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Donald MacDonald

from The Ettrick Shepherd 1980 by McCalmans

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Fast! I definitely had all my teeth when I sang the verses here. We never sung this song at gigs, thank goodness, and so it really needed to be rehearsed a lot to get on top of the quick text.
I think there are two banjos, Hamish plays 4 string and I play 5 string and, surprisingly, it sounds quite good. There's a mandolin and a guitar as well. The alternative title is "Brogues and Brochin' and A'". There are quite a few tracks on this album which have alternative titles but I took my information from a very old book of 700 pages, about the life and works of the very old James Hogg and so, the very old "Defence" rests.
The picture is page 2 of the 4 page album.

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from The Ettrick Shepherd 1980, released May 19, 2021
5-string banjo, 4-string banjo, mandolin and guitar. players as above.

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Formed 1964, Edinburgh, studying Architecture. Ian McCalman, Derek Moffat, Hamish Bayne, for 18years.Then McCalman, Moffat, Nick Keir for 27yrs. Then McCalman, Keir, Stephen Quigg for 9yrs. 27 albums, multiple TV series. World tours. "Best live act" award, "Hall of Fame", "Hamish Henderson award", recorded 400 songs, retired 2010. folk singers, writers, talkers, travellers, Love Scotland. Friends! ... more

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