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Yearbook by Adam Young

Distilled from a tunewriting project which saw the composition of one new piece of music every day for a year, Yearbook is a unique double album featuring 37 original tunes played by 58 musicians. Features airs, jigs, marches, strathspeys, and reels, all rooted in the traditional style of music found on Cape Breton Island, with arrangements influenced by disco, doowop, New Orleans jazz, bluegrass, electronic, Scots traditional and more!

Tracklist
1.Forever Young3:28
2.Watch the Weather (feat. Andrew Tyne)1:37
3.Fuller's Bridge (feat. Crowdis Bridge)3:44
4.Eleanor's3:55
5.Rev. Lloyd A. Murdock2:28
6.Twirly (feat. Omar Tag, Rankin MacInnis and Kerdani)3:39
7.Midair3:51
8.Old Fashioned3:51
9.Corned Beef and Garbage2:58
10.Winter Sets In3:03
11.Peighinn nan Aoireann (feat. Belkolora)4:21
12.Forever Young (trad version)3:27
13.Watch the Weather (trad version)3:34
14.Fuller's Bridge (trad version)6:05
15.Eleanor's (trad version)3:14
16.Rev. Lloyd A. Murdock (trad version)4:13
17.Twirly (trad version)4:29
18.Midair (trad version)6:31
19.Old Fashioned (trad version)4:17
20.Corned Beef and Garbage (trad version)7:45
21.Winter Sets In (trad version)4:38
22.Peighinn nan Aoireann (trad version)4:12
Credits
released June 4, 2021

All tunes written and arranged by Adam Young except:
"Watch the Weather" arranged by Andrew Tyne; "Fuller's Bridge" arranged by Adam Young & Crowdis Bridge; "Twirly" arranged by Omar Tag; and "Corned Beef and Garbage" horns arranged by Brad Reid

Album design and layout: Adam Young
Yearbook title design and scroll: Fern Donovan (based on an upright Stanley piano, ca. 1920)

All compositions registered with SOCAN

Recorded by Mike Shepherd at Lakewind Sound in Point Aconi, Nova Scotia except:
Crowdis Bridge recorded by Jamie Foulds at Soundpark Studios in Sydney, Nova Scotia; the Musiversal Prague Orchestra recorded at Ceská televise in Prague, Czechia; Brent Chaisson's guitar recorded by Brent Chaisson at Studio Dimanche in Miscouche, Prince Edward Island; Jason Murdock's guitar recorded by Brent Rose at Kelly Walsh High School in Casper, Wyoming; Brad Reid's horns recorded by Scott Ferguson at Studio FMP in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; and at the home studios of Jason MacDonald (guitar - Sydney, Nova Scotia), Zach MacLean (guitars - Halifax, Nova Scotia), Alexey Chepyzhenko (cornet - Kharkiv, Ukraine), Omar Tag (electronic production and guitars - Sydney, Nova Scotia), and Mostafa El Kerdani (drums - Cairo, Egypt - Kerdani is endorsed by VicFirth)

This project is supported by funding from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency through the Cape Breton Music Industry Cooperative
LicenseAll rights reserved.
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For the past two decades, Adam Young has been bringing his particular style of Cape Breton piano accompaniment to audiences around the world. Deeply rooted within the fiddle and bagpipe music tradition, the Cape Breton piano style has evolved over the past century, incorporating subtle elements of jazz and popular music, while still maintaining that unique “Cape Breton” sound.

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