Through the Fields: Fiddle Tunes From Midwest

Al Murphy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 19, 1997)
• Original Release Date: 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Global Village
• ASIN: B000001XKB
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #695,016 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Through the Fields

2. Duke of Fife's Welcome to Deeside

3. Pike's Pack

4. Grand Valley Waltz

5. Herman's Hornipipe

6. The Musical Priest

7. Crippled Turkey

8. Pacific Slope

9. Jig Medley: /The Unfortunate Rake/St. Patrick's Day in the Morning

10. Shelburne Reel

11. Best Old Coon Dog

12. Salty River Reel

13. The Weeping Heart

14. Katy Warren Breakdown

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars High energy on rarely played tunes, October 20, 2003

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This review is from: Through the Fields: Fiddle Tunes From Midwest (Audio CD)

As a a resident of Iowa City, I'm lucky enough to see Al Murphy play fiddle regularly with a wide variety of better-known musicians such as Greg Brown and Dave Moore. He has been a "sidemain" on recordings by many great musicians . On this CD, Al is front and center and playing a super high-energy fiddle on a great selection of rarely played old-time, bluegrass and a little Irish. Al is backed by his wife Aleta on bass, Warren Hanlin on guitar, Joe Peterson on Mandolin and the amazing banjo of ex-Blue Grass Boy Bob Black. You can tell that they all had a very good time cutting this album/CD. I particularly like The Musical Priest, Best Old Coon Dog and Grand Valley Waltz but it's all truly wonderful music. This is the kind of CD where, when you put it on for a party, folks start asking, "Hey, who is this?"