Artist	Song
Gene Pitney	She Lets Her Hair Down (Early In The Morning) (2:42)
Incredible String Band	The Eyes Of Fate [Chelsea Sessions version] (3:58)
Robert Wyatt	Blues In Bob Minor (5:46)
Kenny Klein	Purple Heather (Wild Mountain Thyme) (3:09)
Cherish The Ladies	The Broom of the Cowdenknowes (4:33)
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band	The Floppy Boot Stomp (3:51)
Peter, Paul & Mary	Too Much of Nothing (2:29)
Fairport Convention	I'm Already There (6:42)
Mr. Bungle	Pink Cigarette (4:55)
French/Frith/Kaiser/Thompson	Where's The Money? (3:52)
Christy Moore	Unfinished Revolution (3:59)
Jewels and Binoculars	Highway 61 Revisited (4:40)
Iarla O Lionßird	In England (5:48)
Gaelic Storm	Bonnie Ship The Diamond / Tamlinn (5:25)
Gary Lucas feat. David Johansen	Spider Web (4:26)
Fairport Convention feat. Anna Ryder	The Crowd (6:14)
Tom Waits	No One Knows I'm Gone (1:42)
Rod Stewart	Purple Heather (Wild Mountain Thyme) (4:58)

Comment:

My choice of title track refers to two groups of down-and-outs who, in hardscrabble folklore, have traditionally made such a pertinent pecuniary demand: the Irish, and avant-garde musicians. Well, that started out as the concept, kind of like my Celtic-videogame music "Mix CD -- YOU??" collaboration, but I suppose it got derailed at various points. Now that it's a year or so since I made this, I realize, revisiting this mix, that the avant-garde isn't really as avant-garde as it seemed at the time (though "The Floppy Boot Stomp", regardless of its pedigree, is still the best Beefheart track *ever*), but now, maybe because of that, I think it just sounds like a journeying world-music-esque continuum, helped along by such intermediaries as that folk-freak, Tom Waits, and that loopy Irishman, Iarla O Lionßird. Oh, and I stand by the Rod Stewart selection (a recapitulation of track 4, also). Maybe I've just got a weakness for album-closing orchestral soul-folk. The arrangement is really the thing here -- lift it *higher*!!

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