The Lonesome Boatman
1969—Transatlantic TRA 191 LP

Side One
Bill Hart's Favourite
Dance Around the Spinning Wheel
Let Me Go to the Mountains
McShane
Colonel Fraser

Side Two
The Lonesome Boatman
Carron Lough Bay
The Prickly Bush
Bogy's Bonny Belle
The Fox Chase

Credits

Produced by Bill Leader
Recorded at Livingston Studios
Sleeve Brian Shuel

Sleeve Notes

There is no sound in all music that resembles the combination of Irish pipes accompanying voice and guitar, and that combination is unique to the Furey Brothers. The backing of Finbar's plaintive pipes to Eddy's wild voice gives a windswept, rather desolate flavour to the sadder songs, contrasting with the frisky whistle and brisk piping on the dance tunes.

This second album of the Fureys has the same combination of songs, slow airs and dances that made their first record so popular, and features Finbar's solo on the Indian whistle The Lonesome Boatman which has proved a show-stopper on all their recent concert.