Another Son (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Another Son
Type = Album
Artist = Four to the Bar


Background = black
Released = June 1995
Recorded = February 1995
Genre = Celtic Folk Folk rock
Length =
Label = Independent
Producer = Four to the Bar
Engineer = Tim Hatfield
Reviews =
Last album = "Craic on the Road" (1994)
This album = "Another Son" (1995)
Next album = |

Another Son was the second full-length album, and final recording, by Four to the Bar, released in 1995.

The album was a radical departure from their first, 1994's "Craic on the Road".

The band is listed as producing the album. Engineer Tim Hatfield has also been credited with playing a significant role in the success of the record.

Track listing

#The Newry Highwayman (Traditional)
#Another Son (Kelleher)
#The Western Shore (Clifford)
#Shelli Sullivan's/Passing My Time/Marie Harvey's Delight (O'Neill)
#NY's for Paddy (Yeates)
#Something's Come In (Kelleher)
#Catch the Wind (Donovan)
#World Turned Upside-Down (Rosselson)
#The Shores of America (Kelleher)
#The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water (W.B. Yeats (lyrics); Clifford (music))
#Skibbereen (Traditional)
#Getting Medieval (Traditional)
#No Matter Where You Go (Kelleher)

Personnel

*David Yeates: Vocals, bodhran, flute, tin whistle, percussion
*Martin Kelleher: Guitar, bouzouki, five-string banjo, backing vocals
*Patrick Clifford: Bass guitar, piano, electric guitar
*Keith O'Neill: Fiddle, tenor banjo

Production

*Produced by Four to the Bar
*Engineered by Tim Hatfield
*Recorded at O'Neill's Irish Castle, Poughkeepsie, NY
*Mixed at Mastermix Recording, New York, NY
*Mastered at Steller Productions, New York, NY
*Manufactured and printed by Disc Makers, USA

References

* [http://www.4tothebar.com/tis/music/4tothebar/_records/ftb003program.htm "Another Son" Release Party Program]
* [http://www.4tothebar.com/tis/music/4tothebar/_press/dl.htm#9602 Winick, Steve, Review of "Another Son," "Dirty Linen Magazine," February/March 1996 (Issue #62)]
* [http://www.4tothebar.com/tis/music/4tothebar/_press/rr.htm Review of "Another Son," "Rock 'n' Reel" Magazine]

External links

* [http://www.4tothebar.com/ Four to the Bar official web site]

Trivia

*"Something's Come In" was covered by the McKrells (from Saratoga Springs, NY) on two separate albums: 1997's "Better Days" and 1999's "The McKrells Live."
*"The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water" is a W.B. Yeats poem set to music.
*"No Matter Where You Go" was rehearsed for weeks as a bluegrass number, and only changed to the albums’ "Celto-Calypso" version during the recording sessions.
*The title of "Getting Medieval" was taken from the dialog of the film "Pulp Fiction."
*An early version of "Passing My Time" appeared on the band's 1993 EP.
*"NY's for Paddy" was the first song that David Yeates ever wrote.
*"NY's for Paddy" appears in iTunes' "Essential St. Patrick's Day Music" collection.
*Rossbeigh, referenced in "The Western Shore," is a beach in Glenbeigh, Co. Kerry, songwriter Patrick Clifford's ancestral home.
*"Skibbereen" is dedicated to Martin Kelleher's parents.