What's the Rumpus? explained

What's the Rumpus?
Type:	Album
Artist:	Gaelic Storm
Cover:	What's_the_Rumpus_Cover.jpg
Released:	July 8, 2008
Recorded:	2008
Genre:	Irish folk music
Length:	54:25
Label:	Lost Again Records
Producer:	Steve Twigger
Prev Title:	Bring Yer Wellies
Prev Year:	2006
Next Title:	Cabbage
Next Year:	2010

What's the Rumpus? is the seventh album by Celtic band Gaelic Storm. It was released on July 8, 2008 and reached #177 on the Billboard 200.^[1]

Track listing

All arrangements by Gaelic Storm.

1. "What's the Rumpus?" (Murphy, Twigger, Wehmeyer) - 3:59
2. "Lover's Wreck (Murphy, Twigger, Wehmeyer) - 3:56
3. "Darcy's Donkey" (Murphy, Twigger, Wehmeyer) - 3:04
4. "The Mechanical Bull" (Burns/trad.) - 4:24
5. "Human to a God" (Twigger, Wehmeyer) - 3:54
6. "Slim Jim and the Seven Eleven Girl" (Twigger) - 4:05
7. "Don't Let the Truth Get in the Way (of a Good Story)" (Murphy, Twigger, Wehmeyer) - 3:30
8. "The Samurai Set" (trad.) - 3:50
9. "Beidh Aonach Amárach" (trad./Sandy Mathers) - 4:11
10. "Death Ride to Durango" (trad.) - 4:34
11. "Faithful Land" (Murphy, Twigger, Wehmeyer) - 4:20
12. "If Good Times Were Dollars" (Twigger) - 3:10
13. "Floating the Flambeau" (Burns/Purvis/trad.) - 4:07
14. "The Night I Punched Russell Crowe" (Murphy, Twigger) - 3:16

Personnel

Gaelic Storm

• Patrick Murphy (vocals, accordion, spoons, harmonica)
• Steve Twigger (guitar, vocals, bodhran)
• Ryan Lacey (percussion, background vocals)
• Peter Purvis (Highland bagpipes, Uilleann pipes, Deger pipes, whistles, Trombone)
• Jessie Burns (fiddle, background vocals)

Additional personnel

• "Crazy" Arthur Brown (vocals on "What's the Rumpus?")
• Jeff May (bass)
• Lloyd Maines (pedal steel, mandolin, banjo)
• David Boyle (keyboards, accordion)

Notes and References

1. Web site: [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=gaelic storm|chart=all}} Gaelic Storm – What's the Rumpus? ]. . 2011-01-12.