The Gloucester Hornpipe and Clog Society Waterbound Album

Musicians

John Berger: Fiddle, guitar, banjo and vocals
Tim Murphy: Fiddle, guitar, mandolin and vocals
David (Doc) Rosen: Bodhran, pogo cello, and spoons
Patty Shinehouse: Flute
Ralph Tufo: Accordion and concertina
Susan Zimelis, Hammer Dulcimer and vocals

Side A

1. Sailing by Ash Breeze © Tim Murphy 1987/Steamboat Quickstep
2. Sandy River Belle/Cajun Fais Do-Do
3. Beware Young Ladies
4. Cowboy Waltz
5. New York Girls
6. Young Terence McDonough
7. Les Noto Oro

 

Side B

1. M & S Polka
2. Swipesy Cakewalk
3. Sullivan's Son/The Odd Maggot © Owen Hartford 1987)
4. The Downfall of Paris/Loftus Jones
5. Waterbound
6. Desert Wind © Ralph Tufo 1987

 

Recorded at Audio Matrix Recording Studio in Cambridge, MA
Engineer - Dennis Pearne
Pogo cello carved by sculptor, Rita M. Dunipace
Photograph of pogo cello, Zeltsar Studios, Wimthrop, MA
© Alcazar Productions, Inc. Waterbury, Vermont

po-go-gel-lo (po' go)(chel' o) n. a percussion instrument consisting of a stick with a strong metal spring at the bottom, tuned several octaves below the viola. Sometimes made from New England fir, Danish cookie tins, and cat food can lids. Executed by drawing a threaded wooden rod across braided bailing wire. Originally invented in Far Rockaway, N.Y. in the late 1950's.

 

 

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