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- Date Released: January 1, 1993
- Genre: International
- Style: Rock, Celtic/British Isles
- Label: Cooking Vinyl / IODA
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Buoyed by big, rich production that never slides into slickness, Oysterband (formerly the Oyster Band) sounds like they've been given a blood transfusion on this album. Opening with the joyful one-two punch of "When I'm Up I Can't Get Down" (later a hit for the Canadian folk-rock group Great Big Sea) and "The Road to Santiago" and featuring such anthemic delights as "Gone West" (with its big-as-a-house fiddle sound) and "Cry, Cry" (with its didgeridoo pedal point and rockish chorus), Holy Bandits proceeds from strength to strength with hardly a misstep. True, "I Look for You" is bewilderingly bereft of melodic interest, but by the time the gleeful barroom polka of "Here's to You" has given way to the melancholy sweetness of "Moving On" and then to an even more melancholy and even sweeter rendition of the traditional "Rambling Irishman," you'll have forgotten that there was ever a tuneless moment on this wonderful album. British folk-rock simply doesn't get any better than this.
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When I'm Up I Can't Get Down |
3:30 |
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| 02. | |
The Road To Santiago |
3:29 |
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| 03. | |
I Look For You |
4:04 |
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| 04. | |
Gone West |
4:04 |
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| 05. | |
We Shall Come Home |
4:18 |
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| 06. | |
Cry, Cry |
3:34 |
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| 07. | |
Here's To You |
3:15 |
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| 08. | |
Moving On |
3:45 |
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| 09. | |
Rambling Irishman |
5:03 |
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| 10. | |
A Fire Is Burning |
3:18 |
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| 11. | |
Blood Wedding |
4:04 |
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11 Total Tracks, 42:24 Total Length
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Credits
- Oysterband - Arranger // Oysterband - Arranger // Oysterband - Main Performer // Oysterband - Main Performer // Oysterband - Performer // Oysterband - Performer // John Jones - Vocals // John Jones - Melodion // Russell Lax - Drums // Russell Lax - Sound Effects // Russell Lax - Vocals // Russell Lax - Noise // Russell Lax - Bodhran // Tim Porter - Engineer // Alan Prosser - Banjo // Alan Prosser - Guitar // Alan Prosser - Mandolin // Alan Prosser - Viola // Alan Prosser - Vocals // Al Scott - Producer // Allan Scott - Producer // Jackie Sheridan - Vocals // Jackie Sheridan - Voices // Ian Telfer - Violin // Ian Telfer - Viola // Sarah Allen - Whistle (Human) // Sarah Allen - Whistle (Instrument) // Ben Stone - Illustrations // Chopper - Bass // Chopper - Cello // Chopper - Vocals // Chopper - Tiple // Kieran Murphy - Photography
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