Lori Watson is an excellent fiddle player - she also has credentials as a tune writer and singer. On this CD she demonstrates her many talents using a fair amount of material from her own Borders area including tunes from Tam Hughes and Bob Hobkirk plus a couple collected by James Hogg the "Ettrick Shepherd". Her fiddle playing has a nice lilt to it and there's a good arrangements, accompaniment and rapport between all the musicians. Most enjoyable.
Lori Watson - fiddle & vocals; Fiona Young - Piano accordion & piano; Innes Watson - guitar; Barry Reid - guitar.
Media Reviews
She is a beautifully articulated fiddle player, and a fine singer as well, as shown by When Maggie Gangs Away, and What Cana Young Lassie?"
"Borders fiddler Lori Watson revealed a more experimental side to her music in a recent composition for the Distil project. This debut recording finds her in more traditional but no less inventive vein in an attractive set of tunes and songs. She is a beautifully articulated fiddle player, and a fine singer as well, as shown by When Maggie Gangs Away, and What Cana Young Lassie?"
Thirled to her native traditions but sometimes leaning towards the continent, her highly skilled playing powers the fast dance tunes, but the group's musical originality shines most in the wide variety of slower airs
"A rich slice of assertive contemporary Scots tradition from the fiddler/singer composer Lori Watson and her two accomplished partners, accordionist Fiona Young and guitarist Innes Watson. Old songs are set to new melodies as in the prettily harmonised, gently fingerpicked 'When Maggie Gangs Away' by her fellow Borderer James Hogg, and if the unaccompanied song collected by Burns is less successful, there's another Hogg, and a ballad lit up with sound effects. Thirled to her native traditions but sometimes leaning towards the continent, her highly skilled playing powers the fast dance tunes, but the group's musical originality shines most in the wide variety of slower airs."
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