Saloon Sessions - David Wilkie and Cowboy Celtic

The Saloon Sessions marks the 10th anniversary of the first Cowboy Celtic recording, released in late 1995. That recording was the culmination of several years of looking into the Scottish and Irish origins of various well known traditional cowboy tunes. This was not a new concept, but I had wanted to bring some of my favourite old cowboy songs together with their original Celtic style of music. In addition to the musical connection between the Celtic world and the West, there is also a 'cattle connection'. The Scots and Irish have a centuries-old cattle culture, and they played a large part in developing the cattle industry in North America. So for me, this music forges a link between the ancient Celtic cattle culture and the more recent one of the North American West. - David Wilkie

Selections

1. Buffalo Gals / The Old Chisholm Trail / The Blacksmith's Reel Listen .mp3
2. The Pearl Listen .mp3
3. Cowboy Ceilidh /High Noon Listen .mp3
4. Lorena /Yellow Rose of Texas/ Field of the Yellow-Haired Lad
5. O'Carolan's Quarrel with the Landlady
6. Maxwell's Thorns
7. The Water is Wide (OWaly Waly)
8. Hewlett
9. Annie Laurie
10. I'd Like to Be In Texas When They Round Up In the Spring / The Maid Behind the Bar
11. Carrickfergus / Summer Ranges
12. Shenandoah
13. The Cowboy Waltz / Tommy Bhetty's Waltz / The Westfalia Waltz
14. Ladies of Scatwell (Boircannaich Scaitil)
15. Buffalo Skinners / Clifford's Polka
16. Craigellachic
17. The Trail to Mexico / In the Tap Room / The Banshee
18. Mandocarolan
19. Aura Lea
20. The Gal I Left Behind Me
21. Leaving Stoer