Transatlantic Sessions 5 [DVD]

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DVD of the complete fifth TV series, screened on BBC Scotland and BBC Four in October / November 2011.

Transatlantic Sessions once again brings together the best of Nashville, Ireland and Scotland in an award-winning format that affords, in the words of one critic, a unique insight into the sheer joy of making music.

Recorded in a beautiful old hunting lodge at the entrance to Glen Lyon near Aberfeldy in the Perthshire Highlands, top vocal and instrumental exponents of the Country and Celtic traditions gathered to rehearse and play together with no audience except themselves and a resident house-band of their peers. As with previous series, music co-directors were Nashvilles Jerry Douglas
and Shetlands Aly Bain.

Leavening the intimacy of the music-making through each of the six programmes in the series is a strong element of spectacular Highland scenic photography while this time around a greater emphasis on informal backstage conversations and stories serves to highlight the series genuinely historic qualities of collaboration and performance.

PROGRAMME ONE
1) ALY BAIN: THE BOYS OF 25 / THE GLASS OF BEER
2) ERIC BIBB: GOIN’ DOWN THE ROAD FEELIN’ BAD
3) KATHLEEN MACINNES: ORAN NA CLOICHE (Song of “The” Stone)
4) BÉLA FLECK: FALANI
5) EDDI READER: LEEZIE LINDSAY
6) DIRK POWELL: BOATS UP THE RIVER
7) ALISON KRAUSS: LAY MY BURDEN DOWN

PROGRAMME TWO
1) MICHAEL MCGOLDRICK: HELVIC HEAD / KISS THE MAID
2) SARAH JAROSZ: ANNABEL LEE
3) DIRK POWELL: SOME SWEET DAY
4) SHARON SHANNON: DREAMCATCHER / OFF THE HOOK
5) DECLAN O’ROURKE: TIME MACHINE
6) PHIL CUNNINGHAM: THE LAKE CHARLES WALTZ
7) AMOS LEE: JESUS

PROGRAMME THREE
1) BÉLA FLECK: BIG COUNTRY
2) MUIREANN NIC AMHLAOIBH:WESTERN HIGHWAY
3) AMOS LEE: CLEAR BLUE EYES
4) JERRY DOUGLAS: ‘A New Day Medley’ A New Day / North
5) DIRK POWELL: WATERBOUND
6) SARAH JAROSZ: RUN AWAY
7) NOLLAIG CASEY: LIOS NA BANRIONA / THE CROSS REEL

PROGRAMME FOUR
1) SHARON SHANNON:FLYING CIRCUS/WINDCHIME DANCE
2) IAIN MORRISON: A LEWIS SUMMER
3) SARAH JAROSZ: RING THEM BELLS
4) ALISON KRAUSS: LONESOME MOONLIGHT WALTZ
5) SAM BUSH: THE BALLAD OF STRINGBEAN AND ESTELLE
6) DECLAN O’ROURKE: GALILEO (SOMEONE LIKE YOU)
7) ALISON KRAUSS: DIMMING OF THE DAY

PROGRAMME FIVE
1) PHIL CUNNINGHAM: THE HUT ON STAFFIN ISLAND) / SHAKE A LEG / WING COMMANDER DONALD MACKENZIE’S REEL
2) EDDI READER: DRAGONFLIES
3) DÓNAL LUNNY: CÚNLA
4) MUIREANN NIC AMHLAOIBH: LEAVING LIMERICK
5) SAM BUSH: SAME OL’ RIVER
6) KATHLEEN MACINNES:GUR MILIS MÒRAG (Morag Is Sweet)
7) ERIC BIBB: DON’T EVER LET NOBODY DRAG YOUR SPIRIT DOWN

PROGRAMME SIX
1) JOHN MCCUSKER:THE BRETON SET:
Sailing Through the Narrows / Kev’s Trip to Brittany /Pur the Orangutan/Billy’s Reel
2) IAIN MORRISON:BROKEN OFF CAR DOOR
3) AMOS LEE:WINDOWS ARE ROLLED DOWN
4) ALY BAIN:T’AIMSE IM' CHODHLADH (I Am Asleep, Don't Wake Me)
5) SAM BUSH:LITTLE GIRL OF MINE IN TENNESSEE
6) ALISON KRAUSS:I BELIEVE IN YOU
7) JERRY DOUGLAS:ROUTE IRISH

BONUS TRACKS:
Disc 1:
a) IAIN MORRISON:FIRE IN MY HANDS
b) MUIREANN NIC AMHLAOIBH: PÉ IN ÉIRINN Í (Whoever She May Be)

Disc 2:
a) RUSS BARENBERG: WHEN AT LAST
b) NOLLAIG CASEY: A STÓR MO CHROI (Treasure of my Heart)
c) KATHLEEN MACINNES: REUL ÀLAINN A’ CHUAIN (Star Of The Sea)

Featuring amongst others, Alison Krauss, Eddi Reader, Amos Lee, Phil Cunningham, Donald Shaw, Mike McGoldrick, John McCusker, James MacKintosh, Sarah Jarosz, Sam Bush, Declan O'Rourke and Iain Morrison, Sharon Shannon, Donal Lunny, Nollaig Casey and Jim Murray.

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