Press Gang: Sweet Life CD Track Listing

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Press Gang Sweet Life (1994)
This folk cd contains 13 tracks and runs 56min 57sec.
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1. Press Gang - The Hag at the Churn/The Guns of the Magnificent Seven (03:41)
   A Rather uncomplimentary title of an old standard jig which we took the liberty of trying in a different key. \nIt seems to work well enough.\nThe reel which follows it is also known as The syncopated reel - Garuentted to throw unwary rythm players in a s
2. Press Gang - Parrallel Lines (04:44)
   This song is about human foibles.
3. Press Gang - The Rights of man/Jenny's Welcome to Charlie (04:41)
   An attractive hornpipe popular in Australia, Followed\nby a reel which is sometimes also known as The Long Note.\n
4. Press Gang - 'S
   The air on an old Irish song which translates as The Cause of My Sorrow. We\ntried to make David learn the words and he said fine as long as we send him on\nan all expenses paid tour of Ireland to learn the language and study Sean Nos\nsinging. Maybe next
5. Press Gang - Sweet Life (04:34)
   This is the first song The Fling managed to extract out of me soon after I joined\nthem in February 1994. The process was a bit like extracting a tooth as my\nconfidence as a song writer was not that great at the time. This song grew\nfrom the undercurr
6. Press Gang - Bernard on the Reek (02:50)
   The late Bernard Moran of Westport, who dies suddenly and tragically earlier\nthis year, was a close friend of Ina Kelly. One of the last times Ormonde and Ina\nmet him was at the foot of Croagh Patrick, known locally as The Reek, while on\ntheir honeymo
7. Press Gang - Miss You (03:36)
   This song was conceived at a Push Humpty rehersal which is the band I was in\nprior to The Fling. I was suffering a particularly bad bout of melancholy at this\nrehersal and when singer Dave Wier started playing a very melancholic chordal\npattern on his
8. Press Gang - Eleanor Plunkett (04:18)
   Eleanor Plunkett is one of the well known (In Australia at least)\ncompositions of the Harper Turlough (1670-1738). Written in honour of\none of his many patrons, his is said to have been interrupted during the\ncomposition of the song by the lady's coach
9. Press Gang - The John Wayland set (03:52)
   One of Australia's more significant musical immigrants was John Wayland from\nGould cross Co. Tipperary. A renouned player of both the uillean pipes and\nwarpipes, he founded the cork pipers' club in 1898, the first such club in the world\nand was hailed
10. Press Gang - The Copperplate/ The old Copperplate/The Fisherman's Lilt (04:31)
    Two more reels from Co. Clare, this time from the repertone of concertina player\nPaddy Murphy. The Fisherman's lilt is a good example of those tunes with half a\ndozen different names and which is related to several other tunes. I would refer\nthe intere
11. Press Gang - Black Clouds (04:25)
    this is a song about weather or pollution. It could be a song about a\nsitting in parliment but it's not. It's simply about two people trying to relate to\neach other at the end of a relationship and the purging of ill feelings.\n
12. Press Gang - Drowsie Maggie/The Laurel tree/Tommy's Peoples' (04:29)
    The first tune in this set of reels is one with an enduring quality and a simple\nmelody which, unlike many Irish tunes, does not seem to have changed much\ndown the years. A standard tune in the repertoire of Australian/Irish musicians,\nthe version comm
13. Press Gang - Julia Delaney/The Foxhunters' Reel/The Gravel Walks (06:49)
    Without doubt the most popular set of Irish tunes to have been performed in Perth\nin recent years. It is rare indeed in Australia for audiences to embrace a set of\ntunes so enthusiastically as to request the nightly. Reels par Excellence!\n