Pied Piper

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:49:02
Personnel includes: Donovan (vocals, arranger, guitar); Anie Whelan (vocals); Sudhananda (various instruments); Robbie Overson (electric guitar); Mick Daly (banjo); Dana Rath (mandolin); Maire Breathnach (fiddle); Jim Rothermel (harmonica, recorder, alto saxophone); Pat Crowley (accordion, piano, keyboards); Paul Seymour (keyboards); Noel Barrett (bass); Danny Byrt (drums); Carrie Brandon, Indiana Seerley Gowland (background vocals). Recorded at Sound Sound, Cork, Ireland; Little Buddha Studios, San Rafael, California. Personnel: Donovan (vocals, guitar); Bernie Steinberg, Carrie Brandon, Rebecca Hale, Michael Bennett , Tina Malia, Aine Whelan (vocals); Robbie Overson (electric guitar); Mick Daly (banjo); Dana Rath (mandolin); Maire Breatnach (fiddle, strings); Jim Rothermel (harmonica, recorder, alto saxophone); Pat Crowley (accordion, piano, keyboards); Paul Seymour (keyboards); Danny Byrt (drums). Audio Mixers: Dan Fitzgerald; Donovan; Leib Ostrow; Sudhananda. Recording information: Little Buddah Studios, San Rafael, CA; Little Buddha Studio, San Rafael, CA; Sound Sound, Cork, Ireland. Unknown Contributor Role: Danny Byrt. Arrangers: Donovan; Sudhananda. It is difficult to say why this album designed for children doesn't work any better than it does. Perhaps it's because everything here is so quaint, and quaintness is a distinctly adult notion, a close cousin to willful nostalgia, and neither trait is anything that most kids would even bother exploring. Mixing in older songs like "Mandolin Man and His Secret" and "Little Boy in Corduroy" with a handful of newer pieces (and what must be the 400th version of "Colours"), Donovan actually does here what he has really always done, and that is make a pleasant, at times even interesting, album for adults who want to feel like they're children again. There is certainly nothing wrong with that. Just don't try selling it to the kids, because they undoubtedly wouldn't sit still for it. ~ Steve Leggett
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)