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Between the Pines by RURA

With lyrics from acclaimed Scottish singer, Adam Holmes, and a tune from piper and whistle player, Steven Blake (both members of the band), ‘Between the Pines’ is a stirring, anthemic song from RURA’s hotly anticipated second album, ‘Despite the Dark’, released on April 27. One of the most hotly anticipated – and feverishly requested – […]

One Step Closer by Hannah Read

The opening track from Hannah’s album recorded in Boston. Hannah Read is a Scottish born, New York dwelling singer-songwriter, fiddle player and composer. Raised in Edinburgh and on The Isle of Eigg, Hannah started playing Scottish traditional music at the age of six. She studied in Paris before she moved to the US to attend […]

Away From the Pits by Barluath

Away from the Pits was written by Chris Algar and first recorded by Vin Garbutt. When the song was written (c.1990) coal mines were still operating in Stoke. A new seam had been built under the road where Chris lived, and he noticed houses on the street starting to deteriorate following this. The stimulus for […]

Noise Show by Twelfth Day

Track 1 from Twelfth Day’s 2014 album The Devil Makes Three. Twelfth Day are fiddle player Catriona Price and harpist Esther Swift. They both sing – often in unison, creating a new voice that is neither one nor the other. They both write – together, weaving traditional folk with classical elements to create a music […]

Music of the Loom by Danny Kyle

According to his sleeve notes, Danny defines the “heroes” as the songs and their carriers, whilst the “soft targets” are the people for whom they were written. By that definition, then, as well as by many others, Danny Kyle was indeed a hero. On this CD we have thirteen tracks which reflect exactly the mixture […]

Queen of Argyll by Silly Wizard

The Queen of Argyll was always a hugely popular live song for Silly Wizard, one of Scotland’s all-time most influential folk bands. This version was recorded in front of a sell out crowd in Cambridge, Massachusetts during the band’s 1983 North American tour. The recording was originally released as 2 LPs. A repackaged and re-mastered […]

Scotland’s Winter by Siobhan Miller

This track is a musical setting of the Edwin Muir poem Scotland’s Winter, by Ewan Macpherson from the debut solo album from Siobhan Miller, ‘Flight of Time.’ Recently Siobhan’s soulful and stirring renewal of traditional song has seen her voted Scots Singer of the Year in the Scots Trad Music Awards, not once but twice. […]

Seer and the Lord by Salt House

Taken from the album ‘Lay Your Dark Low’, an original song based on the legend of the Brahan Seer, words and music by Ewan MacPherson. Acoustic four-piece Salt House is the meeting of four distinct musical minds on the Scottish scene. Their highly current sound is earthy, deep-rooted, yet eagerly progressive, built from grassroots folk […]

Queen of Elfan’s Nourice by Rachel Newton

From Rachel Newton’s album ‘Changeling’. Words taken from Child Ballad no.40, music written by Rachel Newton Rachel Newton is a singer, harpist and composer from Edinburgh. Member of The Shee, The Emily Portman Trio and The Furrow Collective as well as releasing solo albums ‘The Shadow Side’ and ‘Changeling’. Artist website: http://www.rachelnewtonmusic.com Single title: Queen […]

Baker Street by Barbara Dickson

This album was released by Barbara Dickson to keep alive the memory and awareness of the prodigious talent that was Gerry Rafferty’; the fundamental motivation behind this album and the hope that it would come to fruition. Barbara says, ‘Gerry Rafferty, was, for me, amongst the best songwriters of his generation. This is subjective of […]

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