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Artist: Jiggernaut
Album: Evolution
Year: 2004
As random as the discovery of a four-leaf clover in a field of threes, “Evolution” is a treasured find worthy of pressing into the plastic pages of your CD folder. There whenever you crave an indulgent soundbite, this perpetual track list offers twelve selections, each as different as Irish creme from Pop Rocks.
Traditional, modern, male singer Wolf Loescher, female singer Deanna Smith Scotland (of Texas), Highland bagpipes, electric bouzouki, flute, moxy and prayer, there’s a song highlighting each. Eclectic to the very core, Jiggernaut’s second album is sequel-bent on originality.
It all starts out a little bit country, with “The Shepard Lad” willed into being by the resonating vocals of Scotland (Deanna that is). Next, “Mi Amigo Pagará” is bagpipes thrown over the top of a waterfall of accompaniment, all-night hootenanny style. This is the kind of music your Scottish grandmother listens to…when she’s wearing her suede-fringed kilt and sporting a pink Mohawk. Feel no guilt, have fun and revel in “Sofia to St. Andrew”, where the instrumental fusion is a jazzed pilgrimage toward a new religion in Celtic meditation.
“Thousands are sailing” is the end track launched by the voice of Loescher, which surfs the line between folk ballad and dance jig to the very edge. A wild romp through the shillelaghs for sure, this mix is the stuff of band legends.
Dionne Charlet is a freelance writer based in Greater New Orleans. She is a contributing writer for Where Y’at Magazine and reviews music for Marc Gunn’s Celtic MP3s Music Magazine. Dionne runs the Cast Aways Open Theatre Troupe and performs with her fellow Cast Aways volunteers at Ren faires, sci-fi cons, charity venues and festivals throughout the Gulf Coast and beyond. Mrs. Charlet also works as an Outreach Coordinator for the Humane Society of Louisiana. You can contact Dionne at SHIATARA@AOL.com.
