the Irish Rovers
The Irish Rovers' Gems
1996—Rover Records 002 CD
CD One
The Last Of The Irish Rover
Star Of The County Down
Bonnets Of Bonnie Dundee
Liverpool Lou (D. Behan)
The Gypsy Rover
Muirsheen Durkin
Come By The Hills (W. G. Smith)
The Gallant Forty-Twa
No Nay Never
Whiskey On A Sunday (G. Hughes)
Farewell To Carlingford (T. Makem)
I'm A Rambler, I'm A Gambler
Three Jigs
The Unicorn (S. Silverstein)
The Orange And The Green (A. Murphy)
Lily The Pink
CD Two
The Bonnie Lass Of Fyvie
Donald Where's Your Trousers (A. Stewart)
Mountain Tay (S. McCarthy)
Sweet Strabane
Turra Market
Young Roddy McCorley
Tied Up With A Black Velvet Band
My Boy Willie
Caltan Weaver
The Isle Of Innishfree
Good Luck To The Barleymow
Wild Mountain Thyme
Three Reels
Weigh, Hey & Up She Rises
Rolling Home To Ireland (G. Millar)
Wasn't That A Party (T. Paxton)
Credits
Jim Ferguson: Vocals
Wilcil McDowell: Accordions, Keyboards
Joe Millar: Bass, Whistle, Harmonica, Accordion & Vocals
George Millar: 6 & 12 String Guitars & Vocals
Kevin McKeown: Drums, Bodhrán, Bones and Things
John Reynolds: Guitar, Whistle, Bass & Vocals
Wallace Hood: Irish Bouzouki, 10-String Cittern, Mandolin, Banjo, Whistle, Guitar & Vocals
Additional Musicians
Rick Salt: Slide & Electric Guitar On The Party
Rob Mitchell & Rae Croll: Side Drums On; Erin Go Bragh, Orange & Green, Lass Of Fyvie & Roddy Mccorley — From The Pacific Gael Pipe & Drum Band Of Nanaimo, B.C.
Recorded At: Island Pacific Studios, Nanaimo, British Columbia Canada
Produced By: George Millar
Engineered By: Rick Salt
Mixed By: George Millar & Rick Salt
Mastered By: Mark Franklin Of Media Magic, Victoria, B.C.
Photographed By: Cam Reid
Assisted By: Jon Millar
A Special Thanks to Jennifer Coyle for her art work on the cover and to Amy Millar for her sassy secretarial skills in the face of danger
Sleeve Notes
A NOTE TO OUR FRIENDS
One evening last spring we sat down together to listen to our old albums with the purpose of releasing 12 tracks for a "best of" disk of our hard to find songs. After a laugh or two over the "Donald Duck" tone of our young voices, we realized there were some great songs that we had forgotten all about. As someone said that night, "there's a bunch of gems there." The more we listened to the old versions, the more new ideas for arrangements and instrumentation emerged. The real problem was about to start — how to get a group of Irishmen to agree to any thing, never mind selecting 12 songs out of approximately 300. After a few "civil" discussions and not so few Guinnesses, we managed to pick 32 of our favourites, at which point everyone refused to participate in the elimination of any more songs, out of love and respect for the material and the fact that the Guinness was now gone. Well, to end this artistic and cultural evening we not only decided on 32 tracks, we also decided to re-record them. We hope you get as much pleasure out of listening to these songs as we did redoing them. They've brought back many happy memories for us and hopefully they'll do the same for you. Enjoy.
THE IRISH ROVERS
GEORGE MILLAR — SEPTEMBER/96
Alternate releases
"Irish Rovers' Gems" has more or less being re-released twice; as "Ramblers and Gamblers" & "Collection". In both cases songs were omitted…
Songs omitted from "Ramblers & Gamblers"
Bonnets Of Bonnie Dundee
Muirsheen Durkin
The Gallant Forty-Twa
Farewell To Carlingford (T. Makem)
Three Jigs
Lily The Pink
The Bonnie Lass Of Fyvie
Donald Where's Your Trousers (A. Stewart)
Young Roddy McCorley
Three Reels
Weigh, Hey & Up She Rises
Rolling Home To Ireland (G. Millar)
Songs omitted from "Collection"
Bonnets Of Bonnie Dundee
Liverpool Lou (D. Behan)
Come By The Hills (W. G. Smith)
The Gallant Forty-Twa
No Nay Never
Farewell To Carlingford (T. Makem)
I'm A Rambler I'm A Gambler
The Bonnie Lass Of Fyvie
Mountain Tay (S. McCarthy)
Sweet Strabane
Young Roddy McCorley
Wild Mountain Thyme
Three Reels
Weigh, Hey & Up She Rises