A CD in the Series Borders Traditions featuring new and archive recordings of Borders-style fiddlers. This exciting compilation amply illustrates just how significant is the tradition of playing music on the fiddle in the Scottish Borders. This CD features recordings from 1973 by Border shepherd Bob Hopkirk, Jimmy Nagle, Ian Anderson, Andrew Harvey, Will Renwick, Wattie Robson and James Wilkie.

The booklet notes, ( written by Dr Fred Freeman), point out that the fiddle music of the Borders has been rather overlooked in recent years.  Scottish fiddle music, to most people today, is the music of the North East and of Shetland, of Scott Skinner and of Tom Anderson.  And, of course, this is incorrect.  There always has been a thriving tradition of fiddle music on both sides of the Border.  Think, for example, of Willy Taylor or Ned Pearson on the Northumbrian side, or of Tommy Hughes who played with his father and grandfather at many a Border kirn.  In Jimmy Nagle we see the tradition continuing for a further generation, Jimmy being the grandson of Tommy Hughes!