Selcouth means, “when everything is strange and different, yet you find it marvelous anyway.”
My wife found that word. She found a whole bunch of old words with cool meanings. But selcouth is the one that stuck out to me. It just seemed to fit me and my music.
I play Celtic music with a science fiction twist, while wearing a kilt and playing an autoharp. If that's not strange and different yet marvelous, I don't know what is!
But I asked her what should the album cover look like. I no longer remember what she said. But it was something like this. Strange and different yet marvelous.
Miranda Nelson laid out the cover for me. The photo is by Gary Hook from a photo shoot we did in Austin back in May.
We are still putting the final touches on the tracks. But I am happy to announce the track listing.
- Bright Side of Everything (feat. Screeched Inn)
- When She Held Me In Her Arms
- Breathing (feat. Jamie Haeuser)
- Swallowtail Jig/Out on the Ocean (feat. Sam Gillogly)
- Why Do You Torture Me
- Lads in the Shire
- Wherever I May Roam
- Serenity Valley Waltz
- Tough Times (feat. Mikey Mason)
- Mingulay Cat Song
- Loch Lomond
- Genetic Counseling Song
- Kilty Pleasure (feat. The Muckers)
Credits
Thanks to James McDaniel II for Selcouth sticker graphics
Hall of Heroes
Thanks to Carol Baril, Leslie & Rich Maynard, Kris D, J. Rinker, Jason Aller, Josh Brown, Kelley, Saffron, Tim S., Mriedel, Birdie and Charlie, Angela Hughes, Kathleen, Chris Gray, James ODell, W. Randy Hoffman, Erin Nix, Gabrielle E, Donovan and Jessica Grimwood, The Flicks, Jason Denen, Thul Family, Jessica L. Clark, Jim & Jan Czenkusch, Erica Burns, Julie Hall, Gabriel L. Eggers, James Lawlor, Jacqueline Skelton, Muzikanka, Andi Anderson, River Godbee, Esther Ellen Harrington, Bori Vekony, Karl, Paul Blotkamp, Thor & Cece Thomas, Josh Ohmer, Arwyn Hamlin, Ethan Sommerfeld, Sarah G., Kurt Goodyear, Wendy Erisman, Mark P, Naomi Soto, Mike Sausaman, Rob Wilson, Amanda Dailey-Weaver, Scott Wooldridge, Jeffrey Meyer, Nicky Witte, Larry Lang, Mike and Jenn Simpson, Jocelyn Tuohy, Craig Backus, Benjamin Moore & Tiffany Marcheterre, Tammy L. Garland, Deborah Jackson, Brian S, Michelle A Turner, Ben Malloy, Tommy Anderson, The Stubby Shillelaghs, Polerno, Rob C Smith, Phillip Bailey, Eric Brooks, Dennis D, Matt Urick, Chuck Parker, Sandi Lang, Thomas Browne, Erick, Francis Bauroth, Sara Melton, John, Robert Mead, Melanie Estes, The Garland Family, MOOSE, Anne Hunter, Matt Black, Kathleen Sloan, Mike McDaniel, Jason Youngberg, Brian & Courtney Petty, Antonio Hector, Susan Thomas, Dave Kingsley
