Unleashed (Wolfstone album)

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Unleashed
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Studio album by Wolfstone
Released 1991
Recorded Palladium Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland
Genre Celtic rock
Length46:48
Label Iona Records
Producer Phil Cunningham
Wolfstone chronology
Wolfstone II
(1990)Wolfstone II1990
Unleashed
(1991)
The Chase
(1992) The Chase1992
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Unleashed is the official debut album of Scottish Celtic rock band Wolfstone. It was released in 1991.

Scottish people ethnic inhabitants of Scotland

The Scottish people or Scots, are a nation and Celtic ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically, they emerged from an amalgamation of two Celtic-speaking peoples, the Picts and Gaels, who founded the Kingdom of Scotland in the 9th century. Later, the neighbouring Celtic-speaking Cumbrians, as well as Germanic-speaking Anglo-Saxons and Norse, were incorporated into the Scottish nation.

Celtic rock is a genre of folk rock, as well as a form of Celtic fusion which incorporates Celtic music, instrumentation and themes into a rock music context. It has been extremely prolific since the early 1970s and can be seen as a key foundation of the development of highly successful mainstream Celtic bands and popular musical performers, as well as creating important derivatives through further fusions. It has played a major role in the maintenance and definition of regional and national identities and in fostering a pan-Celtic culture. It has also helped to communicate those cultures to external audiences.

Wolfstone Scottish band

Wolfstone are a Scottish musical group founded in 1989, who play Celtic rock. Their repertoire consists of both original songs and traditional folk pieces. To date, they have released seven studio albums, the latest, Terra Firma, in 2007. The band record on their own label, Once Bitten Records. The group are named after the "Wolfstone", a Pictish stone originally sited at Ardross, Easter Ross, close to where the band initially recorded.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Cleveland Park" - 4:16
    • Cleveland Park
    • The Banks of the Allan
    • Kenny Gillies of Portnalong, Skye
  2. "Song for Yesterday" - 5:25
  3. "The Silver Spear" - 3:54
    • Paddy Fehey's
    • The Silver Spear
  4. "Sleepy Toon" - 3:52
  5. "Hector the Hero" - 5:08
  6. "The Howl" - 7:31
    • The Louis Reel
    • Morrison's Jig
    • The Shoe Polisher's Jig
  7. "Here Is Where the Heart Is" - 5:14
    • Lily the Pict
    • Here Is Where the Heart Is
  8. "Hard Heart" - 5:44
  9. "Erin" - 5:45
    • The Coast of Austria
    • Toss the Feathers
    • Farewell to Erin
    • Captain Lachlan MacPhail of Tiree

Preview

A preview containing both re-recordings of earlier tracks and samples from the album was issued before its release in 1991, entitled Unleashed: The Preview.

Track listing

  1. "Erin"
  2. "Song for Yesterday"
  3. "Ready for the Storm"
  4. "A Stoir Moi Chroi"

Personnel

Duncan Chisholm is a Scottish fiddle player and composer. He has released six solo albums as a solo artist. His studio album, Affric, released in 2012, was longlisted for the Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award. In 2018, he released a sixth studio album, titled Sandwood. He tours with the Scottish Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis' band. He is also a founder member of the folk rock group Wolfstone. He played fiddle for Runrig.

Ivan Drever is a Scottish folk singer, songwriter and guitarist. He often tours with fiddler Duncan Chisholm who founded the Celtic rock band Wolfstone which Drever joined in 1990 but left in later years. Drever has mixed traditional folk with some rock and roll sounds.

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