Restlessly imaginative, passionate in his beliefs, guitarist Dick Gaughan is a commanding presence on the Scots musical scene. His subtle singing and intricate guitar playing create a fabric of arresting beauty and colour. Traditional and contemporary songs sung with grace and feeling are interspersed with bagpipe jigs and fiddle reels transposed to guitar in this multifaceted collection.

DICK GAUGHAN GAUGHAN TSCD384

1 Bonnie Jeannie o' Bethelnie
2 Bonnie Lass Amang the Heather
3 6/8 marches: Alan MacPherson of Mosspark / The Jig of Slurs
4 Crooked Jack
5 The Recruited Collier
6 The Augengeich Disaster
7 Bonnie Woodha'
8 The Pound a Week Rise
9 12/8 jigs & reels: Ask My Father / Lads of Laoise / The Connaught Heifers
10 My Donald
11 jigs: Strike the Gay Harp / Shores of Lough Gowna
12 Willie o' Winsbury
13 Such a Parcel o' Rogues in a Nation
14 Shetland reels: Jack Broke the Prison Door / Donald Blue / Wha'll Dance wi' Wattie
15 Gillie Mor

Dick Gaughan guitar, vocals
Alistair Anderson English concertina
Barry Lyons bass guitar
Tom Hickland piano

DICK GAUGHAN HANDFUL OF EARTH TSCD419

This mixture of love songs, odes of parting and political commentaries such as Worker's Song and World Turned Upside Down is Gaughan's most complex and emotionally penetrating album, and has come to be recognised as a masterwork.

'Album of the Decade.' - Folk Roots

1 Erin-Go-Bragh
2 Now Westlin' Winds
3 Craigie Hill
4 World Turned Upside Down
5 The Snows They Melt the Soonest
6 Lough Erne / First Kiss at Parting
7 Scojun Waltz / Randers Hopsa
8 Song for Ireland
9 Workers' Song
10 Both Sides the Tweed

Dick Gaughan vocals, guitar
Brian McNeill fiddles, acoustic bass
Phil Cunningham keyboards, whistle
Stewart Isbister electric bass