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The Duhks

by The Duhks
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Product Details

Media: Audio CD
Release Date: Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Label: Sugarhill [Country]
Average Customer Review: 0 Based on 0 reviews.
Sales Rank: 452

Tracks

1.	Mists of Down Below/Meghan Hayden's
2.	Temps Que J'+tais Jeune/Gabriella's Jig
3.	True Religion
4.	Wagoner's Lad
5.	You and I
6.	Magnolia Set: Islay Ranters Reel/Fleur de Mandragore/Bull Moose/Isaac H
7.	Love Is the Seventh Wave/The Arch of Abundant Love
8.	Gene's Machine: Mary McMahon's/Pretty Little Indian/Sligo Creek/The Dub
9.	Four Blue Walls
10.	Everybody Knows
11.	Dregs of Birch: Slip Jig/The Dregs of Birch/Eleanor Day's #1
12.	Dover, Delaware
13.	Death Came a Knockin'
14.	Dance Hall Girls/Bozeemon Boogie

Editorial Review

Celtic fiddles, Irish reels, old-time banjo, gospel vocals, and Latin percussion forge a common spirit within the uncommonly vibrant fusion of the Duhks (pronounced "ducks"). The young band from Winnipeg casts a wide net over traditional influences, breathing fresh life into the age-old balladry of "The Wagoner's Lad," generating a dynamic tension between the soulful depth of Jessica Havey's vocals and Tania Elizabeth's fiddle on a pair of spiritual standards ("Death Came a-Knockin'" and "True Religion"), and keeping the dance floor jumping with their sprightly instrumental medleys. Though the Canadian quintet doesn't feature much original material, they extend their interpretive reach to contemporary songs as well, with the desperate edge of Ruth Ungar's "Four Blue Walls" providing a bracing change of mood, while the bittersweet rendition of Paul Brady's "You and I" (with the songwriter on harmony vocals) carries the musical interplay beyond the traditional realm. (Their attempt at fellow Canadian Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows" represents a rare misstep, lacking both the droll humor and the dark fatalism of the original.) Banjo iconoclast Béla Fleck coproduced the album, championing the Duhks as fellow trailblazers who use traditional elements to create a sound all their own. --Don McLeese

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