One of the greatest Scottish singers-songwriters of a folk stripe, Dick Gaughan stopped performing ten years ago, after suffering a stroke, but his status has been incessantly growing in scope since then, so an idea emerged of compiling the veteran’s concert recordings into a respectable box set – which is out now. A result of a successful crowdfunding campaign, “R/Evolution: 1969/83” spans seven CDs and a DVD, with all the profits benefitting the retired and visually impaired artist.
Curated by the esteemed journalist Colin Harper, it includes 83 previously unreleased audio tracks, many of which Dick had never laid down in a studio, and 37 never-seen videos, running for two-and-a-half hours and unveiling a couple of otherwise unrecorded Gaughan originals; there are also two extensive illustrated booklets to give it all a proper context. Those who aren’t ready to go so deep in the Scot’s oeuvre, however, can acquire “Live At The BBC: 1972-79”: a ten-cut comp culled from the large set.
R/Evolution:
1969/83
CD 1
BBC Radio 2, 1969:
1. Fiddler’s Green
2. Burning Of Auchindoun
Edinburgh, 1970:
3. Jock O’ Hazeldean
St Albans, 1971:
4. The Three Healths
5. The Thatchers Of Glenrea
6. Derwentwater’s Farewell
BBC Radio 2, 1972
7. Jigs: The Langstern Pony / Banish Misfortune
8. Rattlin’ Roarin’ Willie
9. Fair Flower O’ Northumberland
BBC Radio 4, 1972:
10. Floo’ers O’ The Forest
11. Farewell To Whiskey
12. Slip Jigs: The Whinny Hills Of Leitrim / Paddy O’Brien Of Offlay’s
13. Rigs o’ Rye
14. Reel: The Hurricane
15. The Trooper And The Maid
16. MacCrimmon’s Lament / Mrs Jamieson’s Favourite
Ghuznee Fort, Gillingham, 1972:
17. The Jolly Beggar
Rehearsal, The Netherlands, 1971:
18. The Blackbird
19. The Cruel Mothers / Sweet Carnlough Bay / Andrew Lammie
Folkweave Radio 2, 1973:
20. The Jolly Beggar
21. Alan MacPherson Of Mosspark
CD 2
BBC Radio 2, 1973:
1. Farewell To Whisky
2. MacCrimmon’s Lament
Topic, 1975:
3. The Aughengeich Disaster
4. Bonny Whooda’
Alba, 1977:
5. The Cruel Brother
6. Sleepy Toon
Folksound, 1976:
7. Arthur MacBride
8. The Rashy Moor
St Andrews FC, 1974:
9. Lord Randal
10. The Gypsy Laddies
11. The John McLean March
BBC Radio 2, 1977:
12. Planxty Johnson
13. Raglan Road
14. Boys Of The Lough
15. The 51st Highland Division’s Farewell To Sicily
St Andrews Folk Club, 1977:
16. Rigs o’ Rye
17. Planxty Johnson
18. The Earl Of Errol
CD 3
John Peel, BBC Radio 1, 1977:
1. Farewell To Whisky
2. Boys Of The Lough
3. My Donald
4. Freedom Come All Ye
5. The Rashy Moor
6. Pinch Of Snuff
7. A Man’s A Man For A’ That
8. Carrickfergus
Topic, 1978:
9. Bonnie Jeannie O’ Bethelnie
10. Bonnie Lass Amang The Heather
11. Crooked Jack
12. The Recruited Collier
13. The Pound A Week Rise
14. My Donald
15. Willie O’Winsbury
16. Such A Parcel O’Rogues in A Nation
17. Gillie Mor
Topic, 1977:
18. Reels: O’Keefe’s / The Foxhunter’s
19. Reels: The Oak Tree / The Music in The Glen
20. Reels: The Spey in Spate / The Hurricane
21. Shetland Reels: Jack Broke The Prison Door / Donald Blue / Wha’ll Dance Wi’ Wattie
CD 4
John Peel, BBC Radio 1, 1978:
1. Jackson And Jane
2. The Trooper And The Maid
3. My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose
4. P Stands For Paddy
Folkweave, BBC Radio 2, 1979:
5. Coppers And Brass / Behind The Haystack
6. Erin The Green
7. Bonnie Jeanie O’Bethelnie
8. Fair Flower O’Northumberland
9. The Pound A Week Rise
10. Willie O’Winsbury
11. Craigie Hill
Folk 79, BBC Radio 2, 1979:
12. The 51st Highland Division’s Farewell To Sicily
13. Gillie Mor
14. The Bonnie Lass Amang The Heather
Folk on Two, London, 1981:
15. Jamie Foyers
16. Schooldays End
17. The Shoals Of Herring
R/Evolution:
1969/83
CD 5
Handful Of Earth, Topic, 1981:
1. Erin-Go-Bragh
2. Now Westlin Winds
3. The Snows They Melt The Soonest
4. Lough Earne / First Kiss At Parting
5. Scojun Waltz / Randers Hopsa
6. Both Sides The Tweed
Folk Friends 2, Wundertute, 1981:
7. The World Turned Upside Down
8. Lassie Lie Near Me
9. The Father’s Song
Parallel Lines, Wundertute, 1982:
10. The Lads o’ The Fair
11. My Back Pages
12. Floor’ers o’ The Forest
Edinburgh, 1981:
13. The Verdent Braes Of Screen
14. Too Much Of Nothing
15. McPherson’s Rant
16. Ballad Of The Men Of Knoydart
New York, 1972:
17. Come Lay Me Down, Love
CD 6
California, 1981:
1. Magdalen Green
2. Now Westlin Winds
3. Tommy’s People’s Jig / Jackie Daly’s Jig
4. Farewell To Whisky
5. Bonnie Jeannie o’ Bethelnie
6. The West Clare Railway / Chicago Reel / Jenny’s Welcome To Charlie
7. Lough Erne
8. Erin-Go-Bragh
9. Song For Ireland
10. Willie O’Winsbury
11. Craigie Hill
12. Your Daughters And Your Sons
13. Johnny & Molly / Colonel Fraser / Charlie Lennon’s
14. The World Turned Upside Down
15. Thirty-Foot Trailer
CD 7
Wundertute, 1983:
1. A Different Kind Of Love Song
2. Revolution
3. Prisoner 562
4. Song Of Choice
5. The Father’s Song
6. Think Again
7. As I walked on The Road
8. Stand Up For Judas
9. By The People
10. Games People Play
San Francisco, 1983:
11. The Rebel Corps
12. As I Walked on The Road
13. (tunes) with extended ovation
14. Freedom Come All Ye
New York, 1983:
15. Jigs: Tom Billy’s / The Monaghan/Sean Ryan
16. Raglan Road
17. Revolution
DVD – Dick Gaughan on Film 1970-2012
Live At The BBC:
1972-79
Live At The BBC: 1972-79
1. Floo’ers O’ The Forest
2. Rigs O’ Rye
3. Farewell To Whisky
4. Freedom Come All Ye
5. My Donald
6. Rashy Moor
7. Raglan Road
8. Fair Flower O’ Northumberland
9. Willie O’ Winsbury
10. Maccrimmon’s Lament
