content: This album provides a wonderful introduction to some of the many sadly neglected (at least in the U.S.) musicians of Eastern Canada. The Chieftains have wisely chosen to bring the guest artists front and center while limiting their own contribution. The result is a wide variety of styles and sounds, yet with the common denominator of the Chieftains it's a much more unified collection than most "sampler" albums. And, unlike most sampler albums, there's not a clunker in the bunch. The ballads are particularly entrancing, notably "My Bonnie" and "Come by the Hills," but the up-tempo cuts make for great fun as well. (If you can only check out one cut, make it "La Lys Vert" with La Bottine Souriante.) You will be listening to this one long after most of your Celtic collection is forgotten. Now if we could only make the recordings of these wonderful Canadian artists more available in the States! (How about it, Amazon?)