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Wind Against The Tide
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| The Laird of Drum |
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| Monymusk Medley |
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| Hieland Laddie |
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| Cape Breton Jigs |
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| John Barleycorn |
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| First Light |
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| Only Way Home |
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| Slave's Lament |
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| Melange Quebecois |
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| Far Away In Australia |
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| MacArthur Reel Set |
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| Three Men Went A-Hunting |
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| Rowing to Boyne |
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Complete tracks can be heard at JukeboxAlive.
The Atlantic Crossing debut album, produced by Pete Sutherland, features a strong contingent of tunes and songs from the Scottish tradition. The Laird of Drum tells how love transcends class boundaries, whilst Slave's Lament gives a little-known insight into Robert Burns' progressive views regarding slavery. Rick contributes a couple of compositions to this album: Only Way Home is his account of a hair-raising voyage through the eye of a hurricane, whilst his beautiful waltz First Light is still a favorite. The other original waltz is appended to Far Away In Australia: Viveka's Waltz was written by Peter before he even knew of her existence. Two of the songs, John Barleycorn and Three Men Went A-Hunting represent our early forays into the Helen Hartness Flanders Collection. Brian's feet are given an airing on the set of Quebecois reels, and, as a follow-up to the sea shanty Hieland Laddie, the reel Daldowny's features an unusual sound for Atlantic Crossing - three fiddles - as Pete joins Viveka and Peter.
The cover art is from the painting Wave Over Wave by Sarah Wesson of Ripton, VT.
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CDs are available by mail order from:
Brian Perkins (12 Decatur St, Burlington, VT, 05401) for $15 each plus $1.50 s&h for the first item and $0.75 per additional item. Please make your check payable to "Atlantic Crossing".
We have an online presence at MySpace,
and also have two Internet CD outlets with listening and on-line payment facilities:
CDBaby (Turning the Compass and Overtones & Undercurrents) & JukeBoxAlive (the first 4 recordings)
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