> Folk Music > Records > Tom Hughes: Tom Hughes and His Border Fiddle
Tom Hughes and His Border Fiddle
Tom Hughes and His Border Fiddle Springthyme Records SPR 1005 (LP, UK, 1981) |
Recording, production and photography by Peter Shepheard;
Recorded in Bedrule village hall near Denholm, at The Plough, Lilliesleaf,
and in Jedburgh in between July 1978 and May 1980;
Mixed by Ian Sinclair at GRF;
Photographs taken in the yard and bar of the Fox and Hounds in Denholm;
Sleeve design by James Hutcheson
Musicians
Tom Hughes of Jedburgh: fiddle
with
Wattie Robson of Denholm: fiddle [2-3, 5-7, 9-11, 13, 15-16, 18-19];
Jack Carruthers of Canonbie: tin whistle [1];
Brian Miller of Penicuik: guitar [1, 11, 19];
Sid Cairns of Hawick: guitar [6-7, 10, 13, 16];
Bob Hobkirk of Dodburn: fiddle [19];
Tom Scott of Canonbie: fiddle [19]
Tracks
Side 1
- Redesdale Hornpipe / Galloway Hornpipe hornpipes (3.05)
- Braes o Mar strathspey (1.37)
- Tam’s Old Love Song / Banks of Kale Water slow air and reel (1.25)
- Marquis of Lorne’s Hornpipe hornpipe (2.02)
- Henry Hughes’ Favourite Spanish waltz (1.43)
- Sidlaw Hills march (1.24)
- The Wife She Brewed It march (2.33)
- Faudenside Polka polka (2.02)
- Auld Robin Gray song air (2.46)
- Flouers o Edinburgh / East Neuk o Fife country dance (2.07)
Side 2
- Lady Mary Ramsay / Orange and Blue strathspeys (2.47)
- Millicent’s Favourite / Tam’s Untitled Hornpipe hornpipes (1.44)
- Farewell to Whisky / Roxburgh Castle country dance (2.42)
- Kelso Hiring Fair victoria waltz (2.03)
- Old Rustic Bridge song air (2.23)
- Morpeth Rant country dance (2.26)
- Auld Graden Kirn St. Bernard’s waltz (1.27)
- Liberton Pipe Band polka (1.57)
- Redeside Hornpipe hornpipe (2.33)
> Folk Music > Records > Tom Hughes & Friends: Traditional Fiddle Music of the Scottish Borders
Traditional Fiddle Music of the Scottish Borders
Traditional Fiddle Music of the Scottish Borders Springthyme Records SPRCD 1044 (CD, UK, July 2015) |
Recording, production and photography by Peter Shepheard;
Recorded in Bedrule village hall near Denholm, at The Plough, Lilliesleaf,
and in Jedburgh in between July 1978 and May 1980;
Mixed by Ian Sinclair at GRF;
Photographs taken in the yard and bar of the Fox and Hounds in Denholm;
Sleeve design by James Hutcheson
Musical Traditions review by Phil Heath-Coleman
Musicians
Tom Hughes of Jedburgh: fiddle
with
Wattie Robson of Denholm: fiddle [1-3, 8, 11, 16, 18, 20-21, 23, 28, 32, 34-35];
Bob Hobkirk of Dodburn: fiddle [1, 18, 35];
Tom Scott of Canonbie: fiddle [1, 18, 35];
Jack Carruthers of Canonbie: tin whistle [1];
Brian Miller of Penicuik: guitar [1, 18, 35];
Sid Cairns of Hawick: guitar [11, 20-21, 23, 28]
Tracks
- Redesdale Hornpipe / Galloway Hornpipe hornpipes (3.05)
- Braes o Mar strathspey (1.30)
- Tam’s Old Love Song / Banks of Kale Water slow air and reel (1.25)
- Tam’s Victoria Waltz old time dance: victoria waltz (1.58)
- Marquis of Lorne’s Hornpipe hornpipe (2.02)
- Cowie’s Hornpipe / St Patrick’s Day or Tell Her I Am / Turkey in the Straw hornpipe, jig & reel (2.40)
- Lady Mary Ramsay / Orange and Blue strathspey and schottische (1.41)
- Henry Hughes’ Favourite Spanish waltz (1.43)
- The Frost Is All Over / Jackson’s Morning Brush / Irish Washerwoman Irish jigs (2.31)
- Sidlaw Hills / The Wife She Brewed It marches (1.24)
- Sidlaw Hills / The Wife She Brewed It marches (2.33)
- The Huntsman’s Chorus folk dance (1.27)
- The High Road to Linton air & reel (1.26)
- The Barren Rosks of Aden / Nut Brown Maiden pipe marches (2.02)
- Champagne Charlie song air (1.23)
- Auld Robin Gray song air (2.46)
- Faudenside Polka polka (2.02)
- The Rock and a Wee Puckle Tow / Tevioy Brig / The Stool of Repemtance jigs (3.03)
- Cock Yer Leg Up varsovienne (1.17 )
- Flouers o Edinburgh / East Neuk o Fife country dance (2.07)
- Lady Mary Ramsay / Orange and Blue strathspeys (2.47)
- Lilliesleaf Polka polka (1.15)
- Farewell to Whisky / Roxburgh Castle country dance (2.42)
- Millicent’s Favourite / Tam’s Untitled Hornpipe hornpipes (1.44)
- Greencastle Hornpipe / Off to California / The Dundee Hornpipe hornpipes (2.07)
- Boys of Blue Hill / The Harvest’s Long in Coming hornpipes (1.28)
- Morpeth Rant country dance (1.19)
- Morpeth Rant country dance
- Kelso Hiring Fair victoria waltz (2.03)
- Lady Mary Ramsay / Soldier’s Joy strathspey & reel (1.21)
- The Triumph country dance (1.00)
- Old Rustic Bridge song air (2.23)
- Auld Graden Kirn St. Bernard’s waltz (1.30)
- Liberton Pipe Band polka (1.57)
- Redeside Hornpipe hornpipe (2.33)
All tracks trad. arr Tom Hughes, Wattie Robson except
Tracks 10a, 11a Jim Watson;
Track 35 Willie Atkinson