Bar Edinburgh - Classic and New Scottish Flavours

(July 2008) 30 tracks

This collection pulls together some of the biggest names on the Scottish folk scene onto one great value Double CD.

The perfect soundtrack to your own céilidh.

CD1 contains spirited ballads and traditional gems from some of the biggest names in Scottish traditional music, such as The Poozies and Croft No Five, plus an exclusive from Edinburgh singer-songwriter Ewan MacPherson.

CD2 contains rousing party anthems from bands including cult heroes Shooglenifty, Salsa Celtica and the Peatbog Faeries.

CD1 : Travelling In Winter (Ewan Macpherson) * Selkie (Fine Friday) * Maggie (Giveway) * Nine Stone Rig (Back Of The Moon) * Fause Knicht On The Road (Jock Tamson's Bairns) * Hughie The Graham (Malinky) * The Cruel Mother (Emily Smith) * Waist Deep In The Big Muddy (Dick Gaughan) * The Emigrant's Farewell (Tony McManus) * Met Her On The Shap (Rankin File) * Throw The Ball (The Poozies) * Skin Deep (Shoormal) * The West Shores Of Quarff (Filska) * Arlene's Waltz (Cantychiels) * Rocks Of Marasheen (Margaret Bennett).

CD2 : Buain A'Choirce (Reaping Song) (Martyn Bennett) * Crooked Jack (Bodega) * Maggie West's (Anna Massie) * King Of Laois (Bag O' Cats) * Seton's Lassie (Ceolbeg) * Macedonian Woman's Rant (Peatbog Faeries) * A Whiskey Kiss (Shooglenifty) * Gale Warning (Macumba) * Dubh - Gipsy Hornpipe / The Black Hill / Jackson's (Tartan Amoebas) * Double Pipe Set (Deaf Shepherd) * Yo Mi Voy / Maggie's Pancakes (Salsa Celtica) * Legless (Croft No Five) * Bulgarian Red (Finlay MacDonald Band) * Moran And The Bodhran (Stuart Cassells) * Donald's Little Cascade (Jack Evans).

"...Devised as a pub soundtrack to give visitors to this country a taster of contemporary Scottish folk and traditional music. It's a broad church - Malinky, Deaf Shepherd and Emily Smith's ancient ballads, veteran Dick Gaughan's Americana, song arrangements by Back Of The Moon, the Bairns, the Poozies and others, acid croft and dance grooves from Shooglenifty and Peatbog Faeries, and Latin crossover from Salsa Celtica." (Scotland On Sunday)