''Heartland'' is the fourth album by

Celtic rock Celtic rock is a genre of folk rock, as well as a form of Celtic fusion which incorporates Celtic music, instrumentation and themes into a rock music context. It has been extremely prolific since the early 1970s and can be seen as a key foundat ...

band

Runrig Runrig were a Scottish Celtic rock band formed on the Isle of Skye in 1973. From its inception, the band's line-up included songwriters Rory Macdonald and Calum Macdonald. The line-up during most of the 1980s and 1990s (the band's most succe ...

. It was released in 1985, and was their first output in which English songs exceeded the number of Gaelic ones.

Track listing

# "O Cho Meallt" (Much Deception) - 3:04 # "This Darkest Winter" - 4:29 # "Lifeline" - 4:09 # "Air a' Chuan" (On the Ocean) - 5:09 # "Dance Called America" - 4:33 # "The Everlasting Gun" - 4:26 # "Skye" - 3:31 # "Cnoc na Fèille" (The Hill at the Marketplace) - 4:40 # "The Wire" - 5:28 # "An Ataireachd Àrd" (The High Swell) - 4:30 # "The Ferry" - 4:12 # "Tuireadh Iain Ruaidh" (Lament for Red John) - 2:42

Personnel

;Runrig *Iain Bayne -

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*Richard Cherns -

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* Malcolm Jones -

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*Calum Macdonald - percussion * Rory Macdonald -

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, bass guitar,

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Donnie Munro Donnie Munro (Scottish Gaelic: Donaidh Rothach /dɔnɪ rɔhəx/) (born 2 August 1953) is a Scottish musician, and former lead singer of the band Runrig. A native speaker of Scots Gaelic, much of his work is in that language. Early life Munro ...

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;Guest artists *Mairi MacInnes - Gaelic vocal *Chris Harley - keyboards, harmonies *Les Lavin - keyboards

External links

Runrig's official website
1985 albums Scottish Gaelic music Runrig albums {{1980s-album-stub