- Details
- Genre: Foreign
- Description: Most of the songs on this record are from the Inchout-portsInch of the Avalon peninsula of Newfoundland, settled by Irish immigrants during the Great Famine. Folklorist MacEdward Leach describes this record as Incha sampling of what one would hear sitting in an out-port kitchen after supper was cleared away. The neighbors would drift in, ease themselves on the benches around the walls, get pipes going, discuss all the events of the day - the state of the weather, the luck with the fish.Inch a few of the songs, sung a cappella, may be familiar to modern audiences, such as InchThe Farmyard,Inch a forerunner to the children's classic, InchOld MacDonald Has a Farm.Inch Liner notes include song lyrics and notes on songs. Album Tracks 1. Rolling Home 2. The Lass of Glenshee 3. The Farmyard 4. The Murder of Ann O'Brien 5. Lovely Nancy 6. The Derby Ram 7. The Nightingale 8. The Story of the Sealing Vessel 9. The Ghostly Fishermen 10. The Lost Jimmie Whalen 11. Franklin 12. The Tree 13. Finnegan's Wake, Version 1 14. Finnegan's Wake, Version 2
- Artist: Various Artists
- Title: Out-Ports Newfoundland / Various
- Format: CD
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 05/30/2012
- Genre: Foreign
- Number Of Discs: 1
- Other
- Product Name: Various Artists - Out-Ports Newfoundland / Various - COMPACT DISCS
- UPC: 093070407527
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