Woman of the House
Encyclopedia
Woman of the House, an album by Cherish the Ladies
, was released in 2005 on the Rounder Records
label.
Cherish the Ladies
Cherish the Ladies is an American all-female Irish-American super group. The band began as a concert series in New York in January 1985, the brainchild of Mick Moloney who wanted to showcase the brightest female musicians in America in what had been a male-dominated scene...
, was released in 2005 on the Rounder Records
Rounder Records
Rounder Records, originally of Cambridge, Massachusetts, but now based in Burlington, Massachusetts, is a record label founded in 1970 by Ken Irwin, Bill Nowlin and Marian Leighton-Levy, while all three were still university students...
label.
Track listing
- Reels: "The Jolly Seven/The Rascal on the Haystack/Bonkers in Yonkers" – 3:52
- "Sweet Thames Flow Softly" – 5:21
- Jigs: "Carolan's Favorite Jig/The Rakes of Cashel/Highland March in Oscar and Lucinda" – 4:55
- "Bogie's Bonnie Belle" – 5:15
- "Woman of the House Medley: The Fairy Queen/The Gooseberry Bush/Paddy Kelly's/Woman of the House" – 5:18
- "The Hills of New Zealand" – 4:43
- "Betsy Belle and Mary GrayBessy Bell and Mary GrayBetsy Bell and Mary Gray are "twa bonnie lassies", the subject of one of the Child Ballads.According to the ballad, Betsy and Mary were daughters of two Perthshire gentlemen, who in 1666 built themselves a bower to avoid catching a devastating plague...
" – 3:44 - "Fair and Tender Ladies" – 5:07
- Slip Jigs: "Paddy O'Snap/Robin Kelegher/The Cover of Cork" – 3:44
- "The Green Fields of Canada" – 6:31
- Reels: "The Old Maids of Galway/The Sunny Banks/The Flooded Road to Glenties/Free & Easy" – 3:43