The latest from fine Scots singer composer Jim Malcolm, who combines his solo singing career with touring the world with traditional band The Old Blind Dogs. Jim won the Best Songwriter Award in the 2004 Scots Trad Music Awards.
Featuring Jim Malcolm - vocals and much else: Fraser Stone - drums, percussion: Simon McKerrell - pipes,whistles: Pete Clark- fiddle, viola, Dave Watt - keyboards, melodica: Susie Malcolm - backing vocals.
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PERTHSHIRE singer Jim Malcolm's epic setting of Burns's celebrated poem may be the centrepiece of this new disc, but for the most part it is a showcase for his own increasingly accomplished songwriting.
PERTHSHIRE singer Jim Malcolm's epic setting of Burns's celebrated poem may be the centrepiece of this new disc, but for the most part it is a showcase for his own increasingly accomplished songwriting. The songs range from a delicate evocation of childhood memories inspired by his own kids to more tradition-derived material in Jeannie Reid's Hoose on the Green Jo or Corrievrechan. Instrumental backings are kept spare, foregrounding the songs and the singer.
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