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Putumayo reaches to Ireland and Scotland (and a couple of other places) to delight us with one of the label's best offerings yet. "Celtic Crossroads" spans the distance between largely traditional presentations of the Celtic sound, such as "The House Carpenter" from Mick McAuley and Sinead O'Connor's rendition of "Her Mantle So Green" (which, admittedly, is a tad untraditional in that it's a woman being smitten by the beauty of a woman, but there's nothing wrong with that), to smart mixings of ancient melodies and today's technology like "Captain Coull's Parrot" by the Peatbog Faeries and Ashley MacIsaac feat. Mary Jane Lamond with "To America We Go," not to mention the beautiful bouquet of tracks that fall somewhere in the middle and touch on established contemporary Celtic aesthetic considerations. The collection's standout is "Wild Mountain Thyme," whose union of the sounds of old and the electronica flair of now is amply suggested by the name of the band: Keltik Elektrik. That tune brings the listener back again and again. Putumayo never fails to provide the listener with top shelf world music, but "Celtic Crossroads" alone gives the label all the meaning in life it could ever need.-- review by Kristofer Upjohn
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