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James Grant (musician)
James Grant (born 8 October 1964) is a Scottish musician, singer, and songwriter. He grew up in Glasgow's Castlemilk district and still resides in the city. Friends Again James Grant's music career began in 1982 as songwriter and guitarist in the new wave band Friends Again, alongside Chris Thomson, later of the Bathers. The group had minor hit singles with "State of Art", "Sunkissed" and "Honey at the Core". They released a self-titled EP in 1983 which reached No. 59 in the UK and then recorded their debut album, ''Trapped & Unwrapped'', in 1984. On 5 June 2015, as part of the BBC Music Day at the broadcaster's Pacific Quay HQ in Glasgow, Grant and Thomson reunited to play two Friends Again songs - "State of Art" and "Honey at the Core" - for a live studio audience. Their performance was broadcast live on the ''Music Through Midnight'' show presented by Billy Sloan, though it was also filmed, perhaps for online content or a future broadcast. Love and Money When Friends Again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castlemilk
Castlemilk ( gd, Caisteal Mheilc) is a district of Glasgow, Scotland. It lies to the far south of the city centre, adjacent to the Croftfoot and Simshill residential areas within the city to the north-west, the town of Rutherglen - neighbourhoods of Spittal to the north-east and Fernhill to the east, Linn Park and its golf course to the west, and the separate village of Carmunnock further south across countryside. The area was developed by the Glasgow Corporation as a peripheral housing scheme in the 1950s to accommodate 34,000 people from inner-city slum areas such as the Gorbals. The new residents were provided with open spaces, a clean environment and indoor toilets and bathrooms. The modern development grew around Castlemilk House, a stately old mansion built around Cassilton Tower, which was started in 1460 on the site of a 13th-century castle, and was demolished in December 1969. The population had dropped from 37,000 in 1971 to roughly half that number in 1991. Howev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Shot The Albatross
''I Shot the Albatross'' is the third solo studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter James Grant, released in the UK by Vertical on 2002. The album is a collection of poetry by various poets set to music written by Grant. Background Grant first had the idea of setting poetry to music after he purchased the anthology ''The Rattle Bag'' in the early 1990s. He was inspired to carry out such a project after he and Donald Shaw collaborated in 1999 on the music for a Scottish film titled ''Transition'', which involved Grant selecting, editing and narrating a selection of 20th century Scottish poetry. Grant then spent a period of researching and reading more poetry before gathering a number of poems and setting them to music. He stated in 2002, "The poems themselves are, of course, the definitive. They have their own rhythm and musicality. This idea is derivative and deeply subjective." In a 2005 interview with ''Rainsound'', Grant said of the ''I Shot the Albatross'' project, "It's ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vertical Records Artists
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Scottish New Wave Musicians
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Scottish Singer-songwriters
Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English Scottish English ( gd, Beurla Albannach) is the set of varieties of the English language spoken in Scotland. The transregional, standardised variety is called Scottish Standard English or Standard Scottish English (SSE). Scottish Standard ... *Scottish national identity, the Scottish identity and common culture *Scottish people, a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland *Scots language, a West Germanic language spoken in lowland Scotland *Symphony No. 3 (Mendelssohn), a symphony by Felix Mendelssohn known as ''the Scottish'' See also *Scotch (other) *Scotland (other) *Scots (other) *Scottian (other) *Schottische * {{disambiguation Scottish people, Language and nationality disambiguation pages ca:Escocès ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Devil's Debt
''The Devil's Debt'' is the fifth studio album by Scottish band Love and Money, released by Vertical in 2012. Background In 2011, Love and Money reunited to perform at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall as part of the Celtic Connections festival, which was followed later in the year with a concert at the SEC Centre. The band's reunion led to the decision to record both new material and some of the songs originally intended for the shelved album ''The Mother's Boy'', which was recorded between 1988's '' Strange Kind of Love'' and 1991's '' Dogs in the Traffic''. ''The Devil's Debt'' was released in 2012 and reached No. 60 on the Scottish Albums Chart. The title track was released as a single, with a music video produced by the thirteensquared production company. The video was shot at Govanhill Baths and Òran Mór in Glasgow. Critical reception On its release, Alan Morrison of '' The Herald'' felt the album contained "some of the best songs James Grant and co have ever written" and prais ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time To Fall (album)
''Time to Fall'' is the second solo (studio) album by Karen Matheson, lead singer of the Scottish band Capercaillie. Track listing # "All the Flowers of the Bough" – 4:31 # "Morning" – 4:40 # "Time to Fall" – 4:08 # "My Whispered Reason" – 2:11 # "Bonnie Jean" - 5:10 # "Goodbye Phoebe" – 3:21 # "An Ataireachd Ard (The Surge of the Sea)" – 5:17 # "Speed of Love" – 5:02 # "Moonchild" – 3:48 # "Moch Di Luain" – 2:53 # "Hoping for You" - 3:02 # "World Stood Still" - 4:17 Personnel * James Grant - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, backing vocals * Bobby Henry - backing vocals, electric guitar * Ewen Vernal - double bass * Quee MacArthur - bass * James Mackintosh - drums, percussion * Paul McGeechan - keyboards * Tim O'Brien - vocals (track 12) * Bobby Paterson - bass * Donald Shaw - Wurlitzer piano, piano, synthesizer, accordion * Neil Yates Neil Yates (born 1970 in Stockport, Cheshire, England) is a British jazz and folk musician. Biography Yates studi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downriver (album)
''Downriver'' is the third solo (studio) album by Karen Matheson, lead singer of the Scottish band Capercaillie ''Tetrao'' is a genus of birds in the grouse subfamily known as capercaillies. They are some of the largest living grouse. Taxonomy The genus ''Tetrao'' was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his .... Track listing # "Chi Mi Bhuam" (I See Afar) – 4:27 # "Cronan Bleoghainn" – 5:01 #*"Cronan Bleoghainn" #*"'S moch an diugh gun d'rinn mi eirigh" # "Gleann Baille Chaoil" – 4:26 # "I Will Not Wear the Willow" – 5:35 # "O Mhairi's Tu Mo Mhairi" - 5:08 #*"O Mhairi's Tu Mo Mhairi (Mary, You Are My Mary)" #*"Riobainean Riomhach (Gorgeous Ribbons)" # "Laoidh Fhearchair Eòghainn" – 3:36 # "O Nach Éisdeadh" – 4:05 #*O Nach Éisdeadh Tu'n Sgeul le Aire (Oh that You Would Listen to the Tale Attentively) # "Singing in the Dark" – 3:25 # "Puirt A Beul" (Mouthmusic) – 3:45 # "Luadh An Toraidh" (Harvest Waulking) – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dreaming Sea
''The Dreaming Sea'' is the debut solo studio album by Karen Matheson, lead singer of the Scottish band Capercaillie. The album was released in 1996 by Survival Records and reissued in North America by Valley Entertainment Valley Entertainment is an American independent record label and music distributor based in New York City, United States. The company was founded in 1994 by Barney Cohen and Jon Birge. In 2001, it acquired the prestigious back catalogue of space, ... in 2000. Track listing # "There's Always Sunday" – 4:09 # "Rithill Aill" – 3:42 # "The Dreaming Sea" – 4:38 # "Mi Le M' Uilinn" – 5:30 # "Early Morning Grey" – 4:27 # "'Ic Iain 'Ic Sheumais" – 5:05 # "One More Chance" – 3:42 # "Fac Thu Na Feidh" – 4:44 # "An Fhideag Airgid" – 4:18 # "At the End of the Night" – 4:20 # "Move On" – 3:19 # "Calbharaigh" – 3:41 # "Evangeline" – 2:26 References Karen Matheson albums 1996 debut albums {{1990s-folk-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capercaillie (band)
Capercaillie is a Scottish folk band, founded in 1984 by Donald Shaw and led by Karen Matheson, and which performs traditional Gaelic and contemporary English songs. The group adapts traditional Gaelic music and traditional lyrics with modern production techniques and instruments such as electric guitar and bass guitar, though rarely synthesizers or drum machines. Capercaillie demonstrate "astonishing musical dexterity" and feature "the peerless voice of co-founder Karen Matheson. Universally recognised as one of the finest Gaelic singers alive today". They have sold over a million albums world-wide, including "three silver and one gold album in the UK". The BBC notes that the band has "achieved enormous global success both as a group and as individual musicians." Origins Originating from Argyll, a region of western Scotland, the band is named after the Western capercaillie, sometimes called a wood grouse, a native Scottish bird. Career Their first album, ''Cascade'', was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Queen
Monica Queen is a singer from Glasgow, Scotland who has collaborated with Belle & Sebastian (e.g., on ''Lazy Line Painter Jane'' from the Lazy Line Painter Jane EP), Chris Coco, James Grant and Jim White, among others. She is listed on the Fire Records (UK) artists page as a contributing artist to their ''Chamber Music'' album, a 36-part tribute to James Joyce's ''Chamber Music''. She works with Johnny Smillie, with whom she co-founded Thrum, who were part of the indie scene in Glasgow in the 1990s. Thrum signed to Fire Records (UK) (home of Teenage Fanclub, Pulp and the Pastels), and released several records between 1990 and 1997. After Thrum broke up she left the music business, but returned after Stuart Murdoch from Belle & Sebastian asked her to sing with them. She returned under her name, working with Thrum's Johnny Smillie and released ''Ten Sorrowful Mysteries'' and ''Return of the Sacred Heart'' as Monica Queen. She sang "Set the Fire to the Third Bar" with Snow Patro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Douglas
Gerald Calvin "Jerry" Douglas (born May 28, 1956) is an American Dobro and lap steel guitar player and record producer. Career In addition to his fourteen solo recordings, Douglas has played on more than 1,600 albums. As a sideman, he has recorded with artists as diverse as Garth Brooks, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Phish, Dolly Parton, Susan Ashton, Paul Simon, Mumford & Sons, Keb' Mo', Ricky Skaggs, Elvis Costello, Tommy Emmanuel, James Taylor and Johnny Mathis, as well as performing on the ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' soundtrack and the follow up "Down From the Mountain" tour with Alison Krauss and Union Station. He has collaborated with various groups including The Whites, New South (band), The Country Gentlemen, Strength in Numbers, and Elvis Costello's "Sugar Canes". From 1996 to 1998, Douglas was a member of The GrooveGrass Boyz. Douglas produced a number of records, including some at Sugar Hill Records. He oversaw albums by Alison Krauss, the Del McCoury Band, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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