Lowlands (album)

Lowlands
Lowlands
Studio album by Susan McKeown
Released	2000
Recorded	2000
Genre	Folk
Length	52:09
Producer	Susan McKeown
Susan McKeown chronology

Lowlands is an album by Irish songwriter, and folk singer Susan McKeown, released in 2000.

The tracks on this album present an array of styles, including African, Appalachian, Middle Eastern and Irish. "Lord Baker" is often heard as fragment of a ballad, but here McKeown has included the full story, making this the longest track on the album. The Scots songs "The Dark Haired Girl" was translated into Irish by McKeown.

Track listing

All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.

"The Dark Haired Girl" (An Nighean Dudh) (sung in Irish)
"John Coughlin"
"The Hare's Lament"
"Slan agus Beannact/ Goodbye and Farewell" (sung in Irish)
"The Snows They Melt the Soonest"
"Nansi Og Ni Obarlain/ Young Nancy Oberlin" (sung in Irish)
"Lord Baker" [Lord Bateman. Child Ballad 53]
"Dark Horse on the Wind" (Liam Weldon)
"The Lowlands of Holland"
"Bonny Greenwoodside" [Child Ballad 20]
"To Fair London Town"
"The Moorlough Shore"

Personnel

Aidan Brennan – guitar
Mamadou Diabaté – kora
Johnny Cunningham – fiddle
Joanie Madden – whistle, low whistle
Matt Darriau – kaval, Irish flute, clarinet, bass clarinet
Ole Mathisen – clarinet
Jamshied Sharifi – synthesiser
Skuli Sverisson – electric bass
Benjamin Wittman – percussion)
Garry Leonard – guitar
Greg Anderson – bouzouki
Paddy League – bodhran
Todd Schietroma – cahones, shakers, caxixis, handclaps
Des More – guitar
Eilis Egan – box
Samir Chatterjee – tablas
Oliver Straus – handclaps
Wang Guowei – erhu
Eaman O'Leary – banjo
John Anthony – caxisis
The group Lunasa consisting of:
Donough Hennessy – guitar
Kevin Crawford – whistles
Sean Smyth – fiddle
Trevor Hutchinson – acoustic bass

The following appear on the track "To Fair London Town":

Michelle Kinney (cello)
Cillian Valelly (uilleann pipes)