Your welcome, Beer. It's been my pleasure. Flipping through the vinyl the other day I came across a long-forgotten LP, a sampler from Greenhays called The Gathering. One of the tracks is Heather on the Moor sung by Paul Brady. According to the liner notes PB played the guitar, whistle and mandolin on the track with Andy Irvine on harmonica (I think he had a broken arm at the time). Heather on the Moor. Brady and Irvine also collaborated on their monumental Andy Irvine Paul Brady LP (with Kevin Burke and Donal Lunny) and among the many wonderful cuts was Plains of Kildare, which recently showed up in a Mudcat thread regarding Stewball. Plains of Kildare Another Scottish song, The Rambling Rover came from Andy M. Stewart of Silly Wizard. For some reason I'd always assumed that Stewart resurrected it from the "Ballad Boom" of the '60's but in tracking it down for this post found that he actually wrote it. I recently heard Siobhan Miller cover it and was charmed by her vocal and by the entire arrangement. The Rambling Rover. She also covers some other older gems like Pound a Week Rise on her Strata CD.
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