The Chieftains, Further Down the Old Plank Road - 55m 5s

Tracks & Durations

1. The Raggle Taggle Gypsy (with Nickel Creek)	3:09
2. Jordan Is A Hard Road To Travel (with John Hiatt)	3:29
3. Hick's Farewell (with Allison Moorer)	4:26
4. Shady Grove (with Tim O'Brien)	2:18
5. The Girl I Left Behind (with John Prine)	3:13
6. Rosc Catha Na Mumhain Arkansas Traveller The Wild Irishman (with Jerry Douglas)	4:19
7. Lambs In The Greenfield (with Emmylou Harris)	3:19
8. The Moonshiner I'm a Rambler (with Joe Ely)	3:13
9. Wild Mountain Thyme (with Don Williams)	3:55
10. Chief O'Neill's Hornpipe (with Cet Atkins)	1:55
11. Bandit Of Love The Cheatin' Waltz (with Carlene Carter)	3:13
12. The Squid Jiggin' Ground Larry O'Gaff (with Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)	3:15
13. Three Little Babes (with Patty Loveless)	4:09
14. Fisherman's Hornpipe The Devil's Dream (with Doc Watson +)	2:10
15. Talk About Suffering Man Of The House (with Ricky Skaggs)	4:34
16. The Lily Of The West (with Rosanne Cash)	4:21

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Review

As on Another Country (1992) and The Old Plank Road (2002), the venerable Irish acoustic band celebrates the shared sources of Celtic music and America's Appalachian folk/old-timey/bluegrass canon. That several of the guest players are veterans of all three sets lends a note of continuity to the palpable joy of discovery that fairly leaps from every track. Highlights are non-stop, but Allison Moorer's doom-laden vocal on "Hick's Farewell" raises goose-flesh, as does Emmylou Harris' "Lambs In The Greenfield," while Don Williams' treatment of an old Scottish ballad, "Wild Mountain Thyme," reveals a sturdy, unsentimental masculinity. The Chieftains are generous hosts throughout, often taking a back seat so their collaborators may shine. A poignant note: harpist and multi-instrumentalist Derek Bell, a longtime Chieftains member, died just after the Plank Road sessions were completed. That these were destined to be among his final recordings makes them all the more worthy of treasuring. --Christina Roden

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Further Down the Old Plank Road

Tracks: 16, Disk length: 55m 30s (+0m 25s)

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