New musics!

[annathepiper]

Since I just got another paycheck I decided to indulge in a couple more albums off of iTunes. First and foremost I wanted to download The Granite Years, which is a compilation album by the Oysterband. Those of you who are versed on your Great Big Sea trivia will know that the Oysterband is their original source for "When I'm Up", a GBS staple. I was quite interested to check them out, and now that I've listened to the Oysterband version of the song, I can totally hear why the B'ys wanted to grab it. GBS' arrangement is IMO more interesting, and of course I prefer Alan's singing, but the Oysterband's version is solid, too. I'm looking forward to giving the rest of the album a good listen.

Meanwhile, I'm coming late to the Gaelic Storm train, but at least I'm actually on board now that I've bought a copy of the second GS album, Tree. sksouth had loaned me this, and I liked it quite a bit better than the first GS album, so I decided I'd better give it a shot.

Also finally picked up Sounds of the Verse by the Persephone Pickers. Which, as you might guess, is Firefly-themed music. ;) I was looking for this at Conflikt and didn't find it, so finally popped it off the top of the stack to buy.

And to swing back around to the top of the post (like you should always do with a good trad song), GBS' Great Big CD finally went into DRM-free mode on iTunes so I naturally had to update my copy. Yay!