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The McGarrigle Hour

The McGarrigle Houris the eighth studio album byKate & Anna McGarrigle,released on October 13, 1998.

The McGarrigle Hour
Studio albumby
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
ReleasedOctober 13, 1998
Recorded1998
GenreFolk
Length68:54
LabelHannibal RecordsHNCD 1417
ProducerJoe Boyd
Kate & Anna McGarriglechronology
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(1996) 		The McGarrigle Hour
(1998) 		La vache qui pleure
(2003)
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The album was recorded at a family gathering, including Kate's former husbandLoudon Wainwright III,their son and daughterRufus WainwrightandMartha Wainwright,Anna's husbandDane Lanken,their son and daughter Sylvan Lanken and Lily Lanken, and Kate and Anna's sisterJane McGarrigle.

Several of the McGarrigle sisters' friends and collaborators, includingEmmylou Harris,Linda Ronstadt,Chaim Tannenbaum,Joel ZifkinandPhilippe Tatartcheff,also appear on the album.

The combo perform a mix of traditional folk tunes, pop standards and original material by the participants.

Two of the songs, "Gentle Annie" and "Skip Rope Song", were recorded separately withLinda RonstadtandEmmylou Harrisin Tucson, Arizona. The sisters had been invited down to Arizona in order to participate on Harris and Ronstadt's 1999 album 'Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions'.Kate & Anna accepted the offer to feature on the album, but asked Harris and Ronstadt feature on their next album in exchange. Harris later also recorded several songs for the album during the normal recording sessions in Montreal.

A DVD of a live show featured most of The McGarrigle Hour was released a year after the album. Some of the songs were accompanied by video interviews of Kate & Anna McGarrigle discussing the songs. The DVD also contained two 'Music Videos' of the songs recorded in Tucson - neither Harris nor Ronstadt was present at the live show - and a handful of songs from a 1980 concert at Teatro Expo in Montreal.[1]

The album won theJuno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year - Groupat theJuno Awards of 1999.

Track listing

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  1. "School Days" (Loudon Wainwright III) – 2:52
  2. "Skip Rope Song" (Jesse Winchester) – 2:34
  3. "Gentle Annie"(Stephen Foster) – 2:59
  4. "Alice Blue Gown"(Joseph McCarthy,Harry Tierney) – 2:39
  5. "Porte en arrière" (D. L. Menard) – 3:05
  6. "What'll I Do?" (Irving Berlin) – 3:37
  7. "Dig My Grave"(Traditional) – 2:38
  8. "Cool River" (Anna McGarrigle, Audrey Bean) – 3:32
  9. "Heartburn" (Rufus Wainwright) – 2:28
  10. "NaCl (Sodium Chloride)" (Kate McGarrigle) – 2:30
  11. "Bon Voyage" (Jacques Laure, Danny Small) – 3:25
  12. "Allez-vous en" (Cole Porter) – 3:43
  13. "Green, Green Rocky Road" (Traditional) – 3:54
  14. "Young Love"(Ric Cartey,Carole Joyner) – 3:23
  15. "Year of the Dragon" (Martha Wainwright) – 5:20
  16. "Forever and the Same" (Anna McGarrigle,Philippe Tatartcheff) – 3:29
  17. "Talk to Me of Mendocino" (Kate McGarrigle) – 2:58
  18. "Baltimore Fire" (Traditional) – 3:15
  19. "Johnny's Gone to Hilo" (Traditional) – 3:09
  20. "Time On My Hands" (Chaim Tannenbaum) – 4:15
  21. "Goodnight Sweetheart"(Jimmy Campbell,Reginald Connelly,Ray Noble) – 2:09

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^"Kate & Anna McGarrigle - The McGarrigle Hour".Discogs.Retrieved2020-07-29.
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