This is a guitar instrumental in CGDEAD tuning, played fingerstyle.
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Lullaby for a Sleeping Landscape
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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Inishture
A Scottish fingerstyle guitar instrumental echoing the rythm of a well-known song, but in a minor key and much altered noo.
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Over the Bridge to Skye
The Skye Boat Song meets blues meets jazz and wanders off into the ocean beyond - relaxed nylon string Celtic guitar instrumental.
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The Wrang Road to Copshaw
A silvery, delicate Scottish instrumental played on the tiny Tacoma Papoose alto guitar.
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3:52
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Ice Flow
I watched the ice come down the river by moonlight, breaking up, grouping, starting again on its journey. A short piece in an unusual tuning, GDgcdg' on a 520mm scale 1/2 size classical guitar.
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The Last Farmer
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.
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3:20
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Troubadour Rag
A little sort-of-ragtime piece, capod at 5, on a Troubadour Blondel cittern-guitar fitted with a Pickup the World pickup.
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The Bell Pool
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...
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Mist on the Shore
Impressions of return to a western island, a small boat and waters lapping a mooring shrouded by mist. Guitar instrumental.
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The Grey Mare's Tail
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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The Last Rays of Summer
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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A Bridge too Far
This is the second half of the original Over the Bridge to Skye recording. It was split in half for the Beyond the Emerant Lea album.
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The Traveller's Farewell
A little Irish and a little English baroque influence, played on a Martin Backpacker guitar.
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Ropes of Sand
A flowing, continuous acoustic guitar instrumental with the distinctive sound of 'electric nylon'
