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April 2023 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2023 Top 20 — More Instrumental — CD — CDTRAX417

Tom Ward plays concertina, guitar, small pipes and whistle on this album, and also sings on a couple of tracks. Brian Miller guests on guitar on one track. Tom started strumming the guitar when he was a teenager but later developed a love of the concertina, which became his instrument of choice. He… read more

September 2022 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2022 Top 20 — Ian Green’s Pick Of The Month — Gaelic Song — CD — CDTRAX416

The Fireside. “Highly acclaimed album of Gaelic songs by Fiona J Mackenzie. Sixteen tracks and several session musicians backing Fiona’s fine voice. Fiona is currently Archivist for The National Trust for Scotland in Canna House, on the island of Canna.” (Managing Director Ian Green’s Pick Of The Month… read more

February 2022 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2023 Top 20 — 2022 Top 20 — 2021 Top 20 — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX415

We cannot deliver this CD to Australia and New Zealand due to licensing restrictions. Customers can order online instead from Undercover Music NSW. Recorded in late 2021 in Australia, Eric Bogle surrounded himself in the studio with some amazing talent: Emma Luker (fiddle, cello, viola, harmony… read more

November 2021 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2022 Top 20 — Ian Green’s Pick Of The Month — Bagpipes — CD — CDTRAX409

“Eddie Seaman is a bagpiper, teacher and composer. He has toured across the world with the band Barluath and been involved in two albums with them. Currently Eddie’s life is dedicated to performing and teaching the Great Highland Bagpipe.” (Managing Director Ian Green’s Pick Of The Month… read more

October 2021 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2022 Top 20 — Compilations — Ian Green’s Pick Of The Month — Solo Singers & Songwriters — Spoken Word — Vocal Groups — CD — CDTRAX410

“A second collection of Hamish Henderson’s powerful songs, by various singers including Fiona Hunter, Cameron Nixon, John Morran and Hamish himself.” (Managing Director Ian Green’s Pick Of The Month album, July 2022) Dr Hamish Henderson - poet, singer-songwriter, folklorist and cultural and… read more

May 2021 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2022 Top 20 — 2021 Top 20 — Solo Singers & Songwriters — Spoken Word — CD — CDTRAX414

Every Regiment has legends and songs. These go beyond the tunes of the marching band and the laments of a church service but tell the real human story of the time and place. They come from the soldiers and form part of the DNA of a unit, connecting past to present in vivid, emotionally-charged,… read more

November 2020 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2022 Top 20 — 2021 Top 20 — 2020 Top 20 — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX413

“Folk songs are just stories set to music…” An outstanding collection of mainly contemporary songs, five written by Fraser Bruce himself, one traditional song and the rest by notable songwriters such as Eric Bogle, Dougie McLean, John Watt and Graeme Miles. Session musicians include Gavin… read more

September 2020 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2020 Top 20 — Ian Green’s Pick Of The Month — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX408

“A superbly arranged album providing a wide variety of sounds, and goes beyond the usual folk genre. It is being appreciated and enjoyed by all lovers of good music generally. Feedback suggests this is a special release.” (Managing Director Ian Green’s Pick Of The Month album, September 2022)… read more

April 2020 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2022 Top 20 — 2021 Top 20 — 2020 Top 20 — Ian Green’s Pick Of The Month — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX412

“The cracking album that marked Brian McNeill’s ‘musical half century’ and an excellent collection, mainly of Brian’s own songs. A multi-instrumentalist, talented singer and a very active touring artist, mainly in the UK, Europe and North America, Brian is always on the move. Brian was the… read more

December 2019 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2020 Top 20 — Scottish Tradition Series — Gaelic Song — CD — CDTRAX9028

Scottish Tradition Series vol 28. See also the companion book to this CD: Keith Norman MacDonald’s Puirt-a-Beul. Dance-songs feature in most Gaelic singers’ repertoires, but the range of songs performed today is a fraction of the surviving corpus. With this album - the first in the Scottish Tradition Series dedicated to… read more

September 2019 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Ian Green’s Pick Of The Month — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX407

“John Campbell Munro was a multi-instrumentalist, an outstanding singer-songwriter, a companion on stage and in the studio to Eric Bogle for decades, and a very lovely and gentle man who died before his time. This album features the life of the Australian legend Ned Kelly (and his gang) in song,… read more

June 2019 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2022 Top 20 — 2021 Top 20 — 2020 Top 20 — 2019 Top 20 — Ian Green’s Pick Of The Month — Vocal Groups — CD — Double CD — CDTRAX402

“A double CD collection for the price of one. The first CD contains all new recordings while the second CD is a selection of the group’s favourite tracks from previous albums and live tracks. This is cracking value from one of Scotland’s best bands who, prior to lockdown, had toured all over… read more

May 2019 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2020 Top 20 — 2019 Top 20 — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX404

An album of new songs and music with words by Alexander McCall Smith and music composed by James Ross. These Are The Hands explores Scotland’s relationship with the sea and the land, including themes such as immigration, emigration, ship building, fishing and mining. James plays piano and… read more

April 2019 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2023 Top 20 — 2019 Top 20 — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX403

With Brian Miller. Dougie Mackenzie sang mostly Gaelic songs in his youth but was introduced to folk song at the famed Inverness Folk Club run by Duncan MacLennan, who mentored Dougie and gave him numerous songs. Dougie is drawn to Scots ballad language and the stories it carries to us from the past. He lists many… read more

February 2019 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2021 Top 20 — 2020 Top 20 — 2019 Top 20 — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX401

Christine Kydd is one of Scotland’s leading, award-winning singers and recording artistes. With eclectic tastes, she is best known for her treatment of traditional and contemporary songs. Christine has toured, broadcast and recorded extensively, both solo and on a number of projects to produce… read more

May 2018 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2018 Top 20 — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX399

Glaswegian A C (Alex) Weir releases his debut album at 77 years of age! The music business has been transformed in the last couple of decades, but one of the plus points of the new digital landscape must surely be that technology makes it possible now for a man of 77, who had only previously… read more

April 2018 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2018 Top 20 — Compilations — CD — CDTRAX400

In August 2017 the painting Scotland’s Voices by Alexander (Sandy) Moffat MBE was unveiled in the Saltire Society Rooms, Edinburgh. The painting imagines some of the influential singers, players and tradition bearers of the Scottish folk revival, assembled round the poet, folk song collector and… read more

September 2017 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2017 Top 20 — Fiddle — CD — CDTRAX395

Matt Tighe was born in South London, with a London and Trinidadian background. He first discovered his love of traditional music and the fiddle listening to his parents’ album collection: The Chieftains and Tom McConville & Pauline Cato in particular made a lasting impression. After attending… read more

June 2017 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2018 Top 20 — 2017 Top 20 — Ian Green’s Pick Of The Month — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — Double CD — CDTRAX397

A double album reflecting the talents of Nick Keir. “The late Nick Keir toured the UK and Europe extensively with the band Finn mac Cuill before joining The McCalmans in 1982, when Hamish Bayne retired from touring. He remained with them for 30 years until the trio retired in 2004. During that time The McCalmans recorded 16 albums and most included… read more

February 2017 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2017 Top 20 — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX394

Songs From A Time And Place Alan Bell is a veteran singer/songwriter from the North-West of England. His best-known songs, amongst many, are Windmills and Bread And Fishes - the latter was recorded in several countries and was a hit in Japan. Alan also wrote for a number of radio and TV productions.… read more

June 2016 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2016 Top 20 — Scottish Tradition Series — Bagpipes — Gaelic Song — Spoken Word — CD — CDTRAX9027

Scottish Tradition Series vol 27. Various singers, storytellers and piping from the archives of The School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh. Sguaban A Tìr An Eòrna translates from the Gaelic as Sheaves From The Land Of Barley. Tiree, a low lying island of some thirty-six square miles west of Ardnamurchan Point, lacks… read more

February 2016 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2016 Top 20 — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX387

Songs For The Early Days Of A Better Nation. In 2014 Luath Press published a book of poems, Scotia Nova - Poems For The Early Days of a Better Nation. It seemed to make sense to release an album of new songs, Scotia Nova - Songs For The Early Days Of A Better Nation. A steering group of like-minded folk was formed: Mairi Campbell, Dave… read more

September 2015 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2016 Top 20 — Fiddle — CD — CDTRAX381

Gordon Gunn is one of Scotland’s top fiddlers and a member of the hugely successful Scottish band Session A9. He is also regarded as a talented composer, especially of slow airs which are the envy of all tunesmiths. Born and brought up in Wick, Caithness, Gordon was taught by the highly respected… read more

July 2015 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Scottish Tradition Series — Bagpipes — CD — CDTRAX9015

Scottish Tradition Series vol 15. Born in Strathglass in 1903, son of an estate worker, it was while his father was working on an estate in Glengarry that George Moss, not yet in his teens, began serious study of the repertory and traditions of the Highland bagpipe. He competed on occasions but spent a lot of his time studying and… read more

July 2015 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Bagpipes — CD — CDTRAX384

Ross Munro started playing the bagpipes under Pipe Major John D Burgess MBE at an early age. At seventeen he joined The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. After the mega success of the Spirit Of The Glen trilogy of albums on Decca Records, in which Ross played a pivotal role as Pipe Major on the Classical… read more

May 2015 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Compilations — CD — Double CD — CDTRAX383D

Brian McNeill & Friends Celebrate His Home Town’s Music The Falkirk Music Pot is one of three projects forming part of the Falkirk Creative Place 2014 Award programme. This recording project has been produced on behalf of Falkirk Community Trust and Falkirk Council by multi-instrumentalist,… read more

March 2015 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Accordion & Melodeon — CD — CDTRAX379

William Hannah (1891-1961) was born in the mining village of Blackburn, West Lothian. Having started on the mouth organ as a boy, he became well known as Scotland’s premiere melodeon player by the end of the First World War, during which he served in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. His role… read more

August 2014 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX382

The Brig Tae Nae Where (The Bridge To Nowhere) is the second Greentrax album by the Prestonpans singer Alex Hodgson. Twelve tracks on this album were written by Alex, plus one each by Robert Burns and Ewan MacColl. This new album is based on family memories of summer days past, some spent at… read more

May 2014 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Compilations — Wars & Battles — CD — CDTRAX1314

Commemorating the 700th Anniversary of Bannockburn in Music & Song. 2014 is the 700th Anniversary of The Battle of Bannockburn and Greentrax marks this important event with this compilation of songs, music and a poem by many of Scotland’s finest artists. 2014 is also the year of The Scottish Referendum and the album recognises this historical event. The title of… read more

September 2013 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Scottish Tradition Series — Gaelic Song — CD — CDTRAX9025

Scottish Tradition Series vol 25. Bu Chaoin Leam Bhith ‘N Uibhist (Gaelic Songs From The North Uist Tradition) Between 1950 and 1975 staff and students of the School of Scottish Studies, collecting material relating to the cultural life and traditional arts of North Uist, made over five hundred recordings of songs, music, tales,… read more