The Rough Guide to Scottish Folk
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2001-10-08
Music Label: World Music Network
Soundtracks:
- Clan Coco/The Road to Benderloch/Fifteen Stubbies to Warragul - The Battlefield Band
- Griogal Cridhe (Beloved Gregor) - Mac-Talla
- Rithill Aill - Karen Matheson
- Heart and Soul - Wolfstone
- Crags of Ailas/Staffa's Shore - Alison Kinnaird
- Queen of Argyll - Silly Wizard
- John Griffin's - Rory Campbell, Malcolm Stitt
- Centennial Waltz - Fiddlers Five
- Good Drying Set - The Tannahill Weavers
- Tha M'Eudail Is M'Aighear 's Mo Ghradh (My Treasure, My Delight, ...) - Christine Primrose
- Dirty Old Town - Ewan MacColl
- 's Gann Gunn Dirich Mi Chaoidh - Ossian
- Quiet Man/The Solstice/The Silver Spire - Jonny Hardie, Gavin Marwick
- Harper/Lady Catherine Ogle
- Gathering Storms/The Lowland of Scotland/Feaden Glan A; Phiobair - Ross Kennedy, Archie Mcallister
- Jack Broke da Prison Door/Donald Blue/Sleep Soond Ida ... - Tom Anderson, Aly Bain
- Wooden Whale/Leaps & Bounds/Skeye Barbeque - Alasdair Fraser
- Tree - Capercaillie
- Swallow-Tailed Coat/Turf Lodge - Burgess, John
Music reviews of The Rough Guide to Scottish Folk
Music Review: So much fun, such a unique sound
Rating: 5 Stars
I love Scottish music, and what I love about this compilation is the way it includes so much variety. It's just plain fun to listen to.
The samples are really representative of what the album sounds like (unlike some albums where there's a complete disconnect) so if you enjoy the samples, you're really likely to enjoy the CD.
It's not something I listen to all the time, but when I pull it out, it takes me right back to my favorite trip to Scotland which is such a treat, especially on a rainy Saturday.
Description of The Rough Guide to Scottish Folk
A celebration of song and dance from one of Europe's strongest living folk traditions, featuring poignant Gaelic laments, the beauty of the Scottish harp, jigs and reels from the finest contemporary folk bands, and a rousing finale from the 'King of Highland Pipers'.Artists include: Silly Wizard, Mac-Talla, Capercaillie, The Tannahill Weavers, Ewan Maccoll, Tom Anderson with Aly Bain, Karen Matheson and Alasdair Fraser
There's far more to Scottish folk than the skirl of bagpipes (although that's a part of it, and excellently represented here by John D. Burgess). Fiddle features prominently, as does song, and the ceilidh dance tradition (Tom Anderson and Aly Bain offer a stunning ceilidh set). Gaelic was the native language, and it's never died out, as a number of singers here show. Up in the Isles, it's the tradition of mouth music that lives on, and Capercaillie's Karen Matheson offers a modern version of one of those puirt-a-beul songs. Reels and jigs are also as much a part of the country as the heather, and they're here in force. But the south of Scotland has long been urban, and Ewan MacColl's "Dirty Old Town" is something of a grimy hymn to that modernity. For an introduction to music strongly influenced by the tradition, this is honestly hard to beat. --Chris Nickson
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