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Chapter One

April 17, 2020 - Footnote Music Lumited

1. The Millhouse

2. Wild Atlantic

3. The Salt Mine

4. St Patrick's March

5. Neil Gow's Lament

6. Hidden Note

7. Drag the Lads

8. Last Night in Ennistymon

9. Foxhunters

10. The Long Walk

11. Up Ballina

12. The Kilfenora Barmaid

13. The Last Pint

14. Miss Rowan Davies

The Millhouse
The Millhouse (John Martin)

Wild Atlantic
The Mist Covered Mountain (Martin “Junior” Crehan) / The Rolling Waves*

Salt Mine Set
Wes and Maggie’s Ceilidh Croft (Leo McCann) / Freefalling (Michael McGoldrick) / Bright Star Over Sark (Michael McGoldrick)

St. Patrick’s March
St. Patrick’s Day*/Leslie’s March*

Neil Gow’s Lament
Neil Gow’s Lament on the Death of His Second Wife*

Hidden Note
Hidden Note (Diarmaid Moynihan)

Drag the Lads
Drag Her Round the Road* / The Lads of Laois* / With Ourselves (Johnny Harling)

Last Night in Ennistymon
South Wind* / Jim McAllister’s (Calum MacLean) / Out on the Ocean*

Foxhunter's
The Foxhunter's Reel*

Long Walk
The Rossmore Jetty (Fr "PJ" Kelly) / Boy in the Boat* / The Long Drop (Richard Twomey)

Up Ballina
Ballina Lasses* / Greig’s Pipes*

The Kilfenora Barmaid
The Kilfenora Jig* / The Roaring Barmaid (Tony "Sully" Sullivan)

The Last Pint
The Last Pint (Pierre Bensusan)

Miss Rowan Davies
Miss Rowan Davies (Phil Cunningham)


*traditional


 


 


 

Produced and Arranged by The Bookends

Recorded at Knox Church and Trew Studio, Stratford ON

Recording Engineered by John Hazen and Pete Watson

Mixed by Pete Watson at Trew Studio, Stratford ON

Mastered by Robert Nation at EMAC Recording Studio, London ON

Design by Cait Watson and Miriam Fischer

Logo design by Pete Watson

Photography by Michael Steingard (back), Miriam Fischer and Errol Fischer (inside)

Moon inflatable art installation by Museum of the Moon: Luke Jerram


 

Pete Watson plays Collings, Taylor, Gibson, and Fender guitars with Elixir Strings and Thalia Capos

Cait Watson plays Gene Milligan & Tony Dixon Whistles

Miriam Fischer plays Hohner accordions and whatever piano is available

Errol Fischer plays old violins with Thomastik Dominant Strings and Clareen tenor banjos

The Bookends use L.R. Baggs, BOSS, MXR, Radial, and Roland effects.

Recorded on Neumann and Shure microphones.

Copyright The Bookends & Footnote Music Limited 2025. Website design by Cait Watson. 

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