The legendary Battlefield Band has just released this album concerned with the troubles of emigrants. A theme that continues to be relevant to our times and our history. The songs are interspersed among a series of tunes played with outstanding skill by the band - fiddles, pipes, keyboard and guitar. Two songs by Robert Burns highlight the album. The Slave’s Lament was his condemnation of that evil, written in support of the abolitionist sentiment of his time. The other, To A Mouse, is probably Burns’ best known poem. It’s place in this collection becomes clear to us as we hear his words set artfully to a tune sung by keyboard player, Alan Reid. Remember the mouse loses his home to a ploughman. Other songs include: The Emigrant (aka Paddy’s Lamentation) and Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (aka The Deportees), The Green and The Blue tells of Irish emigration to Scotland which is often forgotten. A brilliant album with a fresh sound and perspective.

TE 2098 CD $16

This CD spans the 24 years from 1977 to 2001 and includes 19 tracks. Members of the band during this period were such luminaries as fiddlers, Brian McNeill, (co-founder) and John McCusker. Guitarist Ged Foley, Pat Kilbride and keyboardist and co-founder Alan Reid. A great collection of the music played by this great Scottish band over the years. Included is a free CD titled “Temple Records A 25 Year Legacy” a brilliant introduction to Scottish music.

TE 2091 CD $16