Loading ...Gaelic Storm: “Cabbage”
Okay, in 2010 everyone knows who Gaelic Storm is, so I won’t bore you with all the biographies. I’ll get right to it: Gaelic Storm’s latest masterpiece “Cabbage” is over 52 minutes of some of the most inspired and up-tempo songs they’ve written.
Released on August 3rd, their eighth effort is chock-full of highlights and has obvious influences from their experiences from shows on ships (The Rock Boat, The Cayamo Songwriter’s Cruise, Ships & Dips) on such tracks as “Turn This Ship Around”, “Rum Runners” and “Jimmy’s Bucket”. (Don’t ask!) Also amongst the 14 tracks there are four instrumentals, which are some of my favorites.
The other standout tracks here for me include “Raised On Black & Tans”, where the lyrics exclaim, “I’ll tell you a few stories, and every one is true” (Patrick Murphy, being Irish of course, is well known to have a million stories) and “I’ve never been to Ireland, but I know it’s in my blood” which is sure to resound in everyone, regardless of their ancestry. “Chucky Timm” is yet another true story from their travels and reminds me of “Johnny Tarr” and is sure to become an instant classic in that vein.
Another cool track is a cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Cecilia”, off the beaten path for The Storm but they’ve managed to make it their own.
Take all of this and package it all up in a slick, well designed (by Twigger) and attractive cd package with cool liner notes and song descriptions and you have one heck of a head ‘o Cabbage. Buy this album & go out & “get your drinkin’ boots on”.
Song List
1. Raised On Black And Tans
2. Space Race
3. Cyclone McClusky
4. Blind Monkey
5. Green Eyes, Red Hair
6. Just Ran Out Of Whiskey
7. Jimmy’s Bucket
8. Cecilia
9. The Buzzards Of Bourbon Street
10. Turn This Ship Around
11. Rum Runners
12. Northern Lights
13. Crazy Eyes McGullicuddy
14. Chucky Timm
I love the new album, and what a great review SlainteSteve