Reviews

Reviews for the album: 

"This is an Orkney band featuring fiddle, banjo, mandolin, whistle and bass, and an excellent job they do of things. Not prepared merely to present standard versions of tunes, these boys take great delight in devising intros and outros which are inspired by sources as varied as The Animals, The Byrds and Fleetwood Mac. Sounds odd? - Not a bit - these arrangements are well-planned and well-executed, adding an extra interest to the tunes, which are all played to a very fine standard indeed.
The tunes themselves incorporate a lot of Shetland, Scottish, Irish and American numbers which are particularly suited to the instrumentation of the band, and most of the tracks fairly hoover along at a fair old rate. Not that these are a bunch of fast and furious freaks - they handle slower numbers such as Da Slockit Light with a sensitivity and feel for the music.
Congratulations, then, to Douglas Montgomery, Dick Levens, Jim Hall and John Adams for putting together a splendid CD with nearly an hour's worth of inspired music which just gets better and better with each listening.
Somehow, I get the feeling that this would be a first-class group to hear live, as their enthusiasm is as evident as their versatility. Nice one chaps."
Gordon Potter (Living Tradition Magazine www.livingtradition.co.uk)

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"The album cover (which is too detailed to display well here) shows a steam locomotive with an aggressive smile charging over one of the Churchill causeways in Orkney with the banjo player (Jim Hall), fiddler (Douglas Montgomery), bass player (John Adams) and electric mandolin player (Dick Levens) playing on the cow catcher. This is apt. This album comes charging down the track like a locomotive at full steam, and rides the musical tracks from Norwegian influenced tunes of Orkney to the bluegrass of Kentucky, to Appalachia, and back to Shetland, all done with enormous skill and fun. Like all good journeys, there are unexpected and marvelous things around each bend. This is one party train ride you do NOT want to miss. Highly recommended."

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"From beautiful Appalachian hoedowns and swinging blues to a hard driving Shetland Reel and their own compositions, a truly eclectic mix. Tracks include Fathers Farewell, Da Slockit Light and Albert Ross."
Shetland Times
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