''Room Enough For All'' is the thirty-first album by

Battlefield Band Battlefield Band were a Scottish traditional music group. Founded in Glasgow in 1969, they have released over 30 albums and undergone many changes of lineup. As of 2010, none of the original founders remain in the band. The band is noted for t ...

and their twenty-third studio album, released on the Temple Records label by mid-March 2013 in the USA & Canada in CD (to coincide with the band's tour) and in early April 2013 worldwide in CD & Digital Download formats.

Overview

''Room Enough For All'' is Battlefield Band's second studio album to be recorded by the band's new line-up since the last remaining founding member Alan Reid's definitive departure at the end of 2010.

Critical reception

''Room Enough For All'' was awarded "Album of the Year" at the 2013 MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards.

Track listing

#"Bagpipe Music" 3:33 #"Major George Morrison DSO..." 4:31 #"Farewell To Indiana" 3:53 #"The Garron Trotting..." 4:53 #"Nic Coiseam" 4:08 #"The Hairy Angler Fish..." 3:49 #"Ceann Loch an Duin..." 4:22 #"Duanag an t-Seòladair" 4:05 #"The Eight Men of Moidart..." 3:06 #"In Contempt" 3:37 #"Tynes In Overtime!" 3:24

Personnel

Battlefield Band

*Sean O'Donnell - vocals &

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

Alasdair White Alasdair White is a Scottish folk musician born in 1983 on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. In 2001, when he was only 18 years old, he joined Battlefield Band as a virtuoso fiddle player. Origins White is a Scottish Gaelic speake ...

- fiddle,

whistle A whistle is an instrument which produces sound from a stream of gas, most commonly air. It may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means. Whistles vary in size from a small slide whistle or nose flute type to a larg ...

tenor guitar The tenor guitar or four-string guitar is a slightly smaller, four-string relative of the steel-string acoustic guitar or electric guitar. The instrument was initially developed in its acoustic form by Gibson and C.F. Martin so that players of ...

* Ewen Henderson - fiddle, vocals

Highland bagpipes The Great Highland bagpipe ( gd, a' phìob mhòr "the great pipe") is a type of bagpipe native to Scotland, and the Scottish analogue to the Great Irish Warpipes. It has acquired widespread recognition through its usage in the British milita ...

, small pipes,

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

Mike Katz Michael Katz (born November 14, 1944) is a former American IFBB professional bodybuilder and former professional football player with the New York Jets, most famous for his appearance with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1977 bodybuilding docum ...

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, small pipes,

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

Guests

*Mike Whellans - Moothie / Harmonica

References

External links

''Room Enough For All'' album page from the band's website
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