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david kilpatrick
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David Kilpatrick
» label: unsigned
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Music
One of those true stories which turns itself into a song; not very well known, but a great tune and some strong images.
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It is the last day of the Year 2000; outside the Scottish Border hills are deep in snow. I watch the snow falling as I write this piece, and I hope you enjoy it - at any time of year.
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For Burns' Night - the bard's classic song recorded with mellow nylon string guitar and vocals, and an instrumental break.
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This is a recording on a new guitar received today hand made by Russell Rose of Avandel Guitars in Wales
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Bell Robertson's Scottish words to Barbara Allen, from the Greig Duncan Collection, with a conflated tune
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A slow Scottish jig written for the guitar, using harmonics, named for the deep pool in the Tweed where the bells of ruined Kelso Abbey are supposed to lie, ringing as the dark water flows over them - to be heard when danger is near...
A quick song as a Valentine's Day pressie for my wife, Feb 14th 2005. In the general tradition of Scots oldies.
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Traditional Scottish Border tune played on my new Lowden S35C guitar which arrived today April 1st 2005
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A song which appears in most British traditions and is sometimes considered to be Scottish. One of my favourite ballads. With 2nd part played on a Troubadour Lionheart bouzouki.
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The farmers of Scotland wondered, in the grip of winter and the foot and mouth epidemic of 2001, if they were the last generation on the land... a lament for the last farmer, whenever and wherever he (or she) may be.
The tale of Gordon of Auchanachie and his love Jeannie, who is married off by her domineering father to wealthy Lord Saltoun.
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A waltz - or a little quicker - on nylon string jazz guitar. A familiar tumbling cadence, like the Scottish Border waterfall it's named after.
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This is a late Victorian parlour-song by the Rev. Thomas Davidson and Mr T S Smail of Jedburgh, found in the British Students' Song Book circa 1900
This is the Border Scots song tune Dainty Davie, played on nylon string double coursed Spanish laud (flat backed lute) tuned GDgce'g'.
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.
Clouds move across a western sky in the last evening of summer. Sometimes the sky lightens briefly, and for a moment, the setting sun strikes out from the between the clouds, before the light fades again.
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"Weep for the innocent, sing for the hero, pray that your children never have to do the same... For you stand by a place which they once called Ground Zero, all because one God could have more than one name..."
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An original instrumental in DADGAD tuning written for and played on my new Lowden S35C ziricote/cedar guitar
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This song just strikes a chord with audiences everywhere - even if the year needs changing. 'Someone went ahead of me, and turned the signposts round...' - the story of my life!
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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
A traditional English folk song performed in thrash dramatic fashion with the help of a heavy strung guitar tuned down to AEADF#B!
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Impressions of return to a western island, a small boat and waters lapping a mooring shrouded by mist. Guitar instrumental.
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This is a ballad on the life and death of John Armstrong, 'Black Jock', the laird of Gilnockie and notorious thief and reiver, hanged by James V of Scotland in 1530 on the field of Carlinrig high above Hawick town.
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A short celtic guitar piece on a familiar Scottish theme.
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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'.
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