Welcome to this retrospective broadcast of my favourite listens of 2014. Along the way we'll identify the gold star releases that in my view were outstanding.
This year there was a great crop of new releases and we have 9 gold star releases (marked as GOLD* below) and 4 runners up (marked as RU below).
You can review our gold star releases from previous years at our show website: www.musicfromtheglen.ca.
| Brenhines y brecwast / Tywysog y brecwast Allan yn y Fan - Cool, Calm and Collected - Steam pie |
| Let union be Bellowhead - Revival - Island [RU] |
| Boxy set Beoga - Live at 10 - Compass [GOLD*] |
| The Campbells of Greepe The Campbells of Greepe - No. 2 Greepe - Self |
| Queen Caraboo Martin & Eliza Carthy - The moral of the elephant - Topic |
| Green grow the laurels Josienne Clark / Ben Walker - Fire and fortune - Navigator |
| Slipping into four Maxim Cormier - 2 - Self 
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| Hunting the hare / Give us a drink of water / Ellen O'Grady / Moll Rua Craobh Rua - I'd understand you if I knew what you meant - Self [GOLD*] |
| The well dressing song Finest Kind - From shore to shore - Fallen Angle [RU]
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| Howard Booster's style Alasdair Fraser / Natalie Haas - Abundance - Culburnie [RU] |
| Last rider Seth Lakeman - Word of mouth - Honour Oak [RU] |
| The colours of Cape Breton Troy MacGillivray - Tune poets - Self [GOLD*]
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| Lowrey's / The handsome wave / The fly half / Jig for James Gavin Marwick - The long road and the far horizons - Self [GOLD*] |
| Driving song Nua - Bold - Self [GOLD*]
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| Loftus Jones Gavin Pennycook - Octave fiddle baritone violin - Self [GOLD*] |
| William MacGillivray Poor Angus - Gathering - Borealis [GOLD*]
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| Cornish girl Mishaped Pearls - Thamesis - Self |
| The basket's story Shelley Posen - Roseberry Road - Well done [GOLD*]
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| Red rose medley Jason Wilson / Dave Swarbrick - Lion rampant - Shirty [GOLD*]
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| Rambleaway Nick Wyke / Becki Driscoll - A handful of sky - Wild goose |
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Welcome everyone, hope you've been enjoying these records as much as I have this year. Happy new year, and best to all for 2015!
12:48 PM, January 4th, 2015