Old Lead
Old Lead is an album by Minneapolis Celtic rock band Boiled in Lead. It collects the band's first two studio albums, 1985's BOiLeD iN lEaD and 1987's Hotheads, along with two tracks recorded during the Hotheads sessions.
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| Released | 1991 | |||
| Genre | Celtic rock/Celtic punk, folk punk, gypsy punk | |||
| Label | Omnium Records | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
| MusicHound Folk | [3] |
| Green Man Review | (positive)[4] |
Critical reception
Chuck Lipsig of Green Man Review praised the previously unreleased song “Lovely Joan” as "one of the most intensely sensual, almost erotic, renditions I’ve heard of any traditional tune."[4] AllMusic's Chip Renner noted that Old Lead shows a progression from the raw sound of Boiled in Lead's first album to the more polished sound of its second.[1] Tim Walters of the guide MusicHound Folk stated that while the material on Old Lead is "less technically adept than their later releases," the band's "energy and inventiveness" are apparent.[3]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Man Who Was Boiled In Lead" | 4:12 |
| 2. | "Banish Misfortune / The Road to Lisdoonvarna / O'Keefe's Slide" | 3:58 |
| 3. | "Byker Hill" | 3:07 |
| 4. | "Jamie Across The Water" | 2:03 |
| 5. | "Arpad's Guz" | 1:39 |
| 6. | "Over Under Sideways Down" | 2:38 |
| 7. | "Walls Of Liscarroll / The Connachtman's Rambles" | 2:19 |
| 8. | "Fisher's Hornpipe" | 3:08 |
| 9. | "Tom And Jerry / Nine Points Of Roguery" | 3:16 |
| 10. | "Twa Corbies" | 3:27 |
| 11. | "As I Roved Out" | 4:09 |
| 12. | "The Galtee Set" | 2:35 |
| 13. | "House-Husband's Lament (Rockin' The Cradle)" | 4:14 |
| 14. | "French Tunes" | 2:44 |
| 15. | "Castle Kelly" | 4:39 |
| 16. | "Shamrock Shore" | 3:11 |
| 17. | "The Gypsy Rover" | 3:13 |
| 18. | "Bank and Star" | 1:45 |
| 19. | "Texas" | 2:41 |
| 20. | "Preacher on a Pony" | 3:12 |
| 21. | "Go! Move! Shift! (The Moving-on Song)" | 3:34 |
| 22. | "Jenny Pluck Pears" | 2:39 |
| 23. | "New Polkas" | 2:32 |
| 24. | "Lovely Joan" | 2:30 |
References
- Renner, Chip. "Boiled in Lead: Old Lead" at AllMusic. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
- Larkin, Colin, ed. (1995). "Boiled in Lead". The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5. Middlesex, England: Guinness Publishing. pp. 727–728.
- Walters, Neal; Mansfield, Brian; Walters, Tim (1998). MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. p. 75. ISBN 1-57859-037-X.
- Lipsig, Chuck (17 January 2011). "Boiled in Lead: The Not Quite Complete Recordings". Green Man Review. Archived from the original on 21 January 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2015.