Yearbook [Album - CD]

Release date: 4 June 2021

Winner: 2022 East Coast Music Association’s Roots/Traditional Recording of the Year

22 tracks; 37 tunes; 2 discs; 58 musicians; 5 countries; nearly 90 minutes of music!

Yearbook is the double-album collection of some of the best original tunes composed during the 2018 tune-a-day project. Featuring a whole slew of top-notch musicians, this collection is all about the tunes!

The first disc includes 19 tunes presented in various musical styles, from bluegrass to New Orleans to doo-wop to that old 8-bit style you might have heard on an old Nintendo game. The original writing project was an experiment, so when it came time to record, it made sense to also experiment with the presentation of the music, to take some chance and really have some fun with it!

Because the writing is so deeply rooted in the Cape Breton tradition, the second disc in this set features expanded “traditional” versions of all of the sets on the first, presented with fiddle, piano, guitar, and bagpipes, along with 17 tunes that didn’t find their way into the less traditional arrangements.

Disc 1:

1. Forever Young - 3:30
   Reel for Dad / Reel for Mom and Dad / Reel for Mom

2. Watch the Weather (feat. Andrew Tyne) - 1:37

3. Fuller’s Bridge (feat. Crowdis Bridge) - 3:44
   Fuller’s Bridge / Plink a Plonk a Plinkle

4. Eleanor’s - 3:55
   Strawberries & Cream / Empty-Handed / Eleanor’s

5. Rev. Lloyd A. Murdock - 2:27

6. Twirly (feat. Rankin MacInnis, Omar Tag & Kerdani) - 3:40
   The Little Weirdo

7. Midair - 3:51
   D Deck / 💁‍♀️

8. Old Fashioned - 3:49
   The Old Fashioned / The Beer Gardens

9. Corned Beef and Garbage - 2:59
   Intercontinental Breakfast / Corned Beef and Garbage / Intercontinental Breakfast

10. Winter Sets In - 3:04
    Winter Sets In / No Pain, No Gain

11. Peighinn nan Aoireann (feat. Belkolora) - 4:18

Disc 2:

1. Forever Young - 3:30
   Reel for Dad / Reel for Mom and Dad / Reel for Mom

2. Watch the Weather - 3:34
   The Radiation Burn / Watch the Weather

3. Fuller’s Bridge - 6:08
   Fuller’s Bridge / The Longest Night / Kerfuffleupagus / Plink a Plonk a Plinkle

4. Eleanor’s - 3:12
   Strawberries & Cream / Empty-Handed / Eleanor’s

5. Rev. Lloyd A. Murdock - 4:18

6. Twirly - 4:29
   Twirly / Home Again / The Shortest Night / The Little Weirdo

7. Midair - 6:29
   The End Is Near / The Golden Curls / D Deck / 💁‍♀️/ Midair

8. Old Fashioned - 4:16
   The Old Fashioned / The Beer Gardens / Pants Off in the Kitchen / Trip to Miramichi

9. Corned Beef and Garbage - 7:42
   The Stillness of Morning / Brunswick Street / Intercontinental Breakfast / Corned Beef and Garbage / The Last Market / The Plan

10. Winter Sets In - 4:38
    From Scratch / Bentinck Street / Winter Sets In / No Pain, No Gain

11. Peighinn nan Aoireann - 4:08

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Musicians:

• Belkolora (Laurie Gorman, Richard MacAulay, Peter MacDonald, Barb Stetter, Jenny Tingley)

• Eric Burke

• Brent Chaisson

• Alexey Chepyzhenko

• Crowdis Bridge (Andrew Fedora, Ben Furey, Colin Grant, Kyle Legere, Jason Rudderham)

• Chrissy Crowley

• Emily Dingwall

• Colin Grant

• Mostafa el Kerdani

• Fred Lavery

• Jason MacDonald

• Rankin MacInnis

• Zach MacLean

• Boyd MacNeil

• Jason Murdock

• Musiversal Prague Orchestra

• Brad Reid

• Dara Smith-MacDonald

• Omar Tag

• Brian Talbot

• Andrew Tyne

• Adam Young

Recorded by Mike “Sheppy” Shepherd at Lakewind Sound Studios in Point Aconi, Nova Scotia

This project is supported by funding from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency through the Cape Breton Music Industry Cooperative.