A Mountaineer is Always Free

The second track – A Mountaineer Is Always Free – was co-written with Alabama singer songwriter Pierce Pettis, and it speaks of the immigrant’s pride in making a home and family in the new world. Pierce’s brain was firing away, and as he riffed ideas and I wrote them down and changed a few to make them rhyme. He remembered that the seal of the state of West Virginia contains the Latin – Montani Semper Liberi – and said excitedly, “There’s your song title.” This track is one of several featuring the bass of Viktor Krauss and the guitar of Darrell Scott, who at that point was my regular touring partner. Seamus Egan added low whistles.

Seamus Egan : low whistles
Frankie Gavin : fiddle
Victor Krauss : bass
John Mock : percussion
Darrell Scott : guitar
Tim O'Brien : vocal and bouzouki
Jeff White : vocal

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