Dougie MacLean - The Dougie MacLean Collection
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Artist: Dougie MacLeanEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-03-21
Music Label: Putumayo World Music
Soundtracks:
- Rite Of Passage
- Singing Land
- Solid Ground
- Broken Wings
- Marching Mystery
- The Search
- Turning Away
- Caledonia
- Ready For The Storm
- Trail Of The Survivor
- This Love Will Carry
Music reviews of The Dougie MacLean Collection
Music Review: The ultimate album by one of Scotland's best singer-songwriters
Rating: 5 Stars
I picked this up on a lark, not knowing what to expect. I saw an interview with Dougie MacLean on a PBS special about Celtic culture and music, and was intrigued by what he had to say about the culture and its music. Dougie MacLean stands in a long line of tremendous singer-songwriters who tell tales about the land, its people, and what It All Means. He does it with a poetry and subtlety that few others do. It took a listen or two before I 'got it', but once I did, I felt like I had been let in on some kind of insider's secret. Do get this album. There's not a bad song on it, and you'll find that many artists have done covers of Dougie MacLean's songs for a good reason - they're beautiful, poignant, and speak to the heart of the Celtic soul. Slainte mhath.
Description of The Dougie MacLean Collection
In 1990, country star Kathy Mattea decided she needed to slow down and reconnect with her musical roots. That meant folk music, and she took some time off to go visit her favorite Scottish folk singer, Dougie MacLean. While over there, MacLean coproduced and played several instruments on Mattea's version of "From a Distance," and when Mattea returned to Nashville, she recorded a version of MacLean's "Ready for the Storm." Both songs showed up on Mattea's '91 album, Time Passes By, and left her fans asking, Who is this Dougie MacLean?This anthology answers that question. The Dougie MacLean Collection skims the cream from seven different albums and a video that MacLean released on his own Dunkeld Records in Scotland. The centerpiece of the collection is "Caledonia," a lovely homesick ballad which has become the unofficial anthem of Scottish nationalism. Throughout the album MacLean's sparkling acoustic guitar work is evidence of the long years he put in playing traditional Celtic tunes with such top Scottish folk bands as Silly Wizard and the Tannahill Weavers.
Many of his own compositions deal with his attachment to his homeland, and when he describes how "across the Arlick the amber sun beats down to tinge the vivid green," as he does on "Solid Ground," MacLean can be quite evocative. Unfortunately, he seldom stops himself before he turns simple sentiments into sentimental excess. With none of the saving humor of Andy Stewart or the tough-minded realism of Dick Gaughan, MacLean too often gives in to smug, middle-brow bombast. --Geoffrey Himes
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