ARTIST: Dick Gaughan
TITLE: No More Forever
LABEL: Leader
GENRE: Folk
SOURCE: CD
BITRATE: 181 kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 43:39
RELEASE DATE: 1972-00-00
RIP DATE: 2010-12-18
Track List
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1. Battlin' Roarin' Willie ; The 2:17
Friar's Britches
2. MacCrimmon's Lament , Mistress 5:26
Jamieson's Favourite
3. Jock O' Hazeldean 4:12
4. Cam' Ye Ower Frae France 1:58
5. The Bonnie Banks O' Fordie 7:17
6. The Thatchers O Glenrae 1:58
7. The Fair Flower Of 5:25
Northumberland
8. The Teatotaller ; Da Tushker 2:24
9. The Three Healths 2:30
10. The John MacLean March 2:33
11. The Green Linnet 7:39
Release Notes:
This was recorded on a 2-Track Revox in Bill Leader's front room in July 1971.
We had to stop recording and go to the pub when the traffic noise was too heavy!
It was my first record. In January that year, I had moved to London at the
invitation of Robin Dransfield to explore the possibility of teaming up with him
and Barry. I had known them for several years - Robin was a regular visitor to
Edinburgh and Barry lived there for a while in the late 60s. They had just had
great acclaim for their Rout of the Blues album with Bill Leader's Trailer
label. The combination didn't actually work out but they took me round to Bill's
house in Camden Town and introduced me to him and recommended that he make a
record of me. I got the guitar out and sang him a couple of songs and he said
OK.
I phoned Aly who I had known since he came to Edinburgh from Shetland and was
playing in a duo with Mike Whellans and he agreed to play on a couple of tracks.
At the time, I was living in a hippy community in Wimbledon, making almost a
living by busking the London Underground and Portobello Road - it was a really
hot summer and Aly and I rehearsed for the record sitting on the grass at the
Crooked Billet outside 'our' pubs, the King of Denmark and the Hand in Hand. A
year later, I moved back to Scotland to join him in Boys of the Lough after Mike
Whellans' departure.
After all these years, the thing which strikes me about this record is that it
fell between two stools regarding the use of Lowland Scots language in my
self-conscious attempts to 'anglify' pronunciation (as was conventional for
Scots to do for many years) while remaining true to the tongue. We have learned
better since that time.
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