The first album recorded for Topic by the reknowned Dick Gaughan, 'Coppers & Brass' is an impressive instrumental set from one of Scotland's finest folk musicians. Dick Gaughan performs a collection of jigs, hornpipes, reels and marches, learned from pipers and fiddlers [...]
Traditional and contemporary songs sung with grace and feeling are interspersed with bagpipe jigs and fiddle reels transposed to guitar in this multifaceted collection. The CD includes bonus tracks from Dick's 1977 instrumental collection Coppers And Brass and two songs from the [...]
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." - [...]