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Swinging On A Gate

By Tony Elman


  1. Billy In The Lowground
    Swinging On A Gate
  2. Rory O’Moore
  3. Burning The Piper’s Hut
  4. Sally In The Garden
  5. Bonaparte Crossing The Rhine
  6. Lost Island
  7. La Bastringue
  8. Sally Goodin
  9. Liberty
    St. Anne’s
  10. The Greevequilla
    Crossing The Stream
  11. Ragtime Annie
    Shenandoah Falls
  12. Fisher’s
    The Battle Of New Orleans
  13. Paddy On The Turnpike
    The Star Of Munster
  14. Archibald McDonald Of Keppoch
  15. Eileen O’Carroll

Two comments

“Tony Elman: Swinging On A Gate”

“Traditional Music played on the Hammered Dulcimer and other instruments”
Acorn Music, AC003, Santa Monica, California, U.S.A., 1986

The musicians:

Tony Elman - hammered dulcimer, recorders, guitar
Richard Greene - violin
Tom Sauber - banjo, mandolin, fiddle
Buell Neidlinger - string bass
Barry Solomon - guitar, banjo-guitar
Paulette Gershen - tin whistle
Pete Grant - pedal steel guitar, dobro
Wendy Ultan - violin
J.J. Schoch - string bass

Swinging on a gate

I bought this cd because I found the tune list quite interesting - and I was not disappointed! The only hammered dulcimer player I had known before was Guy Caravan who played beautiful versions of little-known Southern mountain tunes like “The Great High Wind”. I´m not such a fan of this instrument´s sound but Tony Elman offers some very good arrangements and combinations of instruments. I especially like the versions of “Sally in the Garden”, “La Bastringue” and the slowed down version of “The Burning of the Piper´s Hut” (IS it slowed down?). A beautiful rediscovery of a cd made - amazingly! - in 1986. Sounds timeless!

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