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YOU CAN NOW DOWNLOAD skyhook MP3s from CDbaby,
please click on the album picture below


SKYHOOK: skyhook

... and you can still visit us at myspace to hear clips of these four tracks from our album.

A Rùm Fuar / Cup of Tea / The Shetland Fiddler
(C. James/ trad. / trad. arr. skyhook)
A Rùm Fuar (The Cold Room) is in Martin and Cath’s favourite bothy in a particularly beautiful corner of the Western Highlands. The Cup of Tea is an Irish classic, and The Shetland Fiddler is a Donegal reel closely related to The Hawk by fiddler James Hill.
Featuring Cath and Martin on fiddles, Eoin on guitar and a guest appearance from Mike Fleming on double bass.

Then and Now (C. James arr. skyhook)
A haunting slow air dedicated to friends past and present.

Green grass grows bonny (Traditional arr. skyhook / Lynch)
A tale of love and deception, unusual for being told by both protagonists in the first person. Eoin originally heard it in a different form sung by his mother. The guitar arrangement tips a Glengarry hat to the fine musician Tomás Lynch, who himself learned the song from Liam Weldon.

Tom Dey / Cutting Ferns / Considering a move / Jack Daniel’s Reel
(J.S. Skinner / trad. / J. Holland / J.M. Rankin arr. skyhook)
A strathspey-reel set inspired by the fiddle players of Cape Breton. We got these tunes from Jerry Holland’s second tunebook, published by Paul Cranford.