''Under One Sky'' is an hour-long vocal and instrumental suite composed by Scottish

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multi-instrumentalist

John McCusker John McCusker (born 15 May 1973) is a Scottish folk musician, record producer, and composer. An accomplished fiddle player, he had a long association as a member of the Battlefield Band beginning in the 1990s and was later a band member and p ...

. A studio album was released in February 2009, through Navigator Records. According to a poster advertising the ''Under One Sky'' tour: "This large scale composition explores and interweaves the many different styles, genres and traditions at work in today's dynamic UK folk scene" John McCusker states: "When I started putting ''Under One Sky'' together the idea was to do two gigs, one at

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and the other at

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. It was such a magical experience though, that after the second gig I knew I really wanted to work with these amazing folks again. Every musician strives to keep doing exciting things, musically, and to play with great people to keep them inspired. Getting to collaborate with these musicians has been the highlight of my musical career so far, and we're all totally chuffed to be taking it on tour."

Track listing

#"Under One Sky" - 9:50 #*"Under One Sky" #*"Tom Rose" #*"Eigg Bound" #*"With Her Tocher What a Lassie" (trad.) #"Will I See Thee More/Hush a Bye" (McCusker/Tams) - 12:00 #"'S Tusa Thilleas" - 15:35 #*"'S Tusa Thilleas"(McCusker/Fowlis) #*"Mornin Lion" #*"Banais Bhaile" (Fowlis/Carr) #*"Cher's Trip to Scotland" #*"Touche Pas" (McCusker/Carr) #"Long Time Past/Lavender Hill" - 8:01 (McCusker/Woomble) #"Jigs, Strathspey & Reel" - 9:01 #*"First Coast" #*"Theatre" (Cutting) #*"Nikki's Leap" (Carr) #*"The Witchery" #*"Billy's Reel" #"All Has Gone" - 4:55 (Coxon) #"Jack Seward's/Boys of the Puddle" - 4:00

Personnel

Andy Cutting Andy Cutting (born 18 March 1969) is an English folk musician and composer. He plays melodeon and is best known for writing and performing traditional English folk and his own original compositions which combine English and French traditions w ...

- diatonic accordion *

Ian Carr Ian Carr (21 April 1933 – 25 February 2009) was a Scottish jazz musician, composer, writer, and educator. Carr performed and recorded with the Rendell-Carr quintet and jazz-fusion band Nucleus, and was an associate professor at the Guildhall ...

- guitar *Emma Reid - fiddle *Iain MacDonald - bagpipes, whistles, flutes *

Ewen Vernal Ewen Vernal (born 27 February 1964) is a Scottish musician. Born in Glasgow to a musical family, Vernal began taking piano lessons at 8 years old — inspired by a Beatles-singing mother and a choir-leading, saxophone-playing father. Singing ...

- bass *Roy Dodds - percussion *

James Mackintosh Sir James Mackintosh FRS FRSE (24 October 1765 – 30 May 1832) was a Scottish jurist, Whig politician and Whig historian. His studies and sympathies embraced many interests. He was trained as a doctor and barrister, and worked also as a jo ...

- drums *

Roddy Woomble Roddy Woomble (born 13 August 1976) is a Scottish singer, songwriter and writer. He is the lead vocalist of indie rock band Idlewild, with whom he has recorded nine studio albums. Celebrated for his poetic lyrics and warm, baritone voice, In 2 ...

- vocals ("Long Time Past/Lavender Hill") *

Graham Coxon Graham Leslie Coxon (born 12 March 1969) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and painter who came to prominence as a founding member of the rock band Blur. As the group's lead guitarist and secondary vocalist, Cox ...

- vocals ("All Has Gone") *

John Tams John Tams (born 16 February 1949) is an English actor, singer, songwriter, composer and musician born in Holbrook, Derbyshire, the son of a publican. He first worked as a reporter for the '' Ripley & Heanor News'' later working for BBC Radio De ...

- vocals ("Will I See Thee More/Hush A Bye") *

Jim Causley Jim Causley is an English Folk music, folk singer, songwriter, and musician from Devon who specializes in the Folk Music of England, traditional songs and music of the West Country. Journalist Colin Irwin (journalist), Colin Irwin has called him ...

- vocals ("Will I See Thee More/Hush A Bye") *

Julie Fowlis Julie Fowlis (born 20 June 1978) is a Scottish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist who sings primarily in Scottish Gaelic. Early life Fowlis grew up on North Uist, an island in the Outer Hebrides, in a Gaelic-speaking community. Her moth ...

- vocals ("'S Tusa Thilleas") *

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- harmony vocals ("Long Time Past")

References

{{Authority control John McCusker albums 2009 albums