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Dove Across The Water
Search: Running Dry (Requiem For The Rockets)
by:
Ossian
Release Date August 01, 1991
Ossian (not to be confused with the likewise-defunct Irish group Oisín) were one of the great bands of the Scottish folk revival of the '70s and '80s, drawing on the tradition as Planxty, the Bothy band and Dé Dannan did around the same time in Ireland. Between 1977 and 1986 they made six albums:
Ossian (1977)
St. Kilda Wedding (1978)
Seal Song (1981)
Dove Across the Water (1982)
Borders (1984)
Light on a Distant Shore (1986)
All the band were skilled multi-instrumentalists, and the sheer variety of the arrangements on these albums is astonishing. Their vocal harmony, especially when combined with the wonderful voice of Tony Cuffe (as it is on "Will Ye Go to Flanders?"), is so perfect ...
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