This album includes all the English country dances published in Impropriety Volume 1, the country dances of Brooke Friendly and Chris Sackett. Anita Anderson (piano, voice, bells, zills) and Dave Bartley (guitars, cittern, mandolin, dumbek) from Seattle WA, Jim Oakden (recorders, clarinets, banjo, whistle, guitar, accordion) from Santa Cruz CA, and Shira Kammen (fiddle, viola, vielle, voice) from Berkeley CA, met in the Rogue Valley of Oregon to record this album. The bands varied influences include English, contra, early music, classical, Breton, Scottish, Irish, Cape Breton, Galician, French, Balkan, jazz-fusion, gospel, Scandinavian, and Greek. Kevin Carr, of the Rogue Valley, joins the band on tracks 4, 10, 15 (uilleann pipes) and #7 (lead fiddle). Brooke joins the band on tracks 3 (drum) and 14 (mando-cello and voice)
TRACK LISTING
- Heydaze (tune: Spatter the Dew) - Traditional Irish
- Cottonwood - Dave Bartley 2002
- On Wittman's Golden Floor - Todd Barton 2003
- Home Again (tune: Le Brandevin) - Robert Amyot 1990 and 2005
- The Black Cat (tune: Aislin's Jig) - Ruth Anne Fraley 2004
- Lavender (tune: The Baker's Flower) - Bo Leyden 2003
- Caravan Crossing (tune: Port Luascaigh Gan Ainm) - Traditional Irish
- Rogues' Ramble (tune: Point Adolphus) - Dave Bartley 2000
- Winter Garden (tune: Devil's Punchbowl Revisited) - Bo Leyden 2004
- A Trip to Town-O (tune: The Foxhunters) - Traditional
- At Nancy's House (tune: Elocine) - Bo Leyden 1999
- Paul's Pet Peeve (tune: Dame Durdan) - Traditional/Copper Family arranged by Chris Sackett
- Puck's Deceit (tune: The Kettle Drum) - from the English Dancing Master (Playford) 1651
- Sun Return (tune: Dehors lonc pre) - 13th-century French carol
The Friendly Brooke (tune: The Butterfly) - Traditional Irish
- The MollyAndrew (tune: Saturday Morning Waltz) Dave Wiesler 1997
- Impropriety (tune: Millison's Jegge) - from The English Dancing Master (Playford) 1651
