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 […]
The Loch Ness Monster by The Whistlebinkies
Two jigs from the bagpipe tradition. The first is by one of Canada’s leading pipers and composers, Jim McGillivray. The second, by Peter MacLeod of Partick, Glasgow, was inspired by the famous 1934 photograph of the elusive beast taken by Robert Kenneth Wilson Formed during the great surge of interest in traditional and Celtic music […]
The Corrie Man by Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas
A medley of mostly traditional tunes. Alex Dan MacIsaac’s, a strathspey, Fear a’ Choire The Corrie Man), a Skye puirt a beul, and pipe reels Little Donald in the Pigpen and The Quinie Fae Rhynie (Steve Saint). ISRC: USCQR1412401 This track is from the newest album by the hugely talented Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas, […]
Peatbog Soldiers by The McCalmans
Ian McCalman got behind the project for the ‘No Pasaran’ cd and recorded 6 of the songs. Ian also searched his archive of multi-track tapes of McCalmans’ recordings and unearthed ‘The Peatbog Soldiers’, recorded ‘live’ in 1979 by the original lineup of Ian, Derek Moffat and Hamish Bayne. This is as good as any version […]
The Old Battalion by Scottish Pals Singers
One of twenty-seven soldiers’ songs and six music hall songs were recorded and produced by Ian McCalman. The ‘Scottish Pals’ Singers, as we named them for CD1, are Fiona Forbes (Sangsters), Ian Bruce, Tich Frier, Hamish Bayne and the current ‘McCalmans’ lineup of Ian, Stephen Quigg and Nick Keir. Much of the instrumental work is […]
Indiana by The Paul McKenna Band
Track written by A Mitchell from the The Paul McKenna’s Band most recent single. Their arrangements are fresh and innovative but do not stray too far from their traditional roots. Their sound is exciting and is created by the solid lead vocals and guitar of Paul McKenna, the driving bouzouki and mandolin of David McNee, […]
Edward by Keep it Up
This is the opening track of Keep it Up’s second album On Safari. It features 3 reels – The Glasgow Hornpipe, Knit the Pocky, and The Uist Regatta (Edward Pearlman). Keep it Up made two albums. They consisted of Eilidh Shaw, Simon Thoumire, Kevin MacKenzie and Malcolm Stitt. The band specialised in lilting Scottish music […]
The Final Trawl by Back of the Moon
The Final Trawl was written by folk legend Archie Fisher and the story of life on the sea. Back of the Moon are another tremendous Scottish traditional band, comprising Gillian Frame – fiddle, vocals Ali Hutton –pipes, Findlay Napier – guitars, vocals and Hamish Napier – piano, flutes and vocals. The founder members got together […]
Farewell Tae The Haven by Ceolbeg
One of Davy Steele’s greatest songs about the decline of the fishing trade in Scotland From the CD Ceolbeg ‘Collected’ which is a collection of some of the highlights of the music of Ceolbeg. Both the Band and Greentrax are very proud of what this mainly part-time band achieved over so many years and the […]
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