After my divorce in 1996, I found myself living in a one bedroom penthouse apt on the 10th floor of Ashley Towers in downtown Macon, with a nice balcony view of St. Joseph's Catholic Church and all of west and southwest Macon. This transition also coincided with a newly discovered love for old Irish and Scottish folk songs, and in those days before the internet, if one heard a song, but could not understand parts of a lyric, one had to make special trips to the main branch of the library downtown, and pore over pages of forgotten rhyme to get to the piece of lyric being searched for. In one corner of the bedroom was a 4 track cassette multitrack recorder, a Peavey mixer, a mic, an acoustic guitar, and a very small Yamaha synth with those tiny keys that were almost too small for my fingers. That was how these songs were made, and preserved on cassette tapes until re-mastering took place in the winter of 2011. The songs are:
1) Going to Sligo
2) Do You Love an Apple
3) Kelvingrove
4) Will Ye Go, Love
5) Bonny at Morn
6) The Fair Flower of Northumberland
7) The Banks of Claudy
8) The Curragh of Kildare
9) The Rocks of Bawn
10) Farewell, Indiana
11) The Parting Glass
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