Mike Vass

Mike Vass and Dave Wood · 2010

Wait What?

Fiddle and guitar, with Damien O’Kane, James Lindsay and Steve Fivey. Greentrax, June 2010.

Recorded and mixed Castlesound

Cover of Wait What?

The back of the sleeve

Produced
Mike Vass and Dave Wood
Recorded
Stuart Hamilton and Gary Boyle, Castlesound Studios, Pencaitland
Mixed
Stuart Hamilton, Mike Vass and Dave Wood
Mastered
Euphonic Masters, Arlington, Tennessee
Sleeve
Lillias Kinsman-Blake
Catalogue
Greentrax CDTRAX349

People

Dave WoodSteve FiveyJames LindsayDamien O’Kane

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Produced
Mike Vass and Dave Wood
Recorded
Stuart Hamilton and Gary Boyle, Castlesound Studios, Pencaitland
Mixed
Stuart Hamilton, Mike Vass and Dave Wood
Mastered
Euphonic Masters, Arlington, Tennessee
Sleeve
Lillias Kinsman-Blake
Catalogue
Greentrax CDTRAX349
Players
Mike Vass, fiddle · Dave Wood, guitar and bouzouki · Damien O’Kane, vocals, tenor banjo and guitars · James Lindsay, double bass · Steve Fivey, drums and percussion

The record

Sets of tunes, many of them Vass’s own, with a Damien O’Kane song, Hills of Donegal, in the middle. 42 Beech Avenue and Elizabeth’s Plymsoles are here, and a set named Three Steps to the Rusty Squash Horn, which gave its name to the studio and label that followed.

Tracks

  1. 01Wee Billy’s6:58

    the tune: St Kilda Wedding →

  2. 02Covering Ground6:26
  3. the tune →

  4. 043 Steps5:09
  5. 05Hills of Donegal4:22
  6. 06Gion’s5:57
  7. 07The Sutherland Set4:59
  8. 09March, Strathspey and Reel5:01

Cuttings

A line from each piece. Where the full piece is online, it is linked.

The Living Tradition

Review · Paul Burgess

“An album by musicians as good as Malinky’s fiddler (Mike Vass) and guitar/bouzouki player (Dave Wood) is always to be welcomed, and this does not disappoint.”

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