BBC Transatlantic Sessions (Series 1) DVD

DVD

PAL only (UK/Eur/Aus)

Region: 0 (worldwide)

(November 2008 release of 1994 recording) 56 tracks (3h 24mins)

The complete Series One - The Original Transatlantic Sessions. Seven programmes featuring 34 artists, including Aly Bain, John Martyn, Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, Guy Clark, Danny Thompson and Iris DeMent.

A long time coming on DVD, but greatly welcomed by folk, country and roots music enthusiasts on both sides of the Atlantic. An acclaimed ground-breaking series that, in a very simple fashion, brought together a host of great artists from Europe and America, and introduced them to each other's music.

As broadcast on BBC television.

"With our series of Transatlantic Sessions for BBC and RTE, Aly Bain, director Mike Alexander and I can fairly claim to have done our bit in rescuing Scottish and Irish traditional music and American Country from their respective Aran sweater and rhinestone glitter caricatures. It was the original Transatlantic Sessions that set the benchmark and we're delighted, almost fourteen years after that glorious two weeks at the Montgreenan Mansion House in Ayrshire, to be answering at last the (literally) thousands of calls there have been for CD releases... Thanks are due to the BBC as copyright holder, and the singers and instrumentalists who created a legend and had a ball en route."
(Douglas Eadie)

"One of the best musical experiences of my life..."
(Emmylou Harris)

PROGRAMME ONE

Wheels Of Love - Emmylou Harris with Iris Dement & Mary Black
MacIlmoyle - Jay Ungar & Aly Bain with Russ Barenberg, Molly Mason & Jim Sutherland
Ready For The Storm - Kathy Mattea with Dougie MacLean
Spencer The Rover - John Martyn with Danny Thompson
Big Bug Shuffle - Russ Barenberg
Black Diamond Strings - Guy Clark with Emmylou Harris
Guitar Talk - Michelle Wright with Kathy Mattea
Ashokan Farewell - Jay Ungar with Aly Bain

PROGRAMME TWO

May You Never - John Martyn with Kathy Mattea
Big Scioty - Aly Bain, Jay Ungar, Molly Mason, Russ Barenberg & Jerry Douglas
Ta Mo Chleamhnas Deanta - Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh with Donal Lunny
Grey Eagle - Mark O'Connor
Talk To Me Of Mendocino - Kate & Anna McGarrigle with Karen Matheson
Mexican Monterey - Savourna Stevenson with Aly Bain & Danny Thompson
By The Time It Gets Dark - Mary Black with Emmylou Harris & Declan Sinnott
Auld Lang Syne - Rod Paterson with Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh & Martyn Bennett

PROGRAMME THREE

The Loving Time - Mary Black with Declan Sinnott, Davy Spillane
Goodbye Liza Jane - Aly Bain & Jay Ungar with Russ Barenberg, Jerry Douglas & Molly Mason
Iain Ghlinn Cuaich - Karen Matheson with Donald Shaw
Turning Away - Dougie MacLean with Kathy Mattea
Boulavogue / Mrs McLeod - Davy Spillane & Aly Bain with Russ Barenberg
Let The Mystery Be - Iris DeMent
Wild Mountain Thyme - Dick Gaughan with Emmylou Harris, Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Rufus Wainwright
Far From Home / Big John McNeil - The House Band with Mark O'Connor, Martyn Bennett, Charlie McKerron,
Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh & Cathal McConnell

PROGRAMME FOUR

Going Back To Harlan - Kate & Anna McGarrigle with Emmylou Harris
Daire's Dream - Davy Spillane with Jerry Douglas & Russ Barenberg
Canan Nan Gaidheal - Karen Matheson with Donald Shaw
Jim's Jig / Little Cascades / Fox In The Town - Simon Thoumire & Jim Sutherland
Farewell, Farewell - Mary Black with Declan Sinnott
Cat In The Bag - Mark O'Connor with Russ Barenberg, Donal Lunny & Danny Thompson
Our Town - Iris DeMent with Emmylou Harris
Ronfleuse Gobeil - Aly Bain & Jay Ungar with Molly Mason, Russ Barenberg & Jim Sutherland

PROGRAMME FIVE

I Will - Kathy Mattea with Dougie MacLean
Will The Circle Be Unbroken - Michelle Wright, Iris DeMent & Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh
You Low Down Dirty Dog - Jay Ungar with Aly Bain, Russ Barenberg, Jerry Douglas & Molly Mason
Gentle Annie - Kate & Anna McGarrigle with Rod Paterson
Jesse Polka - Mark O'Connor with Phil Cunningham, Russ Barenberg, Donal Lunny & Danny Thompson
Green Rolling Hills - Emmylou Harris with Mary Black
The Dark Woman Of The Glen - Cathal McConnell with Aly Bain, Phil Cunningham & Russ Barenberg
Big Muff - John Martyn with Danny Thompson

PROGRAMME SIX

Hard Times - Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright, Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, Karen Matheson & Rod Paterson
MacCrimmon's Lament - Martyn Bennett
Dublin Blues - Guy Clark with Karen Matheson
Sweet Is The Melody - Iris DeMent
A Maiden's Prayer - Aly Bain & Jay Ungar with Molly Mason, Russ Barenberg, Jerry Douglas & Jim Sutherland
Don't Want To Know - John Martyn with Danny Thompson
For No One - Emmylou Harris with Davy Spillane
Scotland - The House Band with Mark O'Connor, Martyn Bennett, Charlie McKerron, Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh & Cathal McConnell

PROGRAMME SEVEN

Old Fashioned Waltz - Emmylou Harris with Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Clyde To Sandyhook - Savourna Stevenson with Aly Bain
Dark As A Dungeon - Guy Clark with Rod Paterson
The Lover's Waltz - Molly Mason
Both Sides The Tweed - Dick Gaughan with Emmylou Harris
The Reason Why I'm Gone - Michelle Wright with Karen Matheson
Uncle Sam / Rain On Olivia Town - Jerry Douglas
This Love Will Carry - Dougie MacLean with Kathy Mattea