Scottish Accordion Kings - Various Artists: This newly released excellent CD, the first volume in a collection of Scottish Accordion Kings, showcases ten of today’s traditional and contemporary players from different areas of Scotland playing in their own unique styles. Tom Alexander - Glasgow, Stuart Anderson - Aberdeenshire, Robert Black - Perthshire, John Carmichael - Glasgow, Ray Carse - Armadale, Phil Cunningham – Edinburgh, Tommy Ford - Stirlingshire, Addie Harper Jnr - Caithness, Simon Howie - Perthshire, Gordon Pattullo - Perthshire. The accordion found its place in Scottish music lending itself to playing alongside the fiddle in traditional music and in dance bands and has remained so with the exposure and popularity gained by renowned players such as the late Jimmy Shand, Will Starr and Bobby MacLeod to mention a few. 18 tracks