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You've Got a Friend (Instrumental) You've Got a Friend (Instrumental)
Recorded for the funeral of Jim Johnstone, gig buddy and co-founder of Kelso Folk Club, in February 2004. Played on Lowden O10.
8/27/2024 Acoustic Folk
Barbara Allen the Greig-Duncan variations Barbara Allen the Greig-Duncan variations
My playthrough in 2004 of the various tunes for Barbara Allen found in the Greig-Duncan Collection, ending with the Bell Robertson version also found as a separate play on this page
5/20/2023 Acoustic Folk 80 BPM No samples
Lucy Ashton's Song Lucy Ashton's Song
A setting of Sir Walter Scott's short lyric 'Lucy Ashton's Song' from The Bride of Lammermoor, tune and guitar setting written by David Kilpatrick for the 'Whiteadder: Heart of the Lammermuirs' on-line festival 2020.
3/15/2023 Acoustic Folk 120 BPM 6/4 No samples
Dangerous Shoes Dangerous Shoes
I tried to use the iPad with GarageBand as a sort of musical notepad end of 2011, beginning 2012. Today I was trying to get the iPad to work with some other gear (it never has yet) and found this recording. An ad-lib sort of songwriting..
12/31/2012 Acoustic Folk
The Nabob (The Traveller's Return) The Nabob (The Traveller's Return)
Song No 538 Version A from the Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection (Aberdeen), recorded on Dec 31 2012 after finding it by mistake, with a variation headed Auld Lang Syne.
12/31/2012 Acoustic Folk
The Last Rays of Summer - with Armen Grigoryan The Last Rays of Summer - with Armen Grigoryan
Yerevan duduk master Armen Grigoryan has written a solo to float over the top of my guitar solo, The Last Rays of Summer, and has recorded this - much to my amazement, as it entirely transforms the music.
4/26/2011 World Fusion
Hard Times Come Again No More Hard Times Come Again No More
A simple, deep and slow guitar and voice arrangement of this 19th century song of toil and oppression, with some of the most mournfully unconvincing poesy in its lyrics. It's hard to avoid dropping into bathos.
3/22/2011 Acoustic Folk
The Laird o'the Dainty Downbye The Laird o'the Dainty Downbye
This is an old Scots song with many variants, and here I have assembled a story using some of the verses I like best.
11/13/2007 Acoustic Folk
When I Was Young When I Was Young
I wrote this song, with a tune derived from central European traditions, around about 1970 - many years before the wars in the Balkans. I found it in a folder of teenage jottings.
5/9/2007 Acoustic Folk
The Burning of Auchendoon The Burning of Auchendoon
This is a rendering of Ewan MacColl's transcription 'very freely' of the 'fragment of song' he collected called 'Auchendoon', 'Auchindoon' or the 'The Burning of Auchendoon'.
4/24/2007 Acoustic Folk
Scotland the Brave Scotland the Brave
This is 90 seconds of quick instrumental to show how badly Scotland the Brave, which is a pretty lousy tune, can be mangled on guitar
4/10/2007 Acoustic Folk
Crazy Jane Crazy Jane
This song dates from before 1800, and was written by Matthew 'Monk' Lewis, one of the darkest and strangest Gothic writers. The tune is 'Fie! Gar Rub Her O'er Wi' Strae', Scottish traditional.
3/11/2007 Acoustic Folk
Into the Light Into the Light
An original multitracked acoustic guitar instrumental - soaring, flight, freedom, height, space, uplift, elation, awakening, joy, brightness.
2/14/2007 Acoustic Guitar
Lamaq and Lowden guitar comparison Lamaq and Lowden guitar comparison
This is a test file comparing a Lamaq GAL5190 guitar (£99) with a Lowden S35C (£2500)
1/27/2007 Acoustic Folk
The Maid of Norway The Maid of Norway
This is the song normally known as Sir Patrick Spens, but substantially updated and shortened, with a chorus based on one of the Walter Scott verses
1/27/2007 Acoustic Folk
Jock o'Hazeldean Jock o'Hazeldean
This is a recording of one of my favourite Scots Border songs, by Sir Walter Scott, the story of John Scott of Hassendean and his English runaway bride from Westmorland.
1/9/2007 Acoustic Folk
The Border Pole The Border Pole
One per cent of the Scottish Borders population is now Polish, so this wee tune takes a sort of polka and a bit of Border and a bit of Scots to welcome them to a climate marginally not so bad as Poland
1/6/2007 Acoustic Folk
The Broom o' the Cowdenknowes The Broom o' the Cowdenknowes
This is a very much personal interpretation of the 1830 words for this Scots song from R A Smith's Scotish Minstrel, with nylon string guitar accompaniment. An unrehearsed live recording with some variation from the original words.
9/10/2006 Acoustic Folk
The Red Rigs o' Lang Syne The Red Rigs o' Lang Syne
Aimed at the (very few) Scots who look backwards rather than forwards and rather fancy themselves in another Jacobite rebellion!
1/20/2014 Traditional Celtic
A Bridge too Far A Bridge too Far
This is the second half of the original Over the Bridge to Skye recording. It was split in half for the Beyond the Emerant Lea album.
2/7/2008 Acoustic Guitar
