5 MILE CHASE: Your Town

5 Mile Chase

Your Town

© 2005 Five Mile Chase

CD IN STOCK. ORDER NOW. Will ship immediately.

Irish traditional music with deep roots and branches all over the place. From straight ahead driving jig medleys to bossa nova hornpipes, from reels that swing to Tom Waits songs with an accordion, influences from Kentucky to Bulgaria.

tracks

1 The Road to Cashel / Exile of Erin / The Golden Stud
2 Dance of the Honeybees / Harp and Shamrock / The Stack of Barley
3 Your Town
4 Bracken's / Paddy Fahy's #9 / The Blarney Pilgrim
5 McDonagh's / Big Red
6 Martin Wynne's #3 / Skyway / Lad O' Beirne's
7 Blame the Dog / Nine to Eleven
8 The Donegal / The Reel with the Burl / Molloy's Favorite
9 Time
10 To Limerick We Will Go / Dusty Miller / Gort na Mona
11 The Moving Bog / The Stoney Steps / Victory Reel
12 Franklin
13 The Widow's Daughter / Humours of Scarriff / The Whistler of Ros
14 The Western / An Paistin Fionn
15 The Bemidji Song
16 Kitty O' Shea's / The Forgotten Fling

notes

Django Amerson and Brian Miller met at Macalester College in 1998 and started performing as 5 Mile Chase in 2001. They have performed at festivals and clubs from Seattle to Boston and have made a name for themselves especially in the Midwest with their vibrant interpretations of traditional music.

5 Mile Chase approaches Irish traditional music with sensitivity and creativity, sometimes carefully walking the line between authenticity with innovation and sometimes stepping firmly to either side. Their sophomore release, "Your Town", ranges from straight ahead driving reel medleys to hornpipes that deviate into quirky bossa novas and songs from such non-Irish sources as Tom Waits and The Replacements. A number of the traditional tunes on the album take on a distinct swing feel that is highlighted on some tracks by percussionist Owen Weaver on snare and hi hat. Two tunes composed by Amerson, "Blame the Dog" and "Nine to Eleven", incorporate the distinctive modes and uneven rhythms of eastern European music while the title track "Your Town" (composed by Miller) sounds akin to the American old-time music based songwriting of Gillian Welch. The Irish tradition meets northern Minnesota in Miller's humorous a cappella ode to his hometown of Bemidji.

Recorded by Pete Swalley at the Mengelkoch House Studio in Minneapolis, "Your Town" also features Miller's Irish flute, whistle and piano accordion playing with Amerson trading his fiddle for a bouzouki on the song Franklin.

reviews

Please log in to review this album.

  • Talented playing. Teriffic sets.
    author: David Elosser

    It's tough not to give this cd 5 stars, but I reserve that rating to a handfull of albumns. The duo is very talanted. The sets are teriffic. A wide variety of celtic tunes are played, many of them familiar to celtophiles. The arrangements are very well done, with every line coming through clean and clear. There is nothing fancy here, the two just simply sit down and start playing. They have a lot of fun playing together, and you will have just as much fun listening to them.

email

Please log in to email this artist.