Release Date (Original): 6th November 1975

Release Date (CD Re-Issue): 11th March 2011

Digisleeve Compact Disc

"Knowing it would take us over a year to write The Book of Invasions, we had the perfect opportunity to record an acoustic album of personal favourites, something we’d always hoped to do at some stage. While it would be probably the first time a rock band recorded an “unplugged” album, we thought to give it a unique twist by making it a seasonal record. Everyone in the band had fun suggesting tunes and songs and it was a joy to hear the arrangements take shape.

Getting back to Trend Studios in Dublin, where we’d recorded our first demos and early singles, and work again with larger than life studio engineer Fred Meijer, was another important milestone. The album was well received and impressive sales meant that Barry and I had to fly from London mid-tour to attend an event and collect a gold album on behalf of the band. There’s a curious timeless quality to the record that befits a true labour of love."

- Horslips' drummer Eamon Carr

TRACKLIST

1. Rug Muire Mac Do Dhia

2. Sir Festus Burke / Carolan's Frolic

3. The Snow That Melts the Soonest

4. The Piper in the Meadow Straying

5. Drive the Cold Winter Away

6. Thompson's / Cottage in the Grove

7. Ny Kirree Fo Naghtey

8. Crabs in the Skillet

9. Denis O'Connor

10. Do'n Oíche Úd I mBeithil

11. Lullaby

12. The Snow and the Frost Are All Over / Paddy Fahey's

13. When a Man's in Love

Re-mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Peter Mew & Horslips from the original tapes.

Recorded in Trend Studios - September 1975.

Engineer: Fred Meijer

Design: Charles O'Connor

Layout: Chris Ellis