Music reviewers love to get that occasional cassette or CD they can rave about. This beautiful collection of Celtic-style
western music is such a recording. Through the masterful use of fiddles, mandolins, harps, flutes, whistles, and guitars,
a definite Celtic flavor has been applied to music that has become standard western fare.
High Noon, The Cowboy’s Lament, Buffalo Gals, The Old Chisholm Trail, Border Affair, Doney Gal and several other
great songs have been reinterpreted by David Wilkie and his crew of Irish, Scottish, Canadian, and American musicians.
Highlights of the album are Michael Martin Murphey singing The Cowboy’s Lament (Streets of Laredo) to what was
actually an Irish tune called The Bard of Armagh; and fair, lovely, and charming Denise Withnell lending her incredibly
melodious vocals to Bucking Bronco and Border Affair. David Wilkie, who has citizenship in both the United States and Canada, is not only a talented musician and song writer,
but also one of the reigning experts on the relationships between Celtic and cowboy music. And he is a scholar of the Scottish
cattle industry and its ties to ranching in America.
Wilkie’s refreshing and original cowboy Celtic music is extremely popular at cowboy poetry and music gatherings in Canada
and the United States.
Brilliantly conceived and delightfully performed, this music is not to be missed.
-Cowboy Magazine Review - Fall 1998
Cowboy Ceilidh ~
Western Music: by David Wilkie & Cowboy Celtic
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