Live Again (album)

Live Again is the twelfth album by Scottish folk band Silly Wizard. The album contains a complete recording of their 1983 live concert from Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The project was released exclusively through the Birnam CD Online Shop on 16 February 2012. It is the first release from the band in 24 years.
Overview
The performance on Live Again was originally recorded in October 1983 at Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Fiddler Johnny Cunningham, who had left the band to live in the United States, rejoined the band for the concert.
The concert recording and post-production was funded entirely by the band themselves, with accordion player Phil Cunningham personally taking charge of production back in Edinburgh. After the mixing was completed the recordings were licensed to companies in Scotland and the USA for release on vinyl and cassette. Originally the recordings were released as two separate albums, Golden, Golden and Live in America. In 1988 the American company released a shortened CD version as Live Wizardry, which omitted two of the instrumental sets from the original releases.
Bass player Martin Hadden remastered and repackaged the album, with David Shearer at Norwick Mastering in Wick digitally remastering them. The completed album was released exclusively through Birnam CD's Online Shop on 16 February 2012.
Track listing
# Reels: "The Green Fields of Glentown" / "The Galtee Reel" / "Bobby Casey's Number Two" / "A. B. Corsie: The Lad from Orkney" - 3:42
# "The Queen of Argyll" - 3:24
# "The Valley of Strathmore" - 7:16
# "The Parish of Dunkeld" / "The Curlew" - 4:09
# John & Phil - Reels: "The Humours of Tulla" / "Toss the Feathers" / "Saint Anne's Reel" / "Lexy Macaskill" / "The Limerick Lasses" / "Jean's Reel" / "The Musical Priest" - 9:10
# Reels: "Mrs Martha Knowles" / "The Pitnacree Ferryman" / "The New Bob" - 3:12
# "The Ramblin' Rover" - 3:18
# "The Banks of the Lee" - 4:53
# Reels: Miss Shepherd" / "Sweeney's Buttermilk" / "McGlinchey's Reel" - 3:50
# "Donald MacGillavry" / "O'Neill's Cavalry March" - 3:56
# "The Blackbird" - 7:49
# Jigs: Scarce o' Tatties" / "Lyndhurst" - 3:23
# "Golden Golden" - 4:53
# Jigs: "Mac's Fancy" / "The Cliffs Of Moher"; Reels: The Rose of Red Hill" / "Clootie Dumplings" / "The Laird o' Drumblair" / "Sleepy Maggie" - 7:11
# "The Broom o' the Cowdenknowes" - 6:35
Personnel
; Silly Wizard
* Johnny Cunningham - fiddle, vocals
* Phil Cunningham - accordion, whistle, keyboards, cittern, vocals
* Martin Hadden - electric bass, acoustic guitar, keyboards, vocals
* Gordon Jones - acoustic guitar, bodhran, vocals
* Andy M. Stewart - lead vocals, tenor banjo, whistles
; Production
* John Nagy (USA) - engineering
* Neil Ross (Scotland) - engineering, mixing
* David Shearer - digital re-mastering
* Martin Hadden - Live Again re-issue project co-ordinator
* Mike Garden (Birnam CD) - graphic design
* Silly Wizard - executive producers
* Alastair Clark - sleeve notes

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