01 - Trad. Reels 7:27
02 - Collean Ollin 3:32
03 - Leave it all Behind 4:37
04 - See You Below in the Morning 5:33
05 - Instrumental 4.10
After having posted the Drovers' debut album, now I am posting a bootleg.
(Taken from their website) The Drovers was formed in 1988. After adding and subtracting members over the next two years, the band recorded its first album - "World of Monsters" - with drummer Jackie Moran, guitarist Mike Kirkpatrick, bassist/vocalist David Callahan, floutist/vocalist Kathleen Keane, and fiddler Sean Cleland. Winston Damon (aka Stone Ulele) joined the group late in the recording and can be heard playing percussion on track no. 10.
The group toured for the next couple of years with this ensemble, but at last Kathleen decided to part ways and then Jackie excused himself. The group went back to work as a four-piece and produced an EP, titled "Kill Mice Elf."
By this time, the band had drawn the attention of director Michael Apted ("Gorillas in the Mist," "Coal Miner's Daughter," "Seven Up") and were cast in the thriller "Blink" (1994 - New Line Cinema) performing as themselves with the addition of the fictional character (played by Madeleine Stowe) around whom the story revolved. A soundtrack recording was released and the band won acclaim for its contributions.
The Drovers continued touring and such, then convened in 1995 at the studio of producer Steve Albini to record "Little High Sky Show". This recording featured longtime drummer Paul Bradley, who has since left the group to pursue his internet business. The group also recorded in Minneapolis with Tommy Roberts and with Chicago engineers Bob Weston and Jeff Moleski.
2002 marked the Return of Jackie, and we are extremely excited about this development. Jackie, as you will recall from paragraph one of this piece, was the original Drovers drummer who appears on the cover of World of Monsters.
DOWNLOAD:
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02 - Collean Ollin 3:32
03 - Leave it all Behind 4:37
04 - See You Below in the Morning 5:33
05 - Instrumental 4.10
After having posted the Drovers' debut album, now I am posting a bootleg.
(Taken from their website) The Drovers was formed in 1988. After adding and subtracting members over the next two years, the band recorded its first album - "World of Monsters" - with drummer Jackie Moran, guitarist Mike Kirkpatrick, bassist/vocalist David Callahan, floutist/vocalist Kathleen Keane, and fiddler Sean Cleland. Winston Damon (aka Stone Ulele) joined the group late in the recording and can be heard playing percussion on track no. 10.
The group toured for the next couple of years with this ensemble, but at last Kathleen decided to part ways and then Jackie excused himself. The group went back to work as a four-piece and produced an EP, titled "Kill Mice Elf."
By this time, the band had drawn the attention of director Michael Apted ("Gorillas in the Mist," "Coal Miner's Daughter," "Seven Up") and were cast in the thriller "Blink" (1994 - New Line Cinema) performing as themselves with the addition of the fictional character (played by Madeleine Stowe) around whom the story revolved. A soundtrack recording was released and the band won acclaim for its contributions.
The Drovers continued touring and such, then convened in 1995 at the studio of producer Steve Albini to record "Little High Sky Show". This recording featured longtime drummer Paul Bradley, who has since left the group to pursue his internet business. The group also recorded in Minneapolis with Tommy Roberts and with Chicago engineers Bob Weston and Jeff Moleski.
2002 marked the Return of Jackie, and we are extremely excited about this development. Jackie, as you will recall from paragraph one of this piece, was the original Drovers drummer who appears on the cover of World of Monsters.
DOWNLOAD:
www.mediafire.com/?yji2l5tyijz
World of Monsters was not their first release. They self-released an eponymous cassette in ~1991, cassette only. My copy never made it back to me after I loaned it to a friend one too many times. I've contacted the band about it, but they get downright surly about it. Heartbreaking.
ReplyDeleteHi, the eponymous cassette release referred to contained the rough mixes from the World of Monsters sessions. It is extremely rare as only a few hundred were printed so the band could get airplay prior to their first major St Patrick's show at Cabaret Metro. Along with an extra slow tempo version of Boys and the Babies, a few of the songs were mixed with the original guide vocals, one of which includes Ike Reilly, who left the band before the sessions were complete. Also missing are at least one of the final tracks that appear on World of Monsters. So it is not surprising if the band regretted the rush to print this and prefers instead that people listen to the finished album as they intended it to sound. Even before this cassette was another cassette which is basically the Flea Market show mixed down with some overdubs.
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