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Piper's Crow

Piper's Crow "This release is the premier album from Piper's Crow, a quartet that specializes in traditional material (plus sympathetic originals) from the breadth of the Celtic realm, stretching from Scotland and Ireland to Galicia and Cape Breton Island. The band's eponymous CD is a gorgeous collection of rich, haunting melodies, exhilarating jigs and reels played with rippling zeal, and songs featuring Laura MacKenzie's exquisite voice. Much of Piper's Crow's charm is derived from the sparkling interplay between the musicians, especially the exotic bagpipes and assorted wind instruments deftly wielded by MacKenzie and master piper Dick Hensold, while Zack Kline's fiddle weaves devilishly amongst them and Karen Mueller helps drive the entire business on guitar and bouzouki. This is wonderful stuff that's musically provocative while rarely failing to elicit a smile or an urge to bound about the room."

— Review from the Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages, January 20, 2006.

Piper's Crow
Musicians: (left to right)
  • Karen Mueller: guitar, bouzouki, autoharp
  • Dick Hensold: Northumbrian smallpipes, recorders, medieval greatpipes, gemshorn
  • Laura MacKenzie: wooden flutes, vocals, whistle, concertina, border greatpipes, Scottish smallpipes, gemshorn
  • Zack Kline: violin, octave violin

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Track Listing

  1. Maria Gow's Molasses Biscuits (Hensold) / Walker Street / Maid of Argyll
  2. The Kirk O'Birnie Bouzle / Jenny's Chickens
  3. Mackenzie's Misfortune (Hensold)
  4. The Reel of Stumpie
  5. My Cape Breton Home (Holland)
  6. Galician March / Muņeira
  7. Evidence of Flora (Mackenzie)
  8. Strings of Pearl (Kline) / 42nd Avenue (Kline)
  9. Mormond Braes / The Butcher's Jig
  10. Niel Gow's Lament for the Death of his Second Wife / All the Night I Lay with Jockey / The Piper's Maggot
  11. Thrush in the Straw / Gables Motel Jig (Hensold) / Highlander's Jig
  12. My Treasure, My Delight, My Love (mp3)
  13. The Fertile Fields of Peebles (Hensold)

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