Forerunner (album)

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Forerunner
The Cottars Forerunner.jpg
Studio album by
Released2006
Recorded2005
Genre International / Folk Celtic
Length41:52
Label Rounder Records
Producer Gordie Sampson, Allister MacGillivray
The Cottars chronology
On Fire
(2004)
Forerunner
(2006)

Forerunner is the third album by the Eastern-Canadian Celtic band The Cottars.

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Track listing

  1. Waterlily (Karine Polwart/Bay Songs Ltd., ASCAP) – 4:29
  2. Miss Casey Medley – 1:59
    • Miss Casey's Jig (trad., arr. Allister MacGillivray/Cabot Trail Music, SOCAN)
    • The Humours of Ballinafauna (trad., arr. Allister MacGillivray/Cabot Trail Music, SOCAN)
  3. Byker Hill (trad., arr. Allister MacGillivray/Cabot Trail Music, SOCAN) – 2:48
  4. Atlantic Blue Ron Hynes/Blue Murder/Sold For A Song, SOCAN) – 4:14
  5. Some Polkas – 3:14
    • Johnny Mickey's Polka (trad., arr. Allister MacGillivray/Cabot Trail Music, SOCAN)
    • Ballydesmond Polka (trad., arr. Allister MacGillivray/Cabot Trail Music, SOCAN)
    • The Magic Slipper Polka (trad., arr. Allister MacGillivray/Cabot Trail Music, SOCAN)
  6. Pat Works On The Railway (trad., arr. Allister MacGillivray/Cabot Trail Music, SOCAN) – 4:25
  7. Georgia Lee (Tom Waits-Kathleen Brennan/Jalma Music) – 4:34
  8. Sliabh Na mBan (trad., arr. Ciarán MacGillivray/Cabot Trail Music, SOCAN) – 3:04
  9. Home By Bearna (trad., arr. Allister MacGillivray/Cabot Trail Music, SOCAN) – 2:33
    • Jo MacPhee's Jig (Allister MacGillivray/Cabot Trail Music, SOCAN)
  10. Send Me A River (Sinéad Lohan/RykoMusic Ltd. MCPS) – 3:45
  11. Honeysuckle Medley – 4:10
    • The Honeysuckle Hornpipe (trad., arr. Allister MacGillivray-Roseanne MacKenzie/Cabot Trail Music, SOCAN)
    • The Dancing Strathspey (trad., arr. Allister MacGillivray-Roseanne MacKenzie/Cabot Trail Music, SOCAN)
    • Jenny Dang the Weaver (trad., arr. Allister MacGillivray-Roseanne MacKenzie/Cabot Trail Music, SOCAN)
    • The Randy Wife of Greelaw (trad., arr. Allister MacGillivray-Roseanne MacKenzie/Cabot Trail Music, SOCAN)
    • Crossing the Minch (trad., arr. Allister MacGillivray-Roseanne MacKenzie/Cabot Trail Music, SOCAN)
  12. Hold On (Tom Waits-Kathleen Brennan/Jalma Music) – 4:37

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