Duncan McCrone - Land Of Gold [CD]

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Duncan McCrone is a Glasgow-based singer-songwriter whose musical CV goes right back to the early seventies, when he joined Hot Toddy, with Billy Ross (of Ossian fame) and Cy Jack, who has been his song-writing partner and fellow musician in virtually every musical venture since. A five-year period with folk-rock band Dapplegrim followed with Duncan then embarking on a \u2018ludicrous pop career\u2019 (he says) under the name Duncan Aran, releasing a couple of singles.\r
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In the true tradition of the failed pop idol, Duncan spent a couple of years playing bass guitar in covers bands before joining the well-established folk and popular band The Clydesiders in 1982. Duncan stayed with The Clydesiders for eighteen years, until the band called it a day in 2000, however during this time he and Cy had been developing their song-writing and branched into writing and recording music for film and TV with their production company Ranza Music. In 2001 Duncan signed to the Glasgow label Downtown Records, and under the name Duncan McCrone and the Tron Band a live album, recorded at Glasgow\u2019s Tron Theatre - \u2018Just a Glasgow Boy\u2019 - was released. This was followed in 2006 with a studio album \u2013 \u2018All You Need To Know\u2019 \u2013 co-produced by Bay City Roller Stuart \u2018Woody\u2019 Wood, then in 2012 Duncan recorded his third album, \u2018Colourblind\u2019. Duncan and The Duncan McCrone Band are now well established in the Scottish folk scene but Duncan prefers to think of it as the 'Duncan and Cy Band', although they go out often as a trio of Duncan, Cy, Jim Yule and/or Stevie Lawrence. \r
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\u2018Land of Gold\u2019 is Duncan\u2019s first album for Greentrax, who welcome him warmly to the fold. The tracks include: \u2018Land of Gold\u2019 featuring the wonderful Gaelic singer Kathleen Macinnes, about a girl who left the Hebrides to seek her fortune in Canada\u2019s Yukon Valley; \u2018If Wishes Were Fishes\u2019, an Eric Bogle song loved by Ian Green\u2019s wife June, to whom Duncan has dedicated the song; \u2018The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face\u2019, the stunning love song written by Ewan MacColl; \u2018The Pioneers\u2019, a song inspired by the story of Bashir Ahmad, Scotland\u2019s first Asian MSP; \u2018My Eldorado\u2019 a lament for a life unfulfilled and full of regrets; Matt McGinn\u2019s classic \u2018Magic Shadow Show\u2019; \u2018Resurrection Road (aka A Clydeside Carol)\u2019, with a featured vocal by the legendary singer-songwriter Rab Noakes; \u2018My Old Man\u2019, Ewan MacColl\u2019s poignant observation of the effects of advancing technology on the lives of craftsmen and their families; \u2018The Song of The Skylark\u2019, an amazing account of one of the \u2018brave little ships\u2019, which alone saved 660 souls from the Dunkirk beaches; \u2018The Surf and The Silver Fishes\u2019, a song inspired by the loss of the Carradale trawler Antares which was sunk in a tragic incident off Arran in 1990. This is a brand-new version featuring just Duncan, plus Chris Stout\u2019s wonderful piano arrangement; plus more tracks.\r
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Despite this being Duncan\u2019s fourth \u2018solo\u2019 album, he\u2019s very aware indeed that it belongs just as much to his co-writer and life-long friend Cy Jack, who co-wrote the original songs, and was de facto musical director on this project, but couldn\u2019t be persuaded to share the (ahem) \u2018limelight\u2019 with Duncan. \r
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Duncan has always had a philosophy of working only with his friends, who just happen to be some of the finest musicians in Scotland and the North of England, and without exception they have given far more than 100% in helping make this Duncan\u2019s finest album to date. On \u2018Land of Gold\u2019, the honorary \u2018Tron Band\u2019 are :\r
Duncan McCrone (vocals, guitar); Cy Jack (bass guitar, double bass, keyboards, vocals); Jim Yule (guitar, vocals); Stevie Lawrence (bouzouki, guitar, bodhran, mandola, percussion); Ray Laidlaw (percussion); Chris Stout (fiddle, viola, piano); Catriona McKay (harp); Fraser Speirs (harmonica); Sandy Brechin (accordion); Finlay Macdonald (small and highland pipes, whistles); Kathleen MacInnes (vocals); Rab Noakes (vocals); Jim Jack (vocals); Paul Savage (drums).\r
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\u2018Land of Gold\u2019 was recorded, mixed and mastered at the legendary Chem 9 Studios in Blantyre by the amazing Paul Savage, who co-produced the album with Duncan and Cy. The process was \u2018a joy from start to finish\u2019.

Land Of Gold

If Wishes Were Fishes

The Song Of The Skylark

Run, Run, Run

Honeymoon Bridge

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

The Pioneers

My Eldorado

Resurrection Road (A Clydesdale Carol)

Magic Shadow Show

My Old Man

Harbour Wall

The Surf And The Silver Fishes