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Finest Kind of Sea Songs
A selection of 12 Sea Songs from Finest Kind's CDs, available as a .zip
download (mp3)Fair Maid Walking
Bay of Biscay
Jack The Jolly Tar
The Mermaid
The Lass That Loved a Sailor
Squid Jiggin' Ground
Thomas and Nancy
Claudy Banks
Lowlands Low
A Sailor's Life
No More Fish, No Fisherman
Bully in the Alley
All songs previously released on CD.
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Finest Kind of English Songs
A selection of great old English songs from Finest Kind's first 5 CDs
and Ian Robb's "From Different Angels", all sung in the trio's glorious
trademark three part harmony.
Available as a .zip download (mp3)
The Banks Of Sweet Primroses
Shepherds
Arise
Ye Mariners
All
Sussex Drinking Song
John Barleycorn
By the Green Grove
Song of the Lower Classes
Shepherd Of The Downs
April
Morning
Brigg Fair
Farmer's Boy
Bright Shining Morning
All songs previously released on CD.
The Old Sod Band: Grass Roots
FAM04 (2001)
Now only available as a "Virtual
CD" download with album notes and graphics
'Grass
Roots' is the first release by 'The Old Sod Band', the long time house
band at Ottawa Contra Dances. This recording covers a range of musical
roots from Quebec to Ireland, the U.S. and Scotland. Although primarily
traditional, the recording features some favorite original jigs, reels
and waltzes from around the globe. Fiddler Dan Schryer and concertina
player Ian Robb are joined by Ann Downey (bass, banjo, percussion), Ian
Clark (guitar), Philip Murphy (guitar, mandolin) and Tim Cutts
(mandolin, mandola, tenor banjo, nyckelharpa). A note for dancers- some
sets are long enough to be used at your bandless dances! Guest
appearances include Denis Lanctot, Don Kavanagh, Raj Mudhar and James
Stephens. Produced by James Stephens.
Julia
Delaney/Tam Lin/The Banshee
Miss Sarah McFadyen/Princess Nancy/Hills of Sharon
Far Away/Old Madera
Vingt Quatre Juin/Reel de Fauberg/Pointe au Pic
Margaret Brown's Favourite/Ben Keily's Delight/Pay the Reckoning
Johsefins Dopvals
Trip to Durrow/Paddy Ryan's Dream/Sheila Coyles
Sonny Brogan's/Brian O'Lynn/Blue Jay
Over Land and Sea/Reel Beatrice
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Finest Kind: Lost in a Song
FAM02: (1996)
Finest
Kind's debut 1996 release from Ian Robb, Shelley Posen and
Ann Downey. Lost in a Song is a collection of old and new songs from
Britain, Canada and the US, all delivered with Finest Kind's trademark
hair-raising vocal harmonies. The songs are about half-and-half capella
and accompanied, and the latter feature some very tasteful fiddle and
mandolin back-up from producer James Stephens, in addition to the trio's
own guitar, bass, banjo and concertina.
Available as a .zip download (mp3)
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The
Banks of Sweet Primroses Give me Just a Little More Time The Miner's Dream of Home Blue Mountain The Sussex Drinking Song The Night Pat Murphy Died The Storms May Roll the Ocean Goodnight-Loving Trail Only Remembered |
Fa-Sol-La
Going to the West A Handful of Maple Leaves Gower Wassail What Was I Supposed to Do I Heard the Bluebird Sing The Faded Roses of December A Pilgrim's Way |
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Finest Kind: Heart's Delight
FAM03: (1999)
Following
in the footsteps of Lost in Song, Finest Kind's second release
demonstrates once again why they are considered among the most exciting
exponents of vocal harmony on the scene. Like the first recording, this
one is crammed with a rich and varied mixture of mostly old songs from
Canada, England and the U.S., plus a few more recently penned gems
including a couple written by band members Shelley Posen and Ian Robb.
Includes guest appearances by Ian Clark, Ken Harper and James Stephens.
Available as a .zip download (mp3)
Produced by James Stephens.
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A Sailor's Life Fond Affection The Fugitive's Lament Jordan Jack Ashton If You Can't Get Five, Take Two Brigg Fair Someday You'll Call My Name April Morning |
In
Praise of Alcohol Down at the End of Memory's Lane Homeless Wassail The Mermaid Squid Jiggin' Ground Home in Pasadena No More Fish, No Fishermen Who Will Sing for Me |
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Finest Kind: Silks & Spices
FAM05:
(2003)
In the trio's own words:
Finest Kind’s
repertoire has so many sources, our musical closet so many skeletons,
and our performances so many opposing elements, there’s no neat summing
us up. “Folk music” serves as a point of departure, but in our case
obscures as much as it explains.
The best we’ve come up with is a slogan, “Old Songs in Close Harmony.”
But it too only partially covers the ground. Take the word “old:” on
Silks & Spices there’s blackletter-broadside
old, Napoleonic-days-of-sail old, Victorian Christmas and
golden-age-of-country-music old, Ottawa-Valley-logging and
early-American-sheet-music old, antiwar-protest, civil-rights, and
bellbottom-pants old—plus one song with a tune as old as Canada but
words written 136 years later.
As for “close harmony,” well, we’re often told that Finest Kind sounds
like no one else, but in our arrangements we hear the harmonic strains
of the Copper Family and Young Tradition, barbershop quartet and Sacred
Harp, doo wop and country brother duos, and many more. How can we bundle
that up in a nice neat phrase?
So we decided Silks & Spices was an apt
title for this album. Finest Kind is not one thing or another, but some of
each and every. Once you hear us, you understand what we do.
Produced by James Stephens, who also adds his instrumental
magic to the CD.
Available as a .zip download (mp3)
| Bright Shining Morning Fair Maid Walking At the End of a Long Lonely Day The Ten Dollar Bill The Maple Leaf Forever As I Roved Out Jack the Jolly Tar Shepherd of the Downs |
John Barleycorn Sweet Forget-Me-Not Shepherds Arise Blackest Crow The Painful Plough The Times They Are a-Changin' Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? |
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Finest Kind: For Honour & for Gain
FAM09: (2010)
On Finest Kind's fifth
album, Ian, Ann, and Shelley show what nearly two
decades of singing together sounds like: brilliant harmonies, innovative
arrangements, and immaculate performances that range over a vast expanse of
repertoire--old ballads and country classics, fun parodies, songs of protest
and heartbreak, and a cool, new Christmas carol. For Honour & For Gain is
half a capella, half accompanied, with instrumental honours courtesy of the
trio, plus Michael Ball, Jody Benjamin, Jeff McClintock, Brian Sanderson,
and James Stephens.
Produced by James Stephens.
Available as a .zip download (mp3)
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Bay of Biscay She Thinks I Still Care Claudy Banks Short Life of Trouble Thomas & Nancy Bully in the Alley He Comes Like Rain(Like Wind He Goes) Song of the Lower Classes Lowlands Low |
John Barleycorn Deconstructed Why Should I be Lonely? Tenting on the Old Camp Ground Christmas Trilogy The Lass That Loved a Sailor From Dover to Calais The Riley Boys Farm! Farm! By the Green Grove |
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