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| Silver Sands - Stephen Quigg |
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| Silver Sands is the latest album from Ayrshire-based Stephen Quigg, the third McCalman. Once again Stephen ably demonstrates why a group with the prestige of the McCalmans was keen to have him on board.
Here, however, he's on his own, and nane the waur o that. Far from it, as this collection starts with a swing, which it never loses right up to the last note, which is the bonus track "The 830", named after our most scenic and most dangerous road, recorded in the Skye Gathering Hall, Portree - not far from some other dangerous roads.
In between, we meet "Scots Abroad", "Strong Women Who Rule Us All With Their Tears", by Brian McNeill; "Some Hae Meat" - not simply the Selkirk Grace, but a segue from that into a powerful condemnation of world hunger. The risks of mining are recalled in "Blantyre Explosion", and we end (apart from the bonus track) with "Auld Lang Syne", arguably the world's best-known song, after "Happy Birthday To You".
Stephen does it again, with an album that will please every Scot (and a fair number of southern residents) as he's a big enough man to acknowledge they have some good folk songs too! |
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