Willie Scott was born in the Borders and spent most of his working life herding on those same rolling hills. His father and mother both sang, other members of the family played fiddle or accordion and his wife Frances, was also an accordion player and singer. The songs here mostly relate to country life, certainly the country that Willie Scott would have known. Fine songs they are too, sung at a regular even pace

"A man with an insatiable appetite for songs, many were venerable indeed such as the fragments of old Border riding ballads. Willie's singing of The Kielder Hunt, with that inimitable closing whoop, was something that seemed to echo from time out of mind, never to be forgotten."...Jim Gilchrist, The Scotsman