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21 tracks | 53 minutes
Released Jan 2005
on Thane Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:19 Hornpipes: Boys of Blue Hill/Harvest Home/Quarrelsome Pi lyrics FREE 02:19 Hornpipes: Boys of Blue Hill/Harvest Home/Quarrelsome Pi lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:19 Hornpipes: Boys of Blue Hill/Harvest Home/Quarrelsome Pi
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:45 Air: The Far-Away Hills (Jim Crawford) lyrics BUY MP3 02:45 Air: The Far-Away Hills (Jim Crawford) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:45 Air: The Far-Away Hills (Jim Crawford)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:46 Polka: The July Fair (Jim Crawford) lyrics BUY MP3 02:46 Polka: The July Fair (Jim Crawford) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:46 Polka: The July Fair (Jim Crawford)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:31 Waltzes: Leezy Lindsay/Jeely Well Spread/A Rosebud by My Early W lyrics BUY MP3 02:31 Waltzes: Leezy Lindsay/Jeely Well Spread/A Rosebud by My Early W lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:31 Waltzes: Leezy Lindsay/Jeely Well Spread/A Rosebud by My Early W
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:39 2/4 and 6/8 Marches: Wade's Welcome/Mackenzie lyrics BUY MP3 02:39 2/4 and 6/8 Marches: Wade's Welcome/Mackenzie lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:39 2/4 and 6/8 Marches: Wade's Welcome/Mackenzie
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:18 Reels: Circassian Circle/Storrer's Hornpipe/Betsy Robertson lyrics BUY MP3 02:18 Reels: Circassian Circle/Storrer's Hornpipe/Betsy Robertson lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:18 Reels: Circassian Circle/Storrer's Hornpipe/Betsy Robertson
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:39 Waltzes: The Ash Grove/Jenny Jones lyrics BUY MP3 02:39 Waltzes: The Ash Grove/Jenny Jones lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:39 Waltzes: The Ash Grove/Jenny Jones
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:46 Marches: J. Shand's Comps. to J. Crawford/To Ella Crawford lyrics BUY MP3 02:46 Marches: J. Shand's Comps. to J. Crawford/To Ella Crawford lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:46 Marches: J. Shand's Comps. to J. Crawford/To Ella Crawford
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:09 Airs: The Music o' Spey/The Hills of Lorne lyrics BUY MP3 02:09 Airs: The Music o' Spey/The Hills of Lorne lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:09 Airs: The Music o' Spey/The Hills of Lorne
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:11 Scott Skinner's Comps. to Dr. MacDonald/Ballochmyle Brig/Jackdaw lyrics BUY MP3 03:11 Scott Skinner's Comps. to Dr. MacDonald/Ballochmyle Brig/Jackdaw lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:11 Scott Skinner's Comps. to Dr. MacDonald/Ballochmyle Brig/Jackdaw
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:02 Strathspeys: Cutting Bracken/Captain Horne lyrics BUY MP3 02:02 Strathspeys: Cutting Bracken/Captain Horne lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:02 Strathspeys: Cutting Bracken/Captain Horne
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:15 Jigs: Giffordtown Jig (J. Crawford)/Roaring Jelly lyrics BUY MP3 01:15 Jigs: Giffordtown Jig (J. Crawford)/Roaring Jelly lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:15 Jigs: Giffordtown Jig (J. Crawford)/Roaring Jelly
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:26 Marches: Captain Carswell/Marchioness of Tullibardine lyrics BUY MP3 03:26 Marches: Captain Carswell/Marchioness of Tullibardine lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:26 Marches: Captain Carswell/Marchioness of Tullibardine
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:29 The Boston Two-Step lyrics BUY MP3 02:29 The Boston Two-Step lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:29 The Boston Two-Step
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:27 Mazurka: La Varsovienne lyrics BUY MP3 02:27 Mazurka: La Varsovienne lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:27 Mazurka: La Varsovienne
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:54 Taking of Beaumont Hamel/Braemar Gathering lyrics BUY MP3 02:54 Taking of Beaumont Hamel/Braemar Gathering lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:54 Taking of Beaumont Hamel/Braemar Gathering
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:40 Waltz: Memories of Willie Snaith (J. Shand) lyrics BUY MP3 02:40 Waltz: Memories of Willie Snaith (J. Shand) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:40 Waltz: Memories of Willie Snaith (J. Shand)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:57 Inverness Gathering/Maggie Cameron/trad reel lyrics BUY MP3 02:57 Inverness Gathering/Maggie Cameron/trad reel lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:57 Inverness Gathering/Maggie Cameron/trad reel
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The 1920s - that's when Jim Crawford first took the stage. Now, at age 90, Jim recorded this CD, distilling the essence of nine decades of music making. Some people play Scottish traditional music. Jim Crawford is the tradition.
Bio / Background
It is the 1920s . . . the event a harvest home. A boy sits beside the fiddler, his father, and takes a turn on the melodeon.
Jim Crawford has been playing Scottish music ever since. After a career as a dance band leader from the 1940s through the 1970s, he has returned to the melodeon, the instrument he held on his knee at that harvest home.
The melodeon is a small, light instrument. Two sets of reeds, two rows of buttons, a thumb strap to connect the right hand to the box. But Jim says that you can play all of Scottish music on it, and the distinctive sound is what he likes to hear himself.
For this CD, Jim has selected tunes that suit the melodeon. Jim has included sets that will be new to you. His own composition "The July Fair" conveys his childhood memories of the annual Milnathort market fair, . Listen for the sounds and sights of the fair - German bands and carousels. Other sets are old, of the era when young men took pride in ploughing a good rig.
↓ more ↓Two of the tunes are old waltzes Jim remembers his father playing. When you listen to them, picture the young boy beside his father, nine decades ago, at the harvest home.
"In my young time, amongst the country folk, if you could plough a good rig and be a good player o' a melodeon, well you were somebody kind o' special." - Jim Crawford
Born on 14 April 1914, Jim Crawford grew up in a farming family, the oldest of nine children. Jim recalls hearing Scottish music ever since he was a small boy. Most especially Jim remembers the ploughmen going about their work singing and whistling tunes. His head is still full of those tunes, and the many others that he has heard throughout his life.
Jim first went to work as a ploughman. By the time he was 18, he was also playing regularly at local concerts. Forming bands to play for country dances naturally developed from there.
The wars years saw Jim leave the land to work for the railway, marry his wife Ella in 1939, and move to Edentown, Fife, where he still lives. During these years Jim and Ella ran weekly Saturday night dances. Jim won the solo Scottish championship in the Perth National Accordion competition in 1954. Shortly after this, he acquired a Shand Morino button key accordion from Jimmy Shand, which he played for over thirty years in his own broadcasting dance band. During the 1950s and 1960s he appeared regularly, live, on BBC Radio Scotland.
Jim has returned to the melodeon in later life, intrigued by the sound it produces and by the skill of those early players. He says that 'you can play all the Scottish tunes ever written, with the two row melodeon'. In this collection of tunes, we hear the 'old traditional sound' given new life. With the sensitive accompaniment provided by Graham Berry, you will hear why the 'wee melodeon' that Jim is so fond of playing is worth carrying into the future.
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