Session A9 - Bottlenecks And Armbreakers

(February 2008) 10 tracks: The Real Mackay Wedding / Struy Lodge / Trip To The Market * The Rabbit / Duncan The Gauger / Jig O' Beer * Kirstie's / Garry Porch * Running To Mull / Kent To Kintail * Fionn's * Trip To Austin / The Arm Breaker * Far Frae Hame / Cathal's Magic Fingers * Sporting Paddy / Hamish The Carpenter / Hull's / Road To Errogie * The Sleeping Tune * Paella Grande / No More Cages / The Dirty Bee.

Long-awaited second album from Session A9, featuring top fiddlers and accompanists.

Session A9 have not been the only fiddle supergroup on the Scottish folk scene, but like both Blazin' Fiddles and Fiddlers' Bid, they have evolved their own distinctive approach to the format. That sense of individuality is down to the differing ways in which the bands have approached arranging their material, whether with traditional tunes or contemporary variations on classic themes, as well as to the distinctive personal and regional styles of the players involved.

Gordon Gunn, Charlie MacKerron, Kevin Henderson and Adam Sutherland (fiddles), Tim Edey (guitar, melodeon), Brian Macalpine (piano), Kris Drever (guitar), Ross Martin (guitar), Iain Copeland (percussion), Chimp Robertson (percussion) and Ewan Vernal (double bass).

"The tunes are strong and memorable, the arrangements imaginative, and the playing is on the high level of energy and sophistication we have come to expect from this line-up..." (The List)