An Island Heritage, by Iain McLachlan

An Island Heritage

by Iain McLachlan

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1.	Donald MacLean's Farewell To Oban; Devil In The Kitchen (Siudaibh 'Bhalachaibh); Mrs MacLeod Of Raasay 03:00	info	buy track
2.	Cameron's Got His Wife Again; Siorram Sios Siorram Suas 01:39	info	buy track
3.	Marchioness of Tullibardine 01:52	info	buy track
4.	Mrs MacLeod Of Raasay; High Road To Linton 02:11	info	buy track
5.	Siorram Sios Siorram Suas; Feileadh Beag A B'Fhearr Leam (I Prefer The Kilt) = The Keel Row 01:46	info	buy track
6.	The Dark Island 03:46	info	buy track
7.	Balmoral Castle; South Uist Golf Club 02:03	info	buy track
8.	Maid On The Green; The Wee Tot 02:17	info	buy track
9.	Tha Lionn Daor (The Ale Is Dear); Bodachan A Mhill Anna (The Old Man Who Rawaged Anna) = High Road To Linton 01:40	info	buy track
10.	Calum Crubach As A Ghleann (Crooked Calum Of The Glen) = Miss Drummond Of Perth; Tail Toddle 02:38	info	buy track
11.	Feileadh Beag A B'ghearr Leam (I Preferr The Kilt) = The Keel Row; Calum's Untitled Reel 01:35	info	buy track
12.	The Conundrom 01:51	info	buy track
13.	Highland Harry 03:17	info	buy track
14.	Jig Of Slurs; Roaring Jelly 02:17	info	buy track
15.	Devil In The Kitchen = Siudaibh 'Bhalachaibh (Come Along Lads); Sandy Duff 01:47	info	buy track
16.	The Navvy On The Line; Boys Of Blue Hill 02:45	info	buy track
17.	Cuttie'a Wedding; Mo Chuachag Laghach Thu (My Gentle Maiden) 02:26	lyrics	buy track
Iain McLachlan - accordion; Calum Iain MacCorquodale - fiddle; Calum Campbell - goose.
18.	The Kissing Reel; Sobhal Iain 'Ic Uisdean (Iain McHugh's Barn); Fear A' Phige (The Man With The Whisky Jar) 01:52	info	buy track
19.	The Hen's March; Jig Of Slurs 02:17	info	buy track
20.	The Piper Of Drummond; The Sheepwife 01:59	info	buy track

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Iain McLachlan is best known as an accordionist and composer of The Dark Island but on this recording he also plays fiddle and melodeon, and is joined by Calum Iain MacCorquodale of Bayhead, North Uist on accordion and fiddle and by Calum Campbell of Balivanich on goose and jaws harp. The album opens with a trio set of march, strathspey and reel starting with Donald MacLean's Farewell to Oban. Other tracks include fiddle solo Cameron's Got his Wife Again, a melodeon solo Mrs MacLeod of Raasay and a superb set of pipe reels on accordion and goose The Piper of Drummond.

Liner notes by Aonghas Grant:
IAIN McLACHLAN's music comes as fresh as the sea breezes wafting over the Uist machair - Highland and Gaelic as his island heritage. I recall two wonderful music sessions with Iain at a ceilidh and dance in Daliburgh in South Uist back in 1976 and again at one of the famous Kinross Festivals where he played about a dozen pipe marches off the cuff with the unbroken link up that comes of playing at a thousand dances.

Iain, from Benbecula, is best known as an accordionist, but on this recording he also plays fiddle and melodeon, and is joined by Calum Iain MacCorquodale of Bayhead, North Uist on accordion and fiddle and by Calum Campbell of Balivanich on goose and jaws harp. His Highland Harry using the trill grace note which was a favourite ornament with the old Highland fiddlers, and the two pipe reels Piper of Drummond and The Sheepwife on accordion with Calum on the goose, are truly inspiring.

Math gu dearbh,
Aonghhas Grant, Lochaber, 1997.

IAIN McLACHLAN, Traditional Musician. Born: 21 October, 1927, in Hacklett, Benbecula. Died: 21 February 1995 in Creagorry, Benbecula, aged 67.

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released July 11, 1997

The recordings were made in Bayhead, North Uist during a week in April 1979 at the MacCorquodale household in Paiblesgarry, North Uist and at the McLachlan household in Creagorry, Benbecula except the pieces on melodeon which were recorded at the TMSA's Kinross Traditional Music Festival in September 1976 where Iain was a guest. Recordings were with a stereo pair of Sony microphones direct to quarter inch tape at 15 ips using a Revox A77 recorder. Edited at Springthyme in Fife, March 1980. Additional post production at GRF, Glasgow, November 1980. The album was cut as a vinyl lp for broadcast use in 1983 but was never issued in that format. Issued on cassette in 1987. Remastered for cd at Thane Multimedia, Cupar and issued in cd format in 1997. Recording and production by Peter Shepheard.

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