A beautiful Gaelic song
Archie Grant was a 1931 Mod Gold medallist and one of the best-known Gaelic singers during the pre- and post-war periods. While known through his recordings on Beltona and, latterly, Parlophone, and for his platform appearances and radio broadcasts, Grant was in his own way an example of the oral tradition, preferring to sing unaccompanied, and dispersing the many Gaelic songs for which he composed the melodies into circulation, without any thought for copyright.
Known as a Skye man, and with the fluent Gaelic of a native speaker, he was in fact born in 1902 in Lenzie, Dunbartonshire, where his father, who came from Boreraig, was a railwayman. Archie was seven before the family returned to his father’s island. His mother came from the musical Turner family on Islay. Family lore has him singing at a wedding at the tender age of four – his party piece was Chuir iad an t-sùil a Pilot bochd, a song about a one-eyed dog.
Archie was inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame in 2014.
Artist website: http://projects.handsupfortrad.scot/hall-of-fame/archie-grant/
Single title: Eilean Mocaridh
Album title:The Secret Museum of Mankind Vol. 4: Ethnic Music Classics (1925 – 48)
Single artist: Archie Grant
Single duration: 3:07
Writers: Traditional
Publishers: MCPS / PRS
Explicit?: No
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