The Cadre «+ 6 April 1999

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT 17

A Bunch Of Reviews...

Arrogant Worms: Live Bait — Ever listen to the Arrogant Worms? If not, go buy a copy (I know it’s a bit blunt) of “Live Bait”. Known as the Canadian clown princes of comedy, this is their first live album, and it features 12 tracks, including 6 that were never released before on their previous albums. With Worms’ classics such as “The Last Sas- katchewan Pirate”, “Carfull Of Pain”, and “Carrot Juice Is Murder” — as well as such great new tunes as “Mounted Animal Nature Trail” and “Canada’s Really Big”, this album is a sure thing. If you have a sense of humour you’re bound to like the Worms. www.cyberus.ca/~jefimay/ worms/worms.htm

Los Gusanos (Subversion Records) — This is the first release from CJ Ward’s band (you may know him as CJ Ramone). Featuring their unique brand of “motorcycle rock”, this is a good album. All 12 tracks feature CJ’s vocals, so if you liked his songs with the Ramones you're bound to like this album. Top tracks include “Bad Day”, “Blue Sky”, “On My Way” and “Carve Your Name”. www.losgusanos.com/

Natalie MacMaster: My Roots Are Showing (Warner) — Natalie is well known to be a fiddling phenomenon, and this is her latest release. Ending the album is a live cut, “A Glencoe Dance Set”, with the rest being recorded in the studio. Another in a long line of great releases from her, it won her a Juno award recently for best instrumental album. www.nataliemacmaster.com/welcome.html

Dervish: Live In Palma (Kells Music) — Dervish is an Irish traditional group, much in the same spirit of the Chieftains. This particular re- lease is a double cd, featuring 22 tracks, every one of them a keeper. Some of the songs on this album feature vocals (most of which are in Gaelic), although the majority are instrumentals.

Jack Williams: Across The Winterline (Wind River) — This is a re- lease from the newly created sublabel of Folk Era. Featured on this album is fine songwriting and relaxing folk music that crosses the line into country, rock, jazz and the blues. www. folkera.com/windriver

Sheila Noonan: Radio Sweethearts (Kells) — This album features a beautiful voice and a number of songs that are familiar to the people of the East Coast. Included are two JP Cormier (of Cape Breton) ¥ “The Island” and “Another Morning”, as well as “The Ballad of St. Anne’s Reel” —a Prince Edward Island song. A couple of other great tracks include “Music Of Healing” by Tommy Sands and “Emigrant Eyes”, a song that fans of John Allan Cameron are bound to know (it can be found on his “Glencoe Station” album also).

Seven Nations: Big Dog — This is a release from one of the premier Celtic rock bands from the United States. There are a few instrumentals

here, emphasizing the highland bagpipes, as well as some fine vocal tracks, including “Crooked Jack”. www.sevennations.com

Ce

with David MacDonald

Woman in the Dunes

The recently warm temperatures noe inspire thoughts of summer days walking on sandy Prince Island beaches, sand clinging to your heels. Sure, sometimes those dunes may be hard to climb over, but you don’t mind. You'd frolic in the al