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A new album from one of the foremost and highly regarded folksingers in the United Kingdom. Dick is a full-time musician and commits himself to a heavy touring schedule both at home and abroad. Tracks: Whatever Happened / The Devil And Pastor Jack / Different Drum / We Got The Rock ’n’ Roll / Lucky For Some / The Hunter Dunne / Come Gie’s A Song / Dancing Eagles / Bleacher Lass o’ Kelvinhaugh / Anna Mae.
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Another original album from one of the foremost and highly regarded folksingers of our time - Dick Gaughan was recently voted one of the Top 10 Folk Voices Of The 20th Century by listeners of BBC Radio 2's Mike Harding Show.
Dick is acknowledged as one of Scotland's most outstanding musicians. His vocal prowess, instrumental virtuosity and intelligence as a composer are legendary.
This album also features Mary MacMaster (clarsach, vocals), Brian McNeill (fiddle, cellofiddle), Stephen Quigg (vocals) and Ian McCalman (vocals).
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
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Dick Gaughan CDs are rare, in both senses of the word - infrequent, and of very high quality. "Lucky For Some", his first studio album since "Outlaws and Dreamers" in 2001, is without doubt his best yet, despite strong competition from many of his earlier records.
The first difference you will notice is that eight out of the ten tracks are self-written; in addition to these there is a beautifully tender rendition of the traditional "Bleacher Lassie o' Kelvinhaugh" and a powerful, snarling version of Jim Page's "Anna Mae". (But this is far from the only track to feature the glorious Gaughan snarl!)
"Powerful" is a word which is probably going to appear quite often in this review, because it sums up not only Gaughan's style of performance but also this particular CD. His song-writing has gone from strength to strength over the years, and the examples on this CD are glorious. From the title track, "Lucky for Some", and its partner "We Got the Rock 'n' Roll" - both incisively dissecting the rip-offs of the commercial music business - to the delicious and complex (but deceptively simple on first hearing) guitar instrumental "Dancing with Eagles", every track is ultra-high quality.
Anyone who has attended a live performance will know Gaughan's strong sense of humour, which regularly appears between songs but very rarely in them. This is, however, newly and intriguingly apparent in both the above-mentioned "We Got the Rock 'n' Roll" and "The Devil and Pastor Jack". This particular song also includes, nested within its contempt for the bigotry of its subject, an amazing thread of compassion for what must have been a not very happy man. But, although there isn't space to analyse them all in detail, every track on the CD is as fully-fleshed and well-rounded as this.
The love-it-or-hate-it, but in my view magnificent, "Come Gie's a Sang" compares and contrasts song as art with song from the heart; originally part of "Timewaves", Gaughan's orchestral commission for Celtic Connections 2004, it is presented with lush orchestration and chorus, and achieves a mind-blowingly powerful result. The chilling "The Hunter Dunne" covers, in three verses, ostensibly three ways (but, in effect, every way) in which money can corrupt the heart, morals and conscience, and create inhumanity in what was once a human being.
The decay of heart, morals and conscience is also central to "Whatever Happened?", a scathing look at those who were activists in the trendy 1960s, but who have over the decades succumbed to the lures of money, political power or just sheer laziness. This track's partner-piece, "Different Drum", is, by contrast, powerfully and hypnotically optimistic: "Look out world, here we come / Walking to the rhythm of a different drum". The message is, it's not too late - we can still do something if we try.
You want easy listening? Then don't buy this CD. You want your ideas challenged and tested? Then go for it - you won't regret it!
The first difference you will notice is that eight out of the ten tracks are self-written; in addition to these there is a beautifully tender rendition of the traditional "Bleacher Lassie o' Kelvinhaugh" and a powerful, snarling version of Jim Page's "Anna Mae". (But this is far from the only track to feature the glorious Gaughan snarl!)
"Powerful" is a word which is probably going to appear quite often in this review, because it sums up not only Gaughan's style of performance but also this particular CD. His song-writing has gone from strength to strength over the years, and the examples on this CD are glorious. From the title track, "Lucky for Some", and its partner "We Got the Rock 'n' Roll" - both incisively dissecting the rip-offs of the commercial music business - to the delicious and complex (but deceptively simple on first hearing) guitar instrumental "Dancing with Eagles", every track is ultra-high quality.
Anyone who has attended a live performance will know Gaughan's strong sense of humour, which regularly appears between songs but very rarely in them. This is, however, newly and intriguingly apparent in both the above-mentioned "We Got the Rock 'n' Roll" and "The Devil and Pastor Jack". This particular song also includes, nested within its contempt for the bigotry of its subject, an amazing thread of compassion for what must have been a not very happy man. But, although there isn't space to analyse them all in detail, every track on the CD is as fully-fleshed and well-rounded as this.
The love-it-or-hate-it, but in my view magnificent, "Come Gie's a Sang" compares and contrasts song as art with song from the heart; originally part of "Timewaves", Gaughan's orchestral commission for Celtic Connections 2004, it is presented with lush orchestration and chorus, and achieves a mind-blowingly powerful result. The chilling "The Hunter Dunne" covers, in three verses, ostensibly three ways (but, in effect, every way) in which money can corrupt the heart, morals and conscience, and create inhumanity in what was once a human being.
The decay of heart, morals and conscience is also central to "Whatever Happened?", a scathing look at those who were activists in the trendy 1960s, but who have over the decades succumbed to the lures of money, political power or just sheer laziness. This track's partner-piece, "Different Drum", is, by contrast, powerfully and hypnotically optimistic: "Look out world, here we come / Walking to the rhythm of a different drum". The message is, it's not too late - we can still do something if we try.
You want easy listening? Then don't buy this CD. You want your ideas challenged and tested? Then go for it - you won't regret it!
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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4 July 2006
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Dick Gaughan CDs are rare, in both senses of the word - infrequent, and of very high quality. "Lucky For Some", his first studio album since 2001, is without doubt his best yet.
The first difference you will notice is that eight out of the ten tracks are self-written; in addition to these there is a beautifully tender rendition of the traditional "Bleacher Lassie o' Kelvinhaugh" and a powerful, snarling version of Jim Page's "Anna Mae".
"Powerful" is a word which sums up not only Gaughan's style of performance but also this particular CD. From the title track, "Lucky for Some", and its partner "We Got the Rock 'n' Roll" - both incisively dissecting the rip-offs of the commercial music business - to the delicious and complex guitar instrumental "Dancing with Eagles", every track is ultra-high quality.
The magnificent "Come Gie's a Sang" compares and contrasts song as art with song from the heart. The chilling "The Hunter Dunne" analyses the ways in which money can corrupt the heart, morals and conscience, and create inhumanity in what was once a human being, while "The Devil and Pastor Jack" includes, nested within its contempt for the bigotry of its subject, an thread of compassion for what must have been a not very happy man.
The decay of heart, morals and conscience is also central to "Whatever Happened?", a scathing look at those who were activists in the trendy 1960s, but who have since succumbed to the lures of money, political power or just sheer laziness. This track's partner-piece, "Different Drum", is, by contrast, powerfully and hypnotically optimistic. The message is, it's not too late - we can still do something if we try.
You want easy listening? Then don't buy this CD. You want your ideas challenged and tested? Then go for it - you won't regret it!
The first difference you will notice is that eight out of the ten tracks are self-written; in addition to these there is a beautifully tender rendition of the traditional "Bleacher Lassie o' Kelvinhaugh" and a powerful, snarling version of Jim Page's "Anna Mae".
"Powerful" is a word which sums up not only Gaughan's style of performance but also this particular CD. From the title track, "Lucky for Some", and its partner "We Got the Rock 'n' Roll" - both incisively dissecting the rip-offs of the commercial music business - to the delicious and complex guitar instrumental "Dancing with Eagles", every track is ultra-high quality.
The magnificent "Come Gie's a Sang" compares and contrasts song as art with song from the heart. The chilling "The Hunter Dunne" analyses the ways in which money can corrupt the heart, morals and conscience, and create inhumanity in what was once a human being, while "The Devil and Pastor Jack" includes, nested within its contempt for the bigotry of its subject, an thread of compassion for what must have been a not very happy man.
The decay of heart, morals and conscience is also central to "Whatever Happened?", a scathing look at those who were activists in the trendy 1960s, but who have since succumbed to the lures of money, political power or just sheer laziness. This track's partner-piece, "Different Drum", is, by contrast, powerfully and hypnotically optimistic. The message is, it's not too late - we can still do something if we try.
You want easy listening? Then don't buy this CD. You want your ideas challenged and tested? Then go for it - you won't regret it!
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