Another Son (album)

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Another Son
Another Son cover
Studio album by Four to the Bar
Released June 1995
Recorded February 1995
Genre Celtic
Folk
Folk Rock
Label Independent
Producer(s) Four to the Bar
Four to the Bar chronology
Craic on the Road
(1994)		 Another Son
(1995)


Another Son was the second full-length album, and final recording, by Four to the Bar, released in 1995.

The album was a radical departure from their first, 1994's Craic on the Road, and indeed from all prior assumptions. Craic was a live album, and a faithful representation of what long-time fans had come to expect (that is, rowdy, alcohol-fueled Irish standards with occasional glimmers of transcendance), but Another Son revealed all four members of Four to the Bar to be gifted songwriters and composers. The album overall also demonstrates a depth, savvy, and sophistication not normally associated with the type of act that the band had been considered, and reviews were unanimously glowing.

As the program for the CD release party observed:

Four to the Bar's musical development has progressed virtually in proportion to the exponential growth of its audience and influence. On any given night, the band is equally as likely to open a set with a piano-inflected love song, an Appalachian-bluegrass banjo rave-up, or an old Irish folk standard…. Another Son reveals Four to the Bar as a musical force of distinction, an airtight alliance of individual musicians, each assisting each in making his creative mark in the areas of performance and songwriting/composition.

The band is listed as producing the album, but in time it became clear that the textured arrangements and exquisite production were largely the work of guitarist Martin Kelleher and bassist Patrick Clifford. Engineer Tim Hatfield has also been credited with playing a significant role in the success of the record.


Contents

[edit] Track Listing

  1. The Newry Highwayman (Traditional)
  2. Another Son (Kelleher)
  3. The Western Shore (Clifford)
  4. Shelli Sullivan's/Passing My Time/Marie Harvey's Delight (O'Neill)
  5. NY's for Paddy (Yeates)
  6. Something's Come In (Kelleher)
  7. Catch the Wind (Donovan)
  8. World Turned Upside-Down (Rosselson)
  9. The Shores of America (Kelleher)
  10. The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water (W.B. Yeats (lyrics); Clifford (music))
  11. Skibbereen (Traditional)
  12. Getting Medieval (Traditional)
  13. No Matter Where You Go (Kelleher)

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Production

  • Produced by Four to the Bar
  • Engineered by Tim Hatfield
  • Recorded at O'Neill's Irish Castle, Poughkeepsie, NY
  • Mixed at Mastermix Recording, New York, NY
  • Mastered at Steller Productions, New York, NY
  • Manufactured and printed by Disc Makers, USA

[edit] References

[edit] External links

[edit] Trivia

  • "Something's Come In" was covered by the McKrells (from Saratoga Springs, NY) on two separate albums: 1997's Better Days and 1999's The McKrells Live.
  • "The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water" is a W.B. Yeats poem set to music.
  • "No Matter Where You Go" was rehearsed for weeks as a bluegrass number, and only changed to the albums’ "Celto-Calypso" version during the recording sessions.
  • The title of "Getting Medieval" was taken from the dialog of the film Pulp Fiction.
  • An early version of "Passing My Time" appeared on the band's 1993 EP.
  • "NY's for Paddy" was the first song that David Yeates ever wrote.
  • "NY's for Paddy" appears in iTunes' "Essential St. Patrick's Day Music" collection.
  • Rossbeigh, referenced in "The Western Shore," is a beach in Glenbeigh, Co. Kerry, songwriter Patrick Clifford's ancestral home.
  • "Skibbereen" is dedicated to Martin Kelleher's parents.
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