan Milner!

Subject: RE: Irish in America - New CD by Dan Milner!
From: Frank McGrath
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 01:52 PM

Can't wait to get my hands on a copy.
I've been itching to learn "The West Rutland Marble Bawn" for two years since I heard Dan first sing it.

Best of luck Bob and Dan. I know "Irish in America" will be a winner.

Frank

Subject: RE: Irish in America - New CD by Dan Milner!
From: JedMarum
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 09:19 AM

I just ordered my copy from Folk Legacy (easy to use website, secure transmission for purchases - good stuff). I am really looking forward to hearing it! Thanks for posting the info Sandy.

Subject: RE: Irish in America - New CD by Dan Milner!
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 08:57 AM

Gee, it's good to hear Dan's voice again! I remember hearing him sing the mill song at the Getaway-before-last, and well remember the goosebumps. Powerful stuff.

I got one for me and one for a friend. Mudcatters, if you've heard Dan, you know you need to have this. If you HAVEN'T heard him, give a listen and THEN you'll know you need to have it.

Thank you for making music like this available, guys. You're the best!

Dani

Subject: RE: Irish in America - New CD by Dan Milner!
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 03:20 AM

Very kewl! I just figured Billy the Kid was Irish and that's why he was on there!

Those vats must've been incredibly awful! Thanks for the little tidbit of your adventures in recording. That's the kind of stuff we want to hear more of, dang it! "Tell us another story, SandyGramps! Please?!" **BG**

luvya and thanks a bunch,

kat

Subject: RE: Irish in America - New CD by Dan Milner!
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 01:52 AM

Imagine working over one of those huge vats of acid, inhaling the fumes for a few years. That's what happened to the immmigrant in the ballad, and then his friends "got a raffle up" to raise the money for him to go home to die. The former Congressman from whom we collected the song lived in Waterbury, Connecticut. Incidentally, he happens to be John McCutcheon's father-in-law! Jeremy Brecher, who organized the Waterbury collecting project, learned that Monagan knew the song, and when Jeremy and I went to his home, I got to push the "record" button on the tape recorder while Monagan played the piano and sang the ballad. So, collector's credit goes to Jeremy, but, by doggies, I helped! It's a powerful song, wonderfully sung by "Liam's Brother."

Now why, you say, is "Billy the Kid" on this record? Well, it seems Billy's real name was Henry McCarty, and he was an Irish lad from New York, the son of Irish immigrants. Dan's notes for this CD are very informative!

Sandy

Subject: RE: Irish in America - New CD by Dan Milner!
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 01:05 AM

Hey, SandyGramps! I am listening right now and it sounds fantastic! Great job and congratulations all round!

Would love to know more about those *pickle* vats...having taken a bronze-casting class a few times and metalsmithing, I have shirts with all kinds of *pickled* holes. Hard to imagine big vats of the stuff!

Thanks for letting us know and the new wallpaper looks great!

luvyakat

Subject: Irish in America - New CD by Dan Milner!
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 11:55 PM

Thought I ought to let all you eager Mudcatters know that the brand new CD by our own "Liam's Brother" (Dan Milner) and Bob Conroy has landed in Folk-Legacy's warehouse (that's what we call the cellar of our old barn of a place). It's a GREAT record of songs, ballads, and tunes created by the Irish who came to this country, and it got here just in time for you to honor St. Patrick with its music. Included are two of the finest examples of Irish-American balladry I've ever heard: "The West Rutland Marble Bawn" (about quarrying white marble in Vermont - learned from Margaret MacArthur) and "Scovill's Rolling Mill" (telling of the dangerous work at the "pickle tubs" -- acid baths used in the brass industry of Waterbury, Connecticut -- collected from former U. S. Congressman John Monagan by Jeremy Brecher).

Take a look and give a listen at FOLK-LEGACY. Hope this clickie works; I've lost my Joe Offer instruction sheet!

Sandy