Special Reserve (Gaelic Storm album) explained

Special Reserve
Type:	compilation
Artist:	Gaelic Storm
Cover:	Special Reserve (album).jpg
Released:	August 19, 2003
Recorded:	2000–2003
Genre:	Irish folk music
Length:	49:08
Label:	Higher Octave
Producer:	Mark Miller, Jim Cregan, Shep Lonsdale, Steve Twigger, John Whelan, Gaelic Storm
Prev Title:	Tree
Prev Year:	2001
Next Title:	How Are We Getting Home?
Next Year:	2004

Special Reserve is a 2003 compilation album by Gaelic Storm.

Track listing

1. "Courtin' in the Kitchen"*
2. "Johnny Tarr"
3. "The Schooner Lake Set"*
4. "The Leaving of Liverpool"
5. "Drink The Night Away"
6. "After Hours At McGann's"
7. "Swimmin' In The Sea"
8. "Nancy Whiskey"*
9. "She Was The Prize"
10. "Johnny Jump Up / Morrison's Jig"
11. "Titanic Set"
12. "Tell Me Ma"
13. "Beggarman"

Asterisks indicate songs original to this album.

Personnel

• Patrick Murphy (Accordion, Spoons, Bodhrán, Harmonica, Lead Vocals)
• Steve Twigger (Guitar, Bouzouki, Mandolin, Lead Vocals)
• Samantha Hunt (Fiddle)
• Shep Lonsdale (Djembe, Doumbek, Surdo, & Various Other Percussion)
• Steve Wehmeyer (Bodhrán, Didgeridoo, Vocals)
• Tom Brown (Bagpipes, Tin Whistle, DegerPipes)

Additional musicians

• Deborah Clark Colón (Fiddle on Tracks 1, 3, & 8)

An incomplete greatest hits CD, it also has three new songs. Courtin' in the Kitchen, sometimes known as Capt. Kelly's Kitchen, is a catchy tune about male and female rogues. The Schooner Lake Set is the first by the band to feature bagpipes by the newest member of the band. Nancy Whiskey, also a traditional, is sung by the bodhran player and features electric pipes and a fast catchy set of verses about drinking.