Recorded live in the Birnam Hotel's great vaulted hall this is the first solo album by the great Lochaber traditional fiddler, sparingly accompanied by some friends and his son Angus - the fiddling frontman of acid crofters Shooglenifty. Scores of young players have absorbed the distinctive West Highland idiom from old Aonghas so in this age of creeping homogeneity, if you want a mature taste of salt, peat and Gaelic in your fiddle music, here it is.
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