Pub Songs Podcast #171: Famous Scottish Songs

Enjoy Famous Scottish songs for St. Andrew's Day or Burns Day, or any day of the week. You'll hear my entire album Scottish Songs of Drinking & Rebellion, plus a BONUS song that was just released.

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WHO'S PLAYING IN THE PUB TODAY?

Today, we're playing my CD Scottish Songs of Drinking & Rebellion from start to finish.

0:54 Come Ye By Atholl
3:18 MacPherson's Farewell
6:44 Mingulay Boat Song
11:21 I'm a Rover, Seldom Sober
13:39 Ye Jacobites By Name
16:19 Scots Wha Hae
19:20 Loch Tay Boat Song
23:38 Barnyards of Delgaty
25:51 Jock Stuart
28:43 Ye Canna Shove Yer Granny
30:29 A Man's A Man For A' That
33:17 Green Grow the Rashes
37:34 Mari Mac
39:37 There Are No Pubs in Kirkintilloch
41:46 Skye Boat Song
44:36 Mairi's Wedding
46:39 Flower of Scotland
52:37 Loch Lomond

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PUB TALK

Welcome to the Pub Songs Podcast. My name is Marc Gunn. I'm a Celtic Geek musician and podcaster. Once again, I'm sharing one of my albums from start to finish.

St Andrew's is on November 30th this year. In addition to celebrating the feast of St. Andrew, it is also Scotland's official national holiday. So I'm gonna share my album Scottish Songs of Drinking & Rebellion, from start to finish in this show.

This album was released on November 30, 2013, five years ago. It was fully produced, mixed and mastered by me.

Nathan Deese is a Celtic musician from North Carolina. He sang background vocals on the album. He also played bass, guitar, mandolin, whistle and flute on “Come Ye By Athrol”, Green Grow the Rashes”, “Ye Jacobites By Name”, and “Flower of Scotland”.

Daniel I Briggs sang background vocals as well and played bass, guitar, mandolin, octave mandolin and all other songs.

Jody Richardson added violin on “Loch Tay Boat Song”

Jon Richardson played concertina on “MacPherson's Farewell”.

Most of the tracks were recorded in January 2011. I took my family on a trip up to middle-of-no-where Kentucky to record, while Gwen and baby Kenzie visited a friend in Lexington. I recorded this album, Don't Go Drinking With Hobbits, and St Patrick's Day all at the same time.

However, there were two tracks I re-recorded parts later. One was “Mingulay Boat Song”. The other was “Flower of Scotland”. And when you listen to those, notice the background vocals because I used the wrong settings on my USB preamp. So they came off more compressed sounding. And I LOVED the sound. They kinda make the songs.

I found it humorous that in “Ye Canna Shove Yer Granny” that I repeated a verse accidentally. And I didn't notice it while I was editing.

The front Photo on the album was taken by Jan Czenkusch on our Celtic Invasion of Scotland in 2013. She also took the pictures inside the CD. I took the ones on the back. And graphic design was by James McDaniel II.

Now most of these songs are traditional except for “Flower of Scotland” which is by Roy Williamson. “Mingulay Boat Song” which is by Sir Hugh S. Roberton. “Mari's Wedding” is by John Roderick Bannerman. And “Skye Boat Song” is by Sir Harold Boulton.' And of course Robert Burns wrote “MacPherson's”, “Jacobites”, “Scots Wha Hae”, “A Man's A Man” and “Green Grow the Rashes”.

I love this album. These are my absolute favorite Scottish, all except I couldn't get a good recording of “Loch Lomond”. And some of these recordings, thanks to Nathan and Daniel, made this a powerhouse album in my opinion.

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