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The Trawling Trade

from An Audience With The McCalmans 1973 by McCalmans

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We had our favourite folk clubs in England and there were many, but top of the list was Cleethorpes/Grimsby Folk Club and the main two reasons were the resident band (The Broadside) and the audience. Every time we went there the Broadside, particularly John Connolly and Bill Meek, had new material and this is one of the self-penned songs, "The Trawling Trade". We found songs and arranged them just for that club. It made us "up our game". It's a great song with another average intro from me...."boats" not "ships". Get a grip, Ian.

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from An Audience With The McCalmans 1973, released March 16, 2021
Concertina and Mandolin on this and I think Derek played the mandolin, which was a bit of a one-off. I came in on guitar later. Rick Nickerson played bass so well and it's worth reflecting on the permutations of disaster which could have happened in a full concert with no retakes if just one musician "lost the place". Unrelated to that last statement, Derek and I take the vocal leads.

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McCalmans Edinburgh, UK

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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