A diversified, mostly Celtic album, with 23 Irish, 2 Scottish, 3 English, 1 French Canadian, and 2 tunes from the U.S.A.  There are reels, jigs, hornpipes, marches, and eight slow aires. 

There are four tunes with vocals: Lady Mary, a song of unrequited love; The Minstrel Boy, a musician's lament to war; one verse of the Kerry Dance, a very popular 19th century Irish song; and the last song on the album is The Blessing of Love, or The Irish Blessing.  Pam Kirby sings lead and Kay Thomas, harmony, on these songs.  They both were regular performers on the N.P.R. radio show, At Home In the Country. 

The instruments include the fiddle, flute, fife, penny whistle, guitar, bass violin, tenor banjo, mandolin, and percussion.  The hammered dulcimer is the lead instrument. 

Produced by Joe Jewell for Featherstone Music
Engineered & mastered by Jon Raney
Digital Mastering and Graphic design at Raney Recording Studio
    PO Box 17, Drasco, Arkansas, 72530 (870) 668-3222

1)   Carolan's Ramble to Cashel
2)   Kitchen Girl/New Rigged Ship
3)   Lord Inchiquin
4)  Lady Mary
5)  Kesh Jig/Rakes of Kildare/Tobin's Jig 6)  The British Grenadiers/Scotland the Brave
7)  Sheebeg and Sheemore
8)  LaBastrangue/Cold Frosty Morning
9)  Southwinds/Captain O'Kane
10)  Morpeth Rant
11)  Kerry Dance

12)  Planxty Irwin
13)  Haste to the Wedding/Irish Washerwoman
14)  The William Tell Overture Rossini
15)  Star of the County Down
16)  Red-Haired Boy
17)  Nancy's Waltz
18)  Whiskey Before Breakfast/Drowsy Maggie
19)  Give Me Your Hand
20)  The Minstrel Boy/Garryowen
21)  Off to California/Rights of Man
22)  Blessing of Love

• Joe Jewell -Hammered Dulcimer, Mandolin, Cittern and Guitar
• Bob Murphy - Mandolin, Cittern, Tenor Banjo, Dobro and Lead Guitar
  
• Bob Bielefeld - Wooden and Silver Flutes, Fife, REcorder, Tin Whistle
• DeeAnn Gillispie -Fiddle

• Malcom Smith - Viola
• Martha Gay - Harp
• Dennis Crouch - Upright Bass
• Pam Kirby - Lead Vocal [#4, 11, 19a & 21]
• Kay Thomas - Harmony Vocal [#4, 11, 19a & 21]
• Jon Ramey - Percussion
• Chuck Hughes - Snare Drum