"The
Reel World" Roguetrip Review"The
Reel World" Roguetrip Reviewby Tom Nelligan
"...To finish up with one more instrumental group, from the Texas bagpipe tradition (yes, there is one, as regular readers of this column should know) come The Rogues, a pipe-and-percussion quartet that makes an impressive racket.
"The
mostly instrumental Roguetrip [self-released 2005] features Highland
and Breton bagpipes played individually and in splendidly cacophonous duets
by pipers E.J. Jones (long mainstay of the Houston band Clandestine) and Jeremy
Freeman, who between them also wrote much of the material here. Arrangements
are often pipes with just percussion and/or guitar, but keyboards, flute, and
a full band show up on a couple of tracks. There are Scottish-style marches,
jigs, and slow aires, a couple of sets of Breton dance tunes, an oddly metered
visit to Bulgaria, and a bagpipe blues jam. All you kilted cowboys pull on
your boots and stomp along!"
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