Word of Mouth

The House Band | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 5, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Green Linnet
• ASIN: B000005CSG
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #325,367 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Walls Of Troy

2. The Dusty Miller/The County Ground

3. Lady Mary Hay's Favourite Scotch Measure/Triti Puti

4. Wild Roving

5. An Dro D'Ogham/An Dro/Au Place De Serbie

6. The Happy One-Step/Green Willis

7. From A Distance

8. The Peacock/Moldavian Song

9. The Bonny Light Horseman/The Highland Brigade At Magersfontein

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Statements of Purpose, August 27, 2002

By 

"tallskinnykid" (Lambertville, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Word of Mouth (Audio CD)

This album, which I believe is the band's sophomore work, was my introduction to The House Band.
The tracks are even, and well-played. Some tunes are traditional, some quite new. All the lyrical songs are played in a soothing, contemplative down-tempo style, and many are mournful-sounding. The overarching theme of the music selected for the album is anti-war pieces; most poignant are the opener track, Walls of Troy, which speaks against war-hawk nations and national opinion, and the closer, Bonnie Light Horseman, which is the song of a woman whose man has been killed in retreat during the Boer War in South Africa.
The non-vocal tunes, liberally intermixed with lyric songs, are upbeat and very danceable (assuming you can jig!), and easily save the album from being uniformly depressing.