'Vintage Gaughan' concert from 1982 now available for the 1st time! A definitive release featuring some of his best.

Dick Gaughan has been at the cutting edge of Scottish folk music since 1970 - a guitarist, singer, songwriter, actor, musical director, arranger, record producer, and engineer. In December, 2009, Dick was honored by being included in the Scottish Trad Music Hall of Fame and within a year he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC 2's ceremony in London.

His album 'Handful of Earth' on Topic Records was chosen by a critics' poll in fRoots as the 'Best Album of the 1980's'. As well as a successful solo career, Dick was an early member of The Boys of The Lough, the legendary Five Hand Reel and the founder member of the short-lived but quite extraordinary Clan Alba.

In October, 2016, an MRI scan confirmed Dick had suffered a stroke several months previously, from which he is now gradually recovering but which has prevented him from touring. Having said that, he bravely joined the cast of the 'Far, Far From Ypres' stage presentation in several concerts, plus an extensive tour in 2018.

In 2019 Brian O'Donovan, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a broadcaster and journalist, sent to Scotland tapes of a recording he had made of Dick in a concert in The Old Cambridge Baptist Church, near the Harvard University Campus. Ian McCalman and Ian Green heard the tapes and agreed this was 'Vintage Gaughan' and Dick himself approved wholeheartedly. It was a concert shared with the late great Johnny Cunningham and the recording included a version of them together in The Freedom Come All Ye, quite unique.

Features some of Dick's all-time greats : Erin Go Bragh, Now Westlin Winds, Song For Ireland, Your Daughters and Your Sons, The Worker's Song and a three-reel instrumental plus more, all from these tapes. Previously unrecorded by Dick are Leemings and a second instrumental, Sliabh na mBan, from the Milngavie concerts and Connolly Was There from the Greentrax archive. Plus three 'Bonus' tracks were added. A truly remarkable and definitive collection!

Track Listing

• Erin Go Bragh
• Now Westlin Winds
• Song For Ireland
• Your Daughters and Your Sons
• Glenlogie
• On The Road
• Reels, The Goosebery Bush, The Chicago Reel, Jennys Welcome to Charlie
• The World Turned Upside Down
• The Workers Song
• The Freedom Come All Ye
• Lemmings
• Sliabh na mBan
• Connolly Was There

Additional Details

Label: Greentrax

Genre: Folk

Language: English

Run Time: 60:23 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 10/11/19

UPC: 5018081040629