Produced by Nick Keir;
Recorded by Ian Beveridge mixed at Pier House Studios, Edinburgh;
Mixed by Nick Keir and Ian Beveridge at Pier House Studios, Edinburgh;
Photography by Gavin Anderson;
Original sleeve design and art direction by Gavin Anderson;
CD artwork by The Art Surgery

See also the album’s sleeve notes at Nick Guida’s The Balladeers website.

Musicians

Robin Laing: Spanish guitar, vocals;
Nick Keir: whistles, mandolin, additional guitar, Alpine megamouthie;
Ron Shaw: cello;
Jim Sutherland: percussion;
Colin Ramage: additional vocals;
Ross and Robin Li Laing: additional vocals [9]

Tracks

Side 1

1. Edinburgh Skyline (4.07)
2. Burke and Hare (2.32)
3. Love Is Born (2.47)
4. The Union Canal (5.02)
5. Leaving Today (2.58)
6. Icarus (2.55)

Side 2

7. Ulysses (4.25)
8. Isle of Eigg (2.50)
9. Day By Day (3.00)
10. Andrew Lammie (Roud 98; Child 233; G/D 5:1018) (4.03)
11. Spring Song (2.41)
12. Passing Time (3.09)

All tracks by Robin Laing except
Track 6 Anne Lister;
Track 10 trad. arr. Robin Laing

Recorded by Ian McCalman at Kevock Digital Studio, Lasswade;
Original photographs by Máté Gibb Photography;
Digital sleeve artwork by John Haxby

Musicians

Robin Laing: vocals, guitar;
James Malcolm: backing vocals, harmonica;
Hamish Bayne: concertina;
Nick Keir: whistle;
John Martin: fiddle;
Wendy Weatherby: cello

Tracks

1. More Than Just a Dram (4.10)
2. Our Glens (4.00)
3. Piper MacNeil (2.36)
4. Willie Brew’d a Peck o’ Maut (Roud 16787) (2.45)
5. The Parish o’ Dunkeld (Roud 13081) (2.20)
6. Tak’ Aff Your Dram (0.37)
7. Twelve and a Tanner a Bottle (2.53)
8. Whisky and Women (1.31)
9. Nancy’s Whisky (Roud 883; G/D 3:603; Henry H745) (2.59)
10. The Deil’s Awa Wi’ th’ Exciseman (Roud 16787) (1.33)
11. A Bottle o’ the Best (3.22)
12. John Barleycorn (Roud 164; G/D 3:559) (4.20)
13. Tongue Discipline (0.22)
14. Tall Tale (2.16)
15. Whisky You’re the Devil (Roud 21715) (2.40)
16. Tak’ a Dram / a Wee Deoch an Dorus (2.48)

Track 1 Robin Laing;
Track 2 Buff Hardie, George Donald;
Tracks 3, 5, 9, 15 trad. arr. Robin Laing;
Track 4, 10 Robert Burns;
Track 6 Sydney Goodsir Smith;
Track 7 Will Fyffe;
Track 8 Shel Silverstein;
Track 11 Jack Foley;
Track 12 lyrics Robert Burns, music Robin Laing;
Track 13 Daniel King;
Track 14 Watt Nichol;
Track 16 Ian Sinclair

Produced by Davie Scott;
Recorded by Davie Scott at East Kilbride Arts Centre, Lanarkshire;
Mastered by Stuard Hamilton at Castlesound Studios, Pencaitland;
Front cover photography by Robin Laing;
Sleeve design by Saltire Publications

Musicians

Robin Laing: vocals, Spanish guitar [1-3, 5-11, 13-14];
Brian McAlpine: piano [1, 3, 11], accordion [6, 8, 11];
Tom McNiven: trumpet [1, 8];
Wendy Weatherby: cello [1, 12, 14];
David Scott: acoustic guitar [2-3, 5-7, 10-11, 13], electric guitar [6, 8, 13], piano [4, 12, 14], bass [2-8, 10-11, 13];
Jim Gash: drums [2, 6-7, 11, 13];
Amy Geddes: fiddle [5, 13];
Mr Derek Star: percusssion [5-8, 14];
Ursula Ryan: harmony vocals [12];

Tracks

1. Where Did the Morning Go? (4.21)
2. The Wife of Usher’s Well (Roud 196; Child 79) (5.16)
3. Cyclops (4.57)
4. A Nation’s Heart (3.41)
5. Carmichael Mill (3.54)
6. Watershed (3.36)
7. Closer to Heaven (4.33)
8. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (3.45)
9. Michigan Skies (3.24)
10. Heavy Horses (4.37)
11. Born in the Wrong Time (5.01)
12. Venezuala (4.08)
13. Black Clothes (6.00)
14. The Secret Song of Time (4.07)

All tracks by Robin Laing except
Track 2 trad. arr. Robin Laing;
Tracks 5-7 Ursula Ryan, Robin Laing;
Track 12 John Niles;
Track 14 Robin Laing, last verse from W-H. Auden, As I Walked Out One Evening

Produced by David Scott;
Recorded at East Kilbridge Arts Centre;
Cover image by Ralph Steadman;
Photos of Robin Laing by Martine Nouet;
Design by John Slavin at The Living Tradition

Musicians

Robin Laing: vocals, guitar [10, 12, 14];
David Scott: guitar [1-2, 4-7, 9, 11, 13], bass [1-10, 13-14], organ [2, 8, 13], piano [3-4, 8-9, 13-14], acoustic guitars [3], keyboard [5], backing vocals [6], synthesiser [7];
Jim Gash: drums [1-3, 7, 9-10, 13];
Brian McAlpine: accordion [1, 7, 10], organ [1], piano [1];
Mr Derek Star: percussuion [1-2, 4, 6];
Wendy Weatherby: cello [4, 10-11, 14];
Donald Macrae: handclaps [5];
Kerry Laing: handclaps [5];
Charlie McKerron: fiddle [9, 13]

Tracks

1. A Wee Drappie o’t (Roud 5610; G/D 3:560) (3.01)
2. Shining Clear (2.53)
3. Jock Geddes and the Soo (Roud 5130; G/D 3:573) (4.07)
4. Lochanside (4.29)
5. The Devil Uisge Beatha (3.36)
6. The Best o’ the Barley (5.02)
7. The Wag at the Wa’ (Roud 21733) (4.07)
8. Bruichladdich (3.54)
9. A Cogie o’ Yill (Roud 6316) (3.11)
10. The Queer Folk in the Shaws (Roud 3803) (3.20)
11. The Barley Bree (4.00)
12. The Ghost Wi’ the Squeaky Wheel (5.42)
13. The Gulls of Invergordon (3.11)
14. A Wee Drap o’ Whisky (2.33)

Tracks 1, 3, 7, 9-10, 13 trad. arr. Robin Laing, David Scott;
Track 2 words ‘A Mile and a Bittock’ by R.L. Stevenson, music Alan Reid;
Track 4 words Jim Malcolm, tune John McLellan;
Track 5 Alan Reid;
Track 6 Brian McNeill;
Track 8 Robin Laing;
Track 11 words Robin Laing, tune Neil Gow;
Track 12 Tom Clelland;
Track 14 words trad., tune Robin Laing

Produced by David Scott;
Recorded at the East Kilbride Arts Centre;
Mastered by Peter Haigh at Pier House Studios, Edinburgh;
Cover illustrations by Bob Dewar;
Photographs by Robin Laing;
Layout by John Slavin at DesignFolk

Musicians

Robin Laing: vocals, Spanish guitar;
David Scott: acoustic guitars, electric guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, banjo, backing vocals;
Jim Gash: drums;
Mr Derek Star: percussion;
Ian Barbour: electric guitar, pedal steel guitar;
David Cormack: accordion;
Brian Molley: saxophone, flute;
Stuart Kidd, Rachel McKenzie, Ursula Laing: backing vocals

Tracks

1. World of Whisk. (3.04)
2. Heaven Hill (3.30)
3. The Sun’s Coming Over the Hill (3.50)
4. Elijah Craig (4.10)
5. Speyside Whisky Song (4.11)
6. A’Bunadh (5.52)
7. We Can’t Let Al Qaeda Get Their Hands on This (5.55)
8. Uisquebaugh Baut (5.04)
9. Bottle of Gin (2.26)
10. The Whisky Makes You Sweeter (3.31)
11. Reaching Home (3.33)
12. Rory’s Still (4.17)
13. Everything I Love (5.50)
14. Full Moon Whisky (2.50)

Tracks 1-2, 4-8, 11 Robin Laing;
Track 3 Karine Polwart;
Track 9 Mark Wise;
Track 10 Amy Allison;
Track 12 Simon Haworth;
Track 13 Harley Allen, Carson Chamberlain;
Track 14 Twgwen Roberts

Produced by David Scott;
Recorded by Keith Bird at Gran’s House Studios, Lamington, except
Tracks 5, 13 recorded by Duncan Cameron at Riverside Studios, Busby;
Mastered by Paul McGeechan at Waterside Productions, Bothwell;
Front cover illustration by Bob Dewar

Musicians

Robin Laing: vocals, occasional guitar;
David Scott: backing vocals, guitars, keyboards, mandolin;
Jim Gash: drums;
Mr. Derek Star: percussion;
Brian Molley: saxophone, flute;
Jenna Reid: fiddle;
Ursula Lang, Maisie Lang: backing vocals

Tracks

1. A Turquoise Frame of Mind (3.59)
2. Talisker Bay (3.42)
3. Special Sippin’ Whisky (3.20)
4. Macallan (3.47)
5. The Arran Dram (4.07)
6. Old Minmore (3.32)
7. Whisky for Breakfast (4.46)
8. Black Art (4.12)
9. The Wee Cooper o’ Fife (Roud 117; Child 277; G/D 7:1282) (3.50)
10. Monkey Shoulder (3.56)
11. Snuffed Out (2.36)
12. The Bruichladdich Dram (4.12)
13. Paul Campbell (4.30)
14. Loons Is Loons (2.10)
15. The Smallest Whisky Bar (3.53)
16. Bonus track: Ein Letztes Glas (2.22)

All tracks by Robin Laing except
Track 9 music trad., words Robin Laing, additional tune Miss Lea Frances Scott by David Scott;
Track 12 music trad., words Robin Laing;
Track 16 words Hans-Willi Ohl, music Tak a Dram, Ian Sinclair