Track Listing

1. Scalliwag
2. Me & The Moon
3. Never Drink 'Em Dry (Johnny Tarr's Funeral)
4. The Devil Down Below
5. Dia Luain, De Mairt
6. Bare In The Basin
7. Kelly's Wellies
8. Slingshot
9. Hello Monday
10. The Long Way Home
11. The Salt Lick
12. Don't Go For The One
13. Tornado Alley
14. Kiss Me I'm Irish

Product Details

• Released on: 2006-07-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

Whether or not you "Bring Yer Wellies" get Gaelic Storm's latest album
We saw Gaelic Storm last week at the Big Top Chautauqua and since they only had copies of their last three CDs on sale at intermission that was all we can buy. "Bring Yer Wellies" is the most recent album from the group and the one that we are listening to the most. "Kiss Me I'm Irish" has become my favorite song of the week, which is ironic because my wife is the one who is Irish (and it is not like she ever breaks into operatic arias in Italian), and I am sure it will be their final encore song for several years. Surprisingly they did not seem to have a "Kiss Me I'm Irish" t-shirt, but they did have one with the punch line for "Kelly's Wellies," Wellies being the nickname for the rubber Wellington boots that are a staple of Irish school children. You have to love a group that has several song specific t-shirts, but having seen the Big Top completely filled for their return visit it becomes clear that once is not enough to see Gaelic Storm before (and it follows one CD would be insufficient to help you fill the interim period until you get to see them live again).

Like most people we first heard of Gaelic Storm as the steerage band in "Titanic," but you would recognize them as such more by their sound than their look, since they had a different fellow playing the Highland bagpipes in the movie than they do now. For that matter, they have a different lass playing the fiddle in the group now and a quick look at their history indicates a lot of changes in the who and how many make up the band. Right now they are down to five, with Patrick Murphy and Steve Twigger continuing to be the heart and soul of the group, especially on stage where the pair do virtually all of the talking and most of the singing. But when they play traditional songs like "Sling Shot" and especially "Tornado Alley" you certainly remember seeing them for the first time in the movie. But they also have instrumental numbers that move in different directions, as is the case with the bagpipe driven "The Salt Lick."

But after seeing Gaelic Storm in concert the songs you most want to hear again are those you enjoyed in the concert. "Scalliwag" contrasts verses that sound like a sea chanty with a melodic chorus that reminded me of Toad the Wet Sprocket at their best. "Me and the Moon" is a big sing-a-long song, with the audience divided for the chorus. For drinking songs there is another Johnny Tarr song, "Never Drink 'Em Dry," and "Don't Go for 'The One." The only complaint with the album, having seen the group perform live from the vantage point of the second row, is that Patrick Murphy's delivery of the punch line at the end of that last one a whole lot better in person than it is on the CD. The album made it all the way to #2 on the Billboard World Music chart. That makes perfect sense when you hear a song like "Dé Luain, Dé Máirt" while sounds like the island it comes from is located somewhere in the Caribbean and not west of Scotland. At their heart they are a Celtic/Irish band, but they also go in some interesting musical directions, all of which you should enjoy as much as we did (and do).