Dougie MacLean - Essential
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Artist: Dougie MacLeanEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-11-03
Music Label: Blix Street
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Marching Mystery
- Ca' the Yowes
- Singing Land
- Rite of Passage
- Mr. & Mrs. MacLean of Snaigow
- Not Lie Down
- Caledonia
- Another Time
- Holding Back
- Home
- Till Tomorrow
- The Fair City
- This Love Will Carry
- Ready For The Storm
- Not Look Down
- She Will Find Me
- Broken Wings
- Garden Valley
- Turning Away
- The Gael
- Gloomy Winter
- We ll Be Together Again
- Scythe Song
- Trail of the Survivor
- Solid Ground
- Edmonton Airbus/Craigie Dhu
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Music Review: Heart Warming - demands listening
Rating: 4 Stars
People who like Scotland and her typical music sooner or later come across the name "Dougie MacLean". He wrote and sang many songs and ballads - best known probably "Caledonia" and "The Gael" (the latter being used in the movie "The Last of the Mohicans" with Daniel Day Lewis).
This double CD selection contains two hours of 26 wonderful songs - and many catchy tunes!
Most of the lyrics are inspired by Mr. MacLean's rural upbringing in Perthshire like the Scythe Song (...to use a scythe/play a guitar "cannot be learned inside a day"...) or The Storm (about a sailor's live and his constant fight with the sea) or from tales collected during his travels around the world (Garden Valley/ an Immigrant's ways of life, Rite of Passage/ teaching young ones the Aborigines' life) or love songs (This love will carry). One usually likes some songs better than others - same here - but Dougie MacLean's voice is always heart warming, soft yet strong, and also the instrumental pieces are a joy - in short: "this music demands listening". (For further info as well as for the lyrics check [...].
By the way: "The Gael" in a very modern and rock-like version can be found on the Album "Parallel Tracks" of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards" - I promise you will not be able to keep your feet still!
Parallel Tracks
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Description of Essential
This two-disc set, each disc containing 13 tracks and one hour playing time, includes some of Dougie's finest work. Often called "The James Taylor of Scotland," Dougie MacLean has long been in the forefront of the Scottish music scene and an international folk hero. Known for his rich imagery, lyrical melodies and an innovative style deeply rooted in his Scottish heritage.Folk CDs
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