Various Artists
Discover Music from Scotland (CD)

EUCD2595

A proud album of Scottish music, spanning the whole spectrum from traditional folk and ballads, sung in Gaelic, to jigs and reels, with fiddles, guitars, accordions, etc. to rousing pipe band pieces. Information about each of the pieces in the booklet.

Track listing:

Tannas: Sabhal Ia’n Ic Uisdean (trad., arr. Garden/Mackay/Legge/Dove/Mackay/Bulk Music Ltd.) - 2:45
Noel McLoughlin: The Blantyre Explosion (trad, arr. Noel McLouglin) - 4:00
Ross Kennedy & Archie McAllister: The Auld Wheel (J. S. Skinner, arr. Kennedy/McAllister/Bulk Music Ltd)/Lads of Laois (trad., arr. Kennedy/McAllister /Bulk Music Ltd)/Hey Ho My Bonnie Lass (trad., arr. Kennedy/McAllister/Bulk Music Ltd)/Twisted Fingers (D. Johnstone /Kinmor Music) - 3:42
Strathclyde Police Pipe Band: Bessie Weatherston (Mac Kenzie)/Crusaders March (trad.)/79th Highlanders (trad.)/The Garb of Old Gaul (trad.) - 2:54
Iain MacKay: Mòr nighean a’ Ghibearlain (trad., arr. Iain MacKay) - 3:08
Anna Murray: Slieve Russel(Mhoireach/McMillian)/Donald Cameron’s Powder Horn (P.M. Donald MacLeod) - 3:42
Ross Kennedy & Archie McAllister: Bay of Storms (E. Maguire/D. Robertson/Bulk Music Ltd) - 4:00
Jonny Hardie & Gavin Marwick: The Quiet Man (Jim Sutherland/Atholl Music)/The Solstice (Jason Colburn Little/Cop. Con.)/The Silver Spire (trad., arr. Gavin Marwick/Jonny Hardie/Bulk Music Ltd) - 4:21
Ishbel MacAskill: Thig an smeòrach as t-Earrach (The Thrush Comes in Spring) (trad., arr. MacAskill/Douglas) - 3:42
Coila/Alistair McCulloch, Andrew McGarva & William Weir: Jigs: Lady in a Bottle (A. Kenneth/Public Domain)/The Drops of Brandy (trad., arr. A. McCulloch/W. Weir/A. McGarva/Bulk Music Ltd)/Ewan Mackenzie’s Free Bass Accordion (A. McCulloch/Fellsongs Music)/The Curlew (D.McPherson/Paterson’s Publication Ltd) - 4:05
Stonehaven Pipe Band: Hornpipes: The Queen of the Rushes (trad.)/The Muckle Dram (Sargent) - 2:53
The Iron Horse: Helen of Kirkconnel (trad., arr. Iron Horse/Bulk Music Ltd) - 3:28
Dòchas: Waulking Song (arr. Dòchas)/Gura Mise Tha Fo Mhulad/Braes of Melinish (trad.,arr. Boyle/Fowlis/MacKay/Reid) - 3:45
Noel McLoughlin: Rattlin’, Roarin’ Willie (trad, arr. Noel McLouglin) - 3:06
Anna Murray: The Hazy Day (Mhoireach/(Bulk Music Ltd)/Zeto the Bubbleman (Duncan/Grian Music)/The Last Tango in Harris (MacDonald) - 6:35
Old Blind Dogs: Mormond Braes (trad., arr. Old Blind Dogs/Benzie/Hardie/Mcmill/Bulk Musik Ltd)/Charles Sutherland (J.M. Henderson/John Murdoch Henderson Dec’d.) - 3:06
Cliar: The Para Handy Set: Mrs. John MacColl (P/M John MacColl)/Pipe Major Jimmy MacGregor - Jig (John Scott)/Inspector Donald Campbell of Ness - Jig (Peter MacLeod Jnr.)/Manus Lunny’s Plower Pot - Jig (Phil Cunningham) (all arr. Cliar) (instr.) - 5:00
Isla St. Clair: Flowers of the Forest (trad./Elliot, arr. Ian Lynn) - 3:47

Published: 2015

Genre: Irish & Scottish & Brittany
Label: Arc Music