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  New York, USA - The Chieftains’ latest album, Further Down The Old lank
Road (Victor/BMG), continues the groundbreaking
collaboration between The Chieftains and some of country and bluegrass music’s
most original and influential artists. It celebrates the Irish roots of
American country and folk idioms.
The album features Nickel Creek, Rosanne Cash, EmmyLou
Harris, Ricky Scaggs, John Hiatt, John Prine, Don Williams, Jerry Douglas, Patty
Loveless and many more.
Further Down the Old Plank Road continues the
historic musical and cultural collaboration with sixteen new tracks from an
extraordinary array of artists, all backed by the Chieftains and produced by the
group’s founder Paddy Moloney, along with Jeff White and Steve Buckingham. The
album also contains some of the final performances from multi-instrumentalist
Derek Bell, a long-standing Chieftains member who passed away late last year.
Selections on Further Down The Old Plank Road
include vocal performances by Carlene Carter on “Bandit Of Love/The Cheating
Waltz,” Rosanne Cash on “The Lily Of The West,” Joe Ely on “The Moonshiner/I’m A
Rambler,” Emmylou Harris on “Lambs In The Greenfield,” John Hiatt on “Jordan Is
A Hard Road To Travel,” Patty Loveless on “Three Little Babes,” Allison Moorer
on “Hick’s Farewell,” Nickel Creek and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on,
respectively, “The Raggle Taggle Gypsy” and “The Squid Jiggin’ Ground,” Tim
O’Brien on “Shady Grove,” John Prine on “The Girl I Left Behind,” Ricky Skaggs
on “Talk About Suffering/Man of the House’” and Don Williams on “Wild Mountain
Thyme.”
Further Down The Old Plank Road also highlights
instrumental performances by guitar great Jerry Douglas on a “Rosc Catha Na
Mumbain/Arkansas Traveller/The Wild Irishman,” the legendary Doc Watson on “The
Fisherman’s Hornpipe/The Devil’s Dream” as well as Chet Atkins, Béla Fleck and
others on “Chief O’Neill’s Hornpipe.”
The previous collaboration with American musicians, Down
The Old Plank Road, brought the Chieftains to Nashville, Tennessee, for
recording sessions that featured guest appearances by Vince Gill, Alison Krauss,
Béla Fleck and a host of others. Interest in the project among Nashville artists
was so intense that recordings extended far beyond the originally planned
schedule and would eventually encompass an encyclopedic array of top performers
in country, folk and American roots realms.
In conjunction with the release of Further Down The Old
Plank Road, PBS Television will broadcast Down The Old Plank Road, a
concert special filmed at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium and featuring
many of the artists heard on the album. Check local listing for time and date.
With a career that spans forty-one years and forty-one
albums, The Chieftains (Paddy Moloney, Kevin Conneff, Seán Keane and Matt Molloy)
have become Ireland’s premier musical ambassadors and also the most influential
and enduring force in establishing the global appeal of Celtic music.
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