 | Various Artists - Between the Tay and the Forth
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(July 2000) 21 tracks: The Day That Billy Cody Played The Auld Grey Toon (John Watt); Living In The Past (Rab Noakes with The Varaflames); The Same Wind Blows on Me (Margot Cook); The Auld Grey Toon (Gifford Lind); Burntisland Summer (Scott Murray); The People Who Live in the East (Sheila Hall); Harbour Lights, Stormy Waters (Shanks and Russell); When I Was A Bairn (Bruce Davies); Winter's Sun (MacAlias); The Cockfight (Billy Stewart); Explosion at the Lindsay Colliery (Gifford Lind); A Dyker's Compliments To Her Neebors (Scott Murray); Toon o' Rosyth (Robin Laing); Cheap Day Return (Deryck Foulner); Legends And Tales (Nancy Home); Falkland Fancy (Gifford Lind); Sinclair's Dream (Nancy Nicolson); Too Strong (Freddie Kay); It's Saturday Night at the Adam Smith Hall (Shanks and Russell); Lassodie - Who Would Be a Miner? (Gifford Lind); Incomers (Margot Cook).
Sleeve contains full song lyrics. New songs celebrating Fife. Fife, the beggar's mantle fringed with gold, is rich in so many ways. Rich in natural wealth, in industry, in history, in story, in song, but most of all in people. Many people of Fife have written songs. The songs here are just a small selection from hundreds created and gathered in by the Celebrating Fife in Song project. Some were written through the project's work, others were contributed by songwriters and song collectors.
The new songs from Fife on this CD are poignant and hilarious and rousing and wistful and reflective and much more. They celebrate the life of The Kingdom. The day Buffalo Bill Cody visited Dunfermline's wynds, the dangers faced by men and women in Fife's coalpits, eloquent memories of how life was for fishwives and travellers, Saturday night dances in Kirkcaldy and Falkland, the coming of shipyards to Rosyth, daytrips across the Bridges, returnings home, and the winds of Fife.
The songwriters and singers are Fife's finest, plus a few friends. Some are well known to and adored by fans of traditional Scots song, for others this is their first time on disc.
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