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Scott Nygaard and Crow Molly

Scott Nygaard and Crow Molly

Album · 2009 · Fret Soup Records

Scott Nygaard and Crow Molly (2009) is the debut album of a trio: guitarist Scott Nygaard, mandolinist Joe K. Walsh and fiddler Lauren Rioux, who plays five-string violin and viola. Nygaard sings and plays guitar and produced the record, with bassist Sam Bevan and vocalist Aoife O’Donovan as guests. It was released on Fret Soup Records.

The trio was formed to showcase Nygaard’s own material, which he describes as a blend of bluegrass and jazz with Celtic and Scandinavian folk influences. The twelve tracks include “Maurice McCusker,” “Waltz from Munkedal,” “Haapavesi Nights,” “Waterbound” and a pairing of “Wildwood Flower” with “Happy Holler,” along with “Man of Constant Sorrow.” Walsh, from Minnesota, was the first mandolin student, and the first graduate, at Berklee College of Music, and has played with the Gibson Brothers; Rioux has played with Darol Anger’s Republic of Strings and is active in Maine’s music education network.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Maurice McCusker 3:44
  2. 2 Waltz from Munkedal 3:28
  3. 3 The Idlers of Belltown 3:12
  4. 4 An Easier Way to Fly 3:22
  5. 5 Too Hungry 3:38
  6. 6 Great Grimpen Mire/Cumberland Gap 5:19
  7. 7 I’m a Man of Constant Sorrow alt version 2:55
  8. 8 Metaren (The Lazy Fisherman) 3:36
  9. 9 Haapavesi Nights 4:47
  10. 10 Waterbound alt version 2:57
  11. 11 Little Did He Know 4:05
  12. 12 Wildwood Flower/Happy Holler 3:42

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