ARTIST: Robin Laing
TITLE: The Water Of Life
LABEL: Greentrax Recordings
GENRE: Folk
SOURCE: CD
BITRATE: 162 kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 53:06
RELEASE DATE: 2003-00-00
RIP DATE: 2010-01-14
Track List
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1. A Wee Drappie o't 3:01
2. Shining Clear 2:53
3. Jock Geddes and the Soo 4:07
4. Lochanside 4:29
5. The Devil Uisge Beatha 3:36
6. The Best o' the Barley 5:02
7. The Wag at the Wa' 4:07
8. Bruichladdich 3:54
9. A Cogie o' Yill 3:11
10. The Queer Folk in the Shaws 3:20
11. The Barley Bree 4:00
12. The Ghost wi' the Squeaky Wheel 5:42
13. The Gulls of Invergordon 3:11
14. A Wee Drap o' Whiskey 2:33
Release Notes:
Robin follows on from his 1997 album dedicated to "The Angel's Share" with
another collection of fourteen songs from the book on the subject of whisky.
Whisky is in the air in Scotland - all that steady evaporation of spirit from
countless casks quietly aging to maturity. The angels get some of it, but it has
also inspired many great songs and poems which Robin Laing has been collecting
for years.
In 1997 Robin recorded an album of whisky songs (The AngelsÆ Share) and in 2001
he published a book of 95 songs and poems about Scotch whisky (The Whisky Muse).
Working on the book made Robin realise that there were many more whisky songs
still to be recorded and The Water of Life album was born.
Robin selected 14 songs and enlisted the aid of Davy Scott of The Pearlfishers
to help "the process of distilling the material down into the finished product".
The main aims were to let each song with its story and æfeelÆ dictate the
musical treatment and to have fun in the process.
The album is dedicated by Robin to the makers of whisky and to the makers of
song, the distillers and the songwriters, the alchemists and the poets. Without
them Scotland would be a poorer place!
Robin Laing (guitar, vocals) with Davy Scott (guitar, bass, keyboards, piano,
organ), Charlie McKerron (fiddle), Brian McAlpine (accordion, organ, piano), Jim
Gash (drums) and Derek Starr (percussion).
www.robinlaing.com