Sae Will We Yet - the CD
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Hear sample mp3 tracks from the album here.
A commemorative CD comprising mainly unreleased material from one of Scotland's most innovative and influential traditional musicians
Comprising mainly previously unreleased material gathered from surviving private, concert and studio recordings, this album has at its heart tracks from a projected solo album of Scottish and Irish love songs. Tony worked on these recordings at home in Arlington throughout 2001 for as long as his health would allow, and the resulting takes were completed and mixed in Edinburgh in accordance with his instructions. The results are powerful proof of his genius.
The project would not have been possible without the generous contribution of skills, resources, advice and guidance from many individuals and organisations on both sides of the Atlantic, detailed in the sleeve notes. Executive producer Stuart Eydmann.
His unique guitar tunings and the style he evolved to accommodate the modalities of Scots and Irish music, the vocal modernism that could infuse yet sustain an ancient traditional song, and his knack for fitting entirely apposite tunes to words - they’re all here.
Listen out for his beautiful two-harp duet with fellow Ossian musician Billy Jackson, and the highly-charged ballad the ‘Water of Wearie’s Well’.
Norman Chalmers, Scotland on Sunday, 23 Mar 2003
"Tony Cuffe's music has inspired and influenced me since I first heard him over fifteen years ago. His untimely death in December 2001 deprived us of one of our great musicians: a hugely innovative guitarist from within the Scottish tradition and an interpreter of Scots song who made the idiomatic universal. He also became a good friend. During the time I knew him he lived with his family in Boston, Massachussets and his presence was deeply felt among the musical community there. This album contains many of the songs he was working on when he became ill and its release now will commemorate a huge contribution to our tradition."
Greentrax CDTRAX 243 (March 2003)
13 tracks: Tail Toddle * Angus G MacLeod / The Ewie Wi The Crookit Horn * Cairn o' Mount * The Girl That Broke My Heart / Mary McMahon * Kelvin's Purling Stream * Rachel Rae * The Bonny Lass * The Burning of the Piper's Hut * The Road to Drumleman * Caller Herrin' * The Water o' Wearie's Well * Hector the Hero / The Marquis of Huntly's Highland Fling * Sae Will We Yet.
Tony Cuffe (vocals, guitar, harmonium, harp) with Jerry O'Sullivan (uilleann pipes, whistle), Pat O'Gorman (flute), John Skelton (bodhran), Laurel Martin (fiddle), Derek Hoy (fiddle), Jenny Clarke (vocals), Norman Chalmers (whistle), Billy Jackson (harp) and other members of Jock Tamson's Bairns.
Greentrax Recordings, Cockenzie Business Centre, Edinburgh Road, Cockenzie, East Lothian EH32 0HL, Scotland, UK tel: +[44] 01875 814 155 fax: +[44] 01875 813 545
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