Take a Chance (Stockton's Wing album)

Take a Chance
Studio album by Stockton's Wing
Released 1980
Recorded Westland Studios Dublin
Genre Irish Folk
Label Tara Music label
Producer P.J. Curtis
Stockton's Wing chronology

Stockton's Wing
(1978)
Take a Chance Light in the Western Sky
(1982)
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Take a Chance was the second album from Stockton's Wing. It featured songwriter Mike Hanrahan on vocals. Mike's own compositions featured on the album were the start of the group's move away from the pure traditional music to a more contemporary style which later became their trademark. Maura O'Connell is also featured on backing vocals.

Track listing

  1. My Darling Asleep, Sonny Brogans - Jigs
  2. Boys of the Lough, Star of Munster - Reels
  3. Cameron Highlander's
  4. Take a Chance - Song
  5. Bill Harte's, Going to the Well for Water - Jig & Slide
  6. Fiddler John - Song
  7. The Frost Is All Over, Queen of the Rushes - Jigs
  8. The Post Man - Bodhran solo
  9. Ten Thousand Miles - Song
  10. Austin Tierneys, Hughie Travers, Jenny's Chickens - Reels & Jigs

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References

Record Label Catalogue 2009
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