The ubiquitous keyboard man, Thorburn has played with everyone - or is just about to. Blues, rockabilly, salsa, classical, folk and experimental, it’s all just music to the widely travelled Englishman who has over the past two decades made Scotland his home. Although he currently holds the piano chair in Blazin’ Fiddles, he still finds time to compose, often for live theatre.
Here, his uniquely beautiful ‘Marni Swanson of the Grey Coast’ leads on to another 10 of his own absorbing solo piano compositions, ranging from windswept melancholy to barrelhouse R&B à la Dr John, recorded on a classic Steinway in the remote Highland fastness of Ackergill Tower.
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