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Cabbage

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Download links and information about Cabbage by Gaelic Storm. This album was released in 2010 and it belongs to Rock, Punk, World Music, Alternative, Celtic genres. It contains 14 tracks with total duration of 52:14 minutes.

Artist: Gaelic Storm
Release date: 2010
Genre: Rock, Punk, World Music, Alternative, Celtic
Tracks: 14
Duration: 52:14
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Tracks

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No. Title Length
1. Raised On Black and Tans 3:28
2. Space Race 4:07
3. Cyclone McClusky 3:54
4. Blind Monkey 3:10
5. Green Eyes, Red Hair 3:55
6. Just Ran Out of Whiskey 4:18
7. Jimmy's Bucket 3:44
8. Cecilia 3:27
9. The Buzzards of Bourbon Street 3:31
10. Turn This Ship Around 4:04
11. Rum Runners 3:38
12. Northern Lights 3:48
13. Crazy Eyes McGullicuddy 3:59
14. Chucky Timm 3:11

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Gaelic Storm is not your average Celtic music band, although the musicians can sound like one when it suits them. Using traditional tunes, they come up with Irish instrumentals such as "Jimmy's Bucket," "The Buzzards of Bourbon Street," and "Crazy Eyes McGillicudy," employing a fiddle and bagpipes and ethnic instruments to affect the sound of Irish folk music. But on their originals, bandleaders Patrick Murphy (the only native Irishman in the band) and Steve Twigger examine some of the more unusual aspects of being Irish, starting with the lead-off song, "Raised on Black and Tans," in which the narrator declares his bona fides before admitting that he actually wasn't born in Ireland and, in fact, has never been there. Neither have many of the Irish-Americans who listen to Gaelic Storm, a population numbering 36 million, according to a sleeve note. Even to be Irish is a questionable attribute, according to the second song, "Space Race," in which the singer reveals that, as an Irishman he is incapable of doing something as complicated as being an astronaut. Two things the Irish can do, it seems are drink and sail the seas, however, and the characters in later songs do plenty of each. Thus, Gaelic Storm paints a less than heroic portrait of Irishness, even as the bandmembers embrace it as their own identity. Happily, their listeners can swallow this message along with their favorite alcoholic beverage and sing along on the choruses.