Eric Linklater
Eric Linklater
Scottish
Attic Records
Released: 7th January 2013
Catalogue Number: ATCD082
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Running Time: 46 mins.
You can listen to short samples from some of the tracks on this album using the player below.
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Opens with a lively set of American folk tunes and doesn't let up from there, his base on Orkney allows the influences from Scotland/Shetland, Ireland, Norway & the USA all creep into his repertoire and he sounds at home in all of them.
Good supporting cast includes the Wrigley Sisters.
Have a good listen.
1) Hugh's American Reel
2) M,H&R: The Standing Stones / Fiddler's Cramp / Pottinger's Reel
3) Old Norwegian Polka
4) Sean McGuire Reels
5) Norsk Rheinlander
6) Orkney Isles Hornpipe / Princess Beatrice / Toe Reid
7) Wes & Maggie's Ceilidh Croft / The Rocket Range / Jamie's Reel
8) Jigs: Jig For Jane / Newark Bay
9) The Cavan Reel / Galway Rambler
10) Loce o' Da Isles
11) Cotton Patch Rag
12) Happy Tom / Donald Rodley's Compliments to Oliver Waugh / Alice Tait's Reel
13) The Fiddle Cushion / The Laird o' Drumblair
14) Mermaid's Chair
Opens with a lively set of American folk tunes and doesn't let up from there, his base on Orkney allows the influences from Scotland/Shetland, Ireland, Norway & the USA all creep into his repertoire and he sounds at home in all of them.
Good supporting cast includes the Wrigley Sisters.
Have a good listen.
Lineup
Eric Linklater - Fiddle
Ryan Couper - Guitar
Hazel Wrigley - Piano & Guitar
Stewart Shearer - Guitar, Mandolin & Banjo
Jennifer Wrigley - Fiddle
David Delday - Piano
Owen Tierney - Mandolin