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Released
  
January 29, 2007

Artists
  
Kris Drever, Éamonn Coyne

Label
  
Compass Records

Producers
  
Éamonn Coyne, Kris Drever

Honk Toot Suite (2007)
  
Before the Ruin (2008)

Release date
  
29 January 2007

Genre
  
Folk music

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Recorded
  
Zwa Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland

Similar
  
Black Water, Mark the Hard Earth, Before the Ruin

Honk Toot Suite is a studio album by contemporary folk musicians Éamonn Coyne and Kris Drever, released on January 27, 2007 on Compass Records.

Contents

The album's liner notes state that: "On this recording we wanted to explore some of the different types of music that influence our playing and tickle our fancy. As well as recording traditional music of various countries we wanted to record some self-penned and some newly written tunes.

"The Viking's Bride" is written by Kris Drever's father, Ivan Drever.

Track listing

  1. "House Jigs"
  2. "Liam Doyle's"
  3. "The Rolling Waves"
  4. "Cailin an Ti Mhoir"
  5. "Lucy's Swamp"
  6. "Lucy Farr's"
  7. "Down in the Swamp" (Bela Fleck)
  8. "The Peninsula Set"
  9. "Ger the Rigger"
  10. "An Dro"
  11. "The Peninsula Man" (Simon Bradley)
  12. "The Viking's Bride" (Ivan Drever)
  13. "Lakeside Barndances"
  14. "Eddie Duffy's
  15. "The Stack of Oats"
  16. "Eddie Duffy's
  17. "Roscommon Reels"
  18. "Johnny Doherty"
  19. "Hughie's Cap" (Ed Reevey)
  20. "Roscommon Reel"
  21. "Walking in the Dew"
  22. "Glencoe to Gort"
  23. "The Lament of Glencoe"
  24. "Cooley's Jig"
  25. "Toss the Feathers"
  26. "Cock-a-Doodle"
  27. "Twenty Quid"
  28. "Paddy Fahey's"
  29. "Pretty Girls of Mayo"
  30. "Sean Reid's"
  31. "Honk Toot Sweet"
  32. "Tout Sweet" (Coyne)
  33. "Honk Toot" (Drever/Ian Carr)

Personnel

  • Kris Drever - guitar, vocals ("The Viking's Bride", "Walking in the Dew" and "Cock-a-Doodle"), producer
  • Éamonn Coyne - banjo, producer, cover design
  • Erik Laughton - bodhran ("House Jigs", "Lakeside Barndances", "Roscommon Reels, "Cock-a-Doodle" and "Honk Toot Sweet")
  • John Joe Kelly - bodhran ("Lucy's Swamp" and "Glencoe to Gort")
  • Manitoba McGillicuddy Barbershop Three - vocals ("Lakeside Barndances")
  • Koos Koos McAfferty - button accordion
  • Peter Rawson - mixing, pre-mastering
  • Randy Leroy - mastering
  • Louis DeCarlo - photography

    • Songs

    1House Jigs3:33
    2Lucy's Swamp4:20
    3The Pennisula Set4:16

    References

    Honk Toot Suite Wikipedia
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