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This is the tragic story of the 51st Highland Division’s encirclement and capture at St Valery en Caux in Northern France in June 1940.<\/p>\n
I grew up in Kildonan Strath, Sutherland, where I loved the psalms and hymns and the old folk songs my father had learned from his drover grand uncle.Went on to Cash, the Corries and the Clancys, Tom Paxton and Dylan. Started playing guitar and writing songs in my teens, but only started recording this century with my rock band sons. Either solo or with my band, I’ve played all over Scotland.<\/p>\n
Artist website:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.alexjmacdonald.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Single title:<\/strong> St Valery Search Terms:<\/strong> {Search terms:18}<\/p>\n\n Follow these topics: contemporary<\/a>, folk band<\/a>, folk rock<\/a>, Newsletter<\/a>, Releases<\/a>, songwriter<\/a><\/p> This is the tragic story of the 51st Highland Division’s encirclement and capture at St Valery en Caux in Northern France in June 1940. I grew up in Kildonan Strath, Sutherland, where I loved the psalms and hymns and the old folk songs my father had learned from his drover grand uncle.Went on to Cash, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7310,"featured_media":5538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57,44,22,307,4,62],"tags":[301,138,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-5537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-contemporary","8":"category-folk-band","9":"category-folk-rock","10":"category-newsletter","11":"category-member-releases","12":"category-song-writer","13":"tag-highland-division","14":"tag-highlands","15":"tag-world-war-ii","16":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/files\/2021\/12\/HardAsNails-press.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5593,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions\/5593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAlbum title:<\/strong> Hard as Nails
\nRelease Date:<\/strong> 19\/11\/2021
\nSingle artist:<\/strong> Alex MacDonald
\nSingle duration:<\/strong> 8:32
\nRecord Label:<\/strong> Alex J MacDonald
\nCatalogue No:<\/strong> 0401
\nWriters:<\/strong> Alex MacDonald
\nPublishers:<\/strong> Alex MacDonald
\nExplicit?: No<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"