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| Pro-union song written by Brian after he visited the Scottish Mining Museum in Newtongrange and talked to an old miner about the demise of the coal mining industry in Scotlandbrought on by Margaret Thatcher in the early 1980's. |
CD: Lowlander
Label: Wellfield Records
Credits: Ed vocals, Brian fiddle and bouzouki, Rich Brotherton guitar. |
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| Humorous trad cowboy song about the climate of Texas, with a couple of Scots fiddle tunes tacked on. |
CD: The Edinburgh Rambler
Label: Wellfield Records
Credits: Ed vocals, Rich Brotherton guitar, John Taylor fiddle. |
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| Probably Adam McNaughtan's best-known song, written in the late 1960s when Glasglow was experiencing comprehensive redevelopment. Thousands of four-story tenements were demolished and replaced by highrise blocks or housing schemes (like Castlemilk) on the outskirts of the city. Whole communities, which had developed around the slum tenement areas of old central Glasglow, were torn apart, and the city is still struggling to adapt to these new living conditions. Although this is pirmarily a funny song, by focusing on one tiny but poignant aspect of tenement life, it is also a very effective expression of protest. It has been adopted by so many Glasglow folk that Adam has even recorded versions of the song from children ni school playgrounds (i.e., it has successfully been incorporated into the folk repertoire). wean-kind; pieces-sandwiches |
CD: Live At The Cactus Cafe
Label: Wellfield Records
Credits: Adam McNaughtan |
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