On this single CD lucky listeners are treated to some 75 minutes of fantastic Scottish traditional music from one of the all time best bands. And why so much music? Well, this album incorporates most of the 1980 album 'Jock Tamson's Bairns' and all of the 1982 album 'The Lasses Fashion'. The latter is still regarded as one of the finest expressions of the great revival of traditional music that helped shape and create the contemporary Scottish identity, and was chosen as one of the all-time top ten albums - and the only 'folk' recording - alongside Elvis Presley, the Platters and the Smiths, by Richard Thompson for "Q" magazine!
Musicians on The Lasses Fashion Tracks 1-10 Norman Chalmers: concertina whistles, piano John Croall: vocals, bodhran, whistles, bones Jack Evans: guitar, acoustic bass guitar, mandolin, cittern, flute, melodeon. Ian Hardie: fiddle, viola, acoustic bass guitar, vocals Derek Hoy: fiddle Rod Paterson: vocals, guitar, mandola, cittern, trump.
Musicians on Jock Tamson’s Bairns Track 11 – 20 Norman Chalmers: concertina whistles John Croall: vocals, bodhran Tony Cuffe: vocals, guitar, whistles, tiple Jack Evans: guitar, mandolin, whistle, low whistle, moothie, melodeon Ian Hardie: fiddle, vocals Adam Jack: vocals, fiddle Rod Paterson: vocals, mandola
Media Reviews
a truly outstanding recording, A Lasses Fashion is deservedly acknowledged as one of the greatest recordings of traditional Scots music."
"Wonderful singing and instrumentals,Highly recommended."
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