John Mearns - The Best Of

(January 2007) The Auld Meal Mill * Granny's Old Armchair * Barnyards O' Delgaty * Dufftown Fair * Flat Footed Jean * Old Rustic Bridge * When I Was Twenty One * The Wag At The Wall * The Slippery Stane * The Rovin' Ploughboy * Country Geordie * Lassie Wi' The Yellow Coatie * Tillietudlem Castle * Kissing In The Dark * A Lassie Lives By Yonder Burn * The Ship That Never Returned * Guise O' Tough * My Ain Wee Hoose * Bonnie Auchnagatt * Bonnie Bessie Logan * Oor Fairm Toon * Bonnie Udny * The Farm Yard Gate * The Corncraik Amang The Whinny Knowes * The Duchess Tree * Maggie Jardine * A Wee Drappie O't * Braes O' Bonald * The Work O' The Weavers * Hame And Guid Nicht.

Thirty favourite bothy ballads, taken from various recordings of the 1980s, sung by the inimitable John Mearns.

Funny songs, sad songs and hopeful songs, all with a twinkle in the eye, and Graham Geddes' band backing.