Monday 19 December 2011

Saut-Herrin': A Barrel o' Saut-Herrin (c.1989)








Saut-Herrin': A Barrel o' Saut-Herrin (c.1989)

01 Royal Scot Polka/Laddie Wi the Plaidie/Petronella
02 O Gin I Were a Baron's Heir
03 Margaret's Waltz/Tombigbee Waltz
04 The Broch Salmon Bothys
05 Coulters Candy
06 Si Beag Si Mhor
07 Chairlie Oh Chairlie
08 Mrs Mcleod's Reel/Kate Dalrymple/Duke of Perth/Kemnay House
09 Yellow On the Broom
10 Come to the Bower/Banks o' the Roses/Wha Saw the 42nd
11 Fareweel tae Tarwathie
12 Earl of Mansfield's March/Loch Maree Island/Aitken Drum
13 Dark Island
14 Rattlin' Roarin' Willie

A five-piece folk group from the Moray Coast (Burghead and Lossiemouth to be precise) who performed mainly for charity. Sandra Borthwick (guitar, vocals), George Pratt (banjo, mouth organ), Jim Eckford (mouth organ), Iain White (Northumbrian pipes, whistle, mandolin) and Dan Ralph (fiddle, vocals) recorded one album that I know about, the self-published "A Barrel o' Saut Herrin'" on cassette (n.d.)

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2 comments:

  1. I'd never heard of this group before but I like them a lot, they have a really good sound and give their songs a nice twist. I like their name, although I doubt it's still possible to buy salt herring! Thanks for posting this.

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  2. I used to collect 78rpm records, and I had a few by monologuist Willie McCulloch. One of them included this gem:

    "Some men thirst after money, and some men thirst after power, but there's one thing that all men thirst after, an' that's saut-herrin'!"

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