James F Dickie: The Dickie Style (1980)

James F Dickie: The Dickie Style (1980)

Jim Dickie was born in New Deer, Aberdeenshire in 1886. His father was a concertina player, and his brother John was a champion penny whistle player. By the age of seventeen he had started winning fiddle contestsAs a fiddler his biggest influences were James Scott Skinner, whom he knew, and Bill Duguid of Aberdeen. His style is very much in the Skinner camp, and is very much of its time, not always easily accessible to modern ears, but there's no doubt he was a very accomplished player. His friend J Murdoch Henderson wrote of him, "A player of great taste and polish. In the rendering of slow strathspeys and E flat airs in general his style is inimitable." This recording consists of his own home recordings from the early 1950s, complemented by tracks from his son-in-law James Duncan, and was issued on cassette in 1980.

James F Dickie:

01 Our Highland Queen

02 Smith's a Gallant Fireman

03 North Shore Hornpipe

04 Stirling Castle/Rachel Rae

05 Tulchan Lodge/Gladstone Reel/Glenlivet/The Hurricane

06 Shakins o' the Pocky/Farewell to Gartly/O'er the Hill/Newcastle Hornpipe

07 Master Francis Sitwell/Glories of the Star

08 Princess Beatrice

09 Finlay's Hornpipe

10 Castles In the Air

James Duncan:

11 Laird o' Bernerside/Earl Grey/JF Dickie's Reel

12 Braes o'Auchentyre/Mirth & Melody/Fit & Fervour

13 JF Dickie's Delight/The Baker

14 Peterhead Polka

15 Bonnie Lass of Headlake/Tarland Memories

16 Bob Steele/The Spey In Spate

17 Mar Castle/The Hawk

18 JO Forbes of Corse

19 Haslam's Hornpipe

20 Riches Denied

Unavailable

Other albums featuring J F Dickie:

James F Dickie's Delights (1976)