Live Wizardry Explained

Live Wizardry
Type:	live
Artist:	Silly Wizard
Cover:	Silly_Wizard_-_Live_Wizardry.jpg
Released:	1988
Recorded:	1983
Genre:	Celtic, Traditional, Folk
Length:	64:20
Label:	Green Linnet
Prev Title:	A Glint of Silver
Prev Year:	1986
Next Title:	Live Again
Next Year:	2012

Live Wizardry is an album by Silly Wizard recorded live in concert at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1983. Live Wizardry was released by Green Linnet Records in 1988 and contained all but two of the tracks released in 1985 on the live albums Golden Golden and Live in America. The omitted tracks are both instrumental medleys: "Mac's Fancy / The Cliffs Of Moher / "The Rose Of Red Hill / Clootie Dumplings / The Laird O' Drumblair / Sleepy Maggie" from Golden Golden ^[1] and "The Green Fields Of Glentown / The Galtee / Bobby Casey's Number Two / A.B. Corsie (The Lad From Orkney)" from Live in America.^[2]

Track listing

"Queen of Argyll"
"Mrs. Martha Knowles / The Pitnacree Ferryman / The New Bob"
"The Parish of Dunkeld / The Curlew"
"The Valley of Strathmore"
"Miss Shepherd / Sweeny's Buttermilk / McGlinchy's Reels"
"The Ramblin' Rover"
"Blackbird"
"Scarce O'Tatties / Lyndhurst"
"The Banks of the Lee"
"Donald McGillavry"
"Golden, Golden"
"The Humours of Tulla / Toss the Feathers / Saint Anne's Reel / Lexy McAskill / The Limerick Lasses / Jean's Reel"
"Broom of the Cowdenknowes"

Personnel

Phil Cunningham - Accordion, vocals, Mandola, flute
Johnny Cunningham - Fiddle
Andy M. Stewart - Banjo, lead vocals
Gordon Jones - Guitar, vocals, Bodhran
Martin Haddon - Bass, synthesiser

Release history

Year	Type	Label
1993	CD	Green Linnet
1993	CS	Green Linnet
1993	LP	Green Linnet
1988	LP	Green Linnet

Notes and References

"The Session: Recordings - Golden, Golden by Silly Wizard" http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/1450. Accessed 2010-08-12
"The Session: Recordings - Live in America by Silly Wizard" http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/2023. Accessed 2010-08-12