Steve McDonald - Highland Farewell

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Music Review: Steve McDonald's Wonderful Album!
Rating: 5 Stars

The best songs on Highland Farewell made me cry, and still do (I have played the CD dozens of times). "The Highland Farewell" is a beautiful, moving song, in which the crofters are thrown out of their beloved country, and made to sail to far-away lands as their "tears, fall upon the salty deck" of the ships as Scotland fades away. The Gaelic parts of the song are beautiful as well. "By Law" is a powerful, angry protest song about the rich and powerful getting away with terrible deeds, under the guise of the law. "To the Ends of the Earth" is a wonderful song that tells the story of a preacher and his followers who left Scotland for Nova Scotia, and then left there for New Zealand. "All My Days," "Child of the Gael," and "My Heart Belongs to Scotland" also are beautiful songs, as is "Seawulf" (about the Viking conquest of Scotland).

The instrumentation on this CD is terrific. McDonald inserts fife, drums, cello, bass, guitar, Bodhran, and violin music to enhance the pieces greatly. The backing vocalists, including Hollie Smith, are wonderful, and you might find yourself singing along with them, since the choruses are splendid generally.

HIghland Farewell is better than McDonald's first CD, Sons of Somerled (which was the Gaelic Album of the Year), and as good as Stone of Destiny (which was nominated for the award). You will love it!

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