Greentrax Recordings
Greentrax Recordings

1986-2024: Celebrating Scotland's Music for 38 years

Ian Green: 1934-2024

Mac Umba - Don’t Hold Your Breath

 — Bands — Bagpipes — Stream or Download only — CDTRAX113

Mac Umba present samba and Scottish bagpipe and drum crossover. A Greentrax best seller. One shop - Waterloo Records in Austin, Texas, USA - alone has sold over one thousand units of the album. Unique and exciting. “Mac Umba, a beast apart from any other Scots ethnic/roots band, and a wonderful… read more

Jock Tamson’s Bairns - A’ Jock Tamson’s Bairns

 — Bands — Stream or Download only — CDTRAX112

The Lasses Fashion & Jock Tamson’s Bairns. Jock Tamson’s Bairns - one of the most esteemed and influential bands in Scottish traditional music. The band’s first two albums (The Lasses Fashion and Jock Tamson’s Bairns) on one CD. The band members on The Lasses Fashion are Norman Chalmers (concertina, whistles, piano), John Croall… read more

The MacNaughton’s Vale Of Atholl Pipe Band - Live ‘n’ Well

 — Pipe Band — Stream or Download only — CDTRAX111

One of the top Scottish Pipe Bands, led at that time by Pipe Major Ian Duncan with Gordon Duncan, Pipe Sergeant. Solos by Mary-Ann MacKinnon and Andrew Wright. An exciting pipe band just bang on, and competition winners along the way. Recorded live at Motherwell Civic Centre and produced by Freeland… read more

Grand Concert Of Scottish Piping

 — Grand Concerts Of Piping — Bagpipes — Stream or Download only — CDTRAX110

Featuring Gordon Mooney, Angus D MacColl, Martyn Bennett, Gordon Duncan, Iain MacInnes and Allan MacDonald. On Friday 10th November 1995, The Lowland & Border Pipers Society, under the chairmanship of Hamish Moore, presented a Grand Concert of Scottish Piping in the main chamber of the Old Royal… read more

Dick Gaughan - Sail On

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Guitar & Mandolin — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX109

When Dick Gaughan signed to Greentrax in 1996, MD Ian Green was over the moon. They had been friends for years, since Ian’s involvement in the Police Folk Club (Fuzzfolk), and when Greentrax was launched in 1986, Dick was at the top of Ian’s ‘wants list’. Dick stayed with Greentrax and… read more

Kevin Mitchell - I Sang That Sweet Refrain

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX108

Kevin Mitchell is an Ulsterman, later living in Glasgow, with a repertoire of Irish songs and a style which both bear witness to where his heart lies. A wonderful interpreter of traditional song, this is an impressive collection of mainly Irish songs by Kevin. He was a member of the impressive… read more

The Occasionals - Back In Step

 — Accordion & Melodeon — Ceilidh & Scottish Dance Bands — Stream or Download only — CDTRAX107

The Complete Scottish Ceilidh Dance vol 2. The hard working and favourite Scottish ceilidh/dance band The Occasionals includes founder and ace accordionist Freeland Barbour, Runrig’s lead guitarist Malcolm Jones, Mairi Campbell (fiddle, viola), stringed maestro Kevin MacLeod (tenor banjo, mandolin, octave mandolin, guitar), Neil MacMillan… read more

Willie Hunter - Leaving Lerwick Harbour

 — Fiddle — CD — CDTRAX105

This recording was made in January 1994, during the last few weeks of Willie Hunter’s life. Although he was very ill, Willie was determined to complete the recording and leave a musical legacy. Willie was one of Shetland’s finest fiddlers, both as a soloist and with an accompanist, most often… read more

Deaf Shepherd - Ae Spark O’ Nature’s Fire

 — Bands — Stream or Download only — CDTRAX104

First album from the popular traditional group Deaf Shepherd. Their turbo-charged performances are packed with tastefully done ballads, and inventive high-energy arrangements of wild reels and cracking jigs. The band comprised Clare McLaughlin (fiddle), John Morran (vocals, guitar), Rory Campbell… read more

Ceolbeg - Five

 — Bands — Stream or Download only — CDTRAX100

The highly acclaimed Scottish band Ceolbeg release their fourth album for Greentrax. A modern folk sound with vocals, harp, pipes, keyboards, guitar, flute, bouzouki and drums.  Since their last album, singer Davy Steele has been replaced by Rod Paterson, another of Scotland’s best male… read more