Music

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May 2007: A live recording (about 90 minutes long) is now available from NSG’s recent America tour. Click here to download the segments or the complete archive.The following albums are available for convenient purchase & download online at iTunes, Rhapsody and amazon.com:

A Long Road. (Celebrating 40yrs of North Sea Gas.)

Tracks from every album over the last 40yrs along with 4 brand new tracks

Hearth & Homeland

  1. Wha wadna fecht for Charlie
  2. The jolly Beggarman
  3. The Water is wide
  4. Set of Tunes: Cramond Island / The Big Canoe / The_Cowshed
  5. The_Fields o’Rosslyn
  6. Ye Banks and Braes
  7. Coming Home
  8. Rough Justice
  9. The Rigs o’Rye
  10. Mission Hall
  11. Blow ye Winds in the Morning
  12. O’er the Water tae Charlie

When we go rolling home

  1. The Queen of All Argyll
  2. It Was a’ for Our Rightfu’ king
  3. Roll the Old Chariot
  4. Set of Tunes
  5. When We Go Rolling Home
  6. There’s a Long Long Trail a-Winding
  7. The World Turned Upside Down
  8. Take Me out Drinking Tonight
  9. Haul Away
  10. Are You Sleeping Maggie
  11. No Ash Will Burn
  12. Trooper and the Maid
  13. Tartan Plaidie
  14. Tae the Beggin
  15. Only Remembered

Fire in the Glen

  1. Awa_Whigs_Awa
  2. Fire in the Glen
  3. Maggie Gangs Away
  4. Over the Hills and Far Away
  5. Dream Angus
  6. Set of Tunes: Montgomery Ball Waltz / The High Drive
  7. Some Hae Meat
  8. Burghead Sands
  9. Colliers Eight Hour Day
  10. Heave Ya Ho
  11. Back on the Road
  12. Bonnie Lass O’ Gala Water
  13. Ain’t it a Beauty
  14. Johnnie Cope
  15. Tae the Weavers Gin Ye Go
  16. Coorie Doon

The Fire and the Passion of Scotland

  1. Aye no no
  2. Back o ‘Bennachie
  3. Calling doon the line
  4. set of tunes: Franks Reel / Hulls Reel / the Road to Errogi
  5. Tide Full In
  6. I’m having a bit tonight
  7. Maggie Lauder
  8. Song for the Mira
  9. Standard on the Braes O’ Mar
  10. Windmills
  11. White Cockade
  12. Fear a Bhata
  13. The Battle o Harlaw
  14. Wonderful Thing

Take a Dram Afore Ye Go

  1. Sound the Pibroch
  2. Road To Drumleman
  3. Set Of Tunes
  4. Willie Taylor
  5. The Yellow on the Broom
  6. Ca the Yowes
  7. Thirty Foot Trailer
  8. Yellow Girls
  9. Sleepytoun
  10. The Reiver’s Galley
  11. When The Kye Come Hame
  12. I Just don’t look Good Naked Anymore
  13. Mormond Braes
  14. Heart Like A Wheel
  15. Atholl Gathering
  16. Haughs O Cromdale
  17. Tak A Dram Afore Ye Go

Edinburgh Toon

  1. Introduction
  2. Edinburgh Toon
  3. Broom O’ The Cowdenknowes
  4. Set of Tunes
  5. I Wish they’d do it now
  6. Nancy Whisky
  7. Doonie Burn
  8. Slip Jigs and Reels
  9. Star O’ the Bar
  10. Cam Ye O’er Frae France
  11. It’s Braw Sailing on the Sea
  12. Drinking with Rosie
  13. Goodbye to the Sea
  14. Dat Du Min Leevsten Bust
  15. McPherson’s Rant
  16. All of the hard Days are gone

Glencoe Massacre

  1. Massacre of Glencoe
  2. Ballad of St. Annes Reel / St. Annes Reel
  3. Road and the Miles tae Dundee
  4. Willies gone tae Melville Castle
  5. Hawks and Eagles
  6. if Wishes were Fishes
  7. Lock the Door Lariston
  8. The Gypsie Rover
  9. Freedom come all Ye
  10. Dawning of the Day
  11. Hush Hush Inisheer
  12. Flowers of Edinburgh / Andy Renwicks Ferret
  13. John McLean March
  14. Bright blue Rose
  15. New York Girls
  16. Generation of Change
  17. Ye Jacobites by Name
  18. Will ye no come back again

Rosslyn

  1. Rosslyn
  2. Congress Tunes Set (Wee Michael’s March, NSG Reel, The Congress Reel)
  3. Barnyards O’ Delgaty
  4. Follow the Heron
  5. One Of Those Days
  6. Birnie Boozle
  7. Classy Lassie
  8. Jamie Raeburn
  9. Aberdeen Tunes Set (Irene Meldrums, Asleep At the wheel, Break Yer Bass Drone)
  10. Torn Screen Door
  11. Killiecrankie
  12. I Will Go
  13. Tramps and Hawkers
  14. Too Far From She
  15. Bonnie Lass O’ Fyfie

Lochanside

  1. Lochanside
  2. Freeborn Man of the Travelling People
  3. Hector the Hero
  4. The Gallowa Hills
  5. I’m looking for a Job
  6. Tunes (Jig O Slurs / Stan Chapman’s / McArthur’s Road)
  7. A Little Bit More
  8. Raglan Road
  9. Twa Recruiting Sergeants
  10. Joseph Baker
  11. Waltzing’s for Dreamers
  12. The Overgate
  13. Paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde
  14. Shift and Spin
  15. Tunes (Lady Louisa Gordon / Trip to Ballyshannon / Old Time Wedding Reel / Calum Findlay)
  16. Sae Will We Yet

Dark Island

  • all Gods Creatures
  • Dark Island
  • Kishorn Commandos
  • Sonny’ Dream
  • Harry Brewer
  • Bonnie Bessie Logan
  • Flower o’ Scotland
  • Our Town
  • Caledonia
  • Cairn O’ Mount
  • Roses O’ Prince Charlie
  • Set Of Tunes
  • Loch Lomond
  • Auld Lang Syne

Spirit of Scotland

  1. New York Girls & Snurren Polka
  2. Farewell Tae the Haven
  3. A Man’s a Man
  4. Blossom Set (Tunes)
  5. Road and the Miles tae Dundee
  6. Lock the Door Lariston
  7. Reconciliation
  8. John MacLean March
  9. Daughters and Your Sons
  10. Craigie Dhu (Tune)
  11. Scots Wha Hae
  12. Trooper and the Maid
  13. Generation of Change
  14. Jeanie & Davie McCall
  15. Hush Hush & Inisheer

Schiehallion

  1. Mally Leigh
  2. Coshieville
  3. Gypsy Laddie O’s
  4. Come Ye By Atholl
  5. Dark Island
  6. Schiehallion
  7. Lads Among The Heather
  8. Mothers, Daughters, Wives
  9. The Haughs of Cromdale
  10. Westering Home
  11. Shoals Of Herring
  12. Troy’s Wedding Medley
  13. I’m A Rover
  14. Loch Tay Boat Song
  15. The Uist Tramping Song
  16. Bound To Go

Power of Scotland

  1. Sound the Pibroch
  2. Carrickfergus
  3. The Mason’s Apron
  4. Hieland Laddie
  5. Black Jack Davey
  6. Spanish Lady / Blackthorn Stick
  7. The Final Trawl
  8. The Lord of the Dance
  9. Hieland Laddie
  10. Whisky on a Sunday
  11. Rattlin’ Roarin’ Willie / the Kesh Jig
  12. The Rolling Hills of the Borders
  13. The Mingulay Boat Song
  14. Leezie Lindsay
  15. I wish I was hunting
  16. I’ll tell me Ma / Green Gates / The Barren Rocks of Aden

Scottish Destiny

  1. Freedom come all ye
  2. Air Fa La La Lo
  3. Follow me up to Carlow
  4. Massacre of Glencoe
  5. Willie’s gang to Melville Castle
  6. Bonnie Dundee
  7. Leaving of Liverpool
  8. Bright blue rose
  9. Dawning of the Day
  10. Ye Jacobites by Name
  11. Caledonia (old version)
  12. Jig O’ Slurs Atholl Highlanders Caliope House
  13. Wind in the Willows
  14. Kishorn Commandos
  15. Maries Wedding
  16. Molly Malone

Keltic Heritage

  1. Ballad of St. Annes Reel
  2. if wishes were fishes
  3. the battle’s over
  4. the gypsy rover
  5. liberty
  6. broadford bay
  7. hawks and eagles
  8. whip jamboree
  9. sweet eleanor
  10. dirty old town
  11. wark o’the weavers
  12. the flowers o’edinburgh / andy renwicks ferret
  13. rolling home
  14. will ye not come back again

Caledonian Connection

  1. Killiecrankie
  2. Yellow on the Broom
  3. Fields of Athonrye
  4. Ringsend Rose
  5. Montrose
  6. The Alamo
  7. The Irish Rover
  8. Lads O the Fair
  9. Steal Away
  10. Kirk Douglas Ghoullie
  11. Loch Lomond
  12. Black Velvet Band
  13. The Wild Rover
  14. Flower Of Scotland

Live from Edinburgh

  1. All Gods Creatures
  2. Three Score And Ten
  3. Sheriffmuir
  4. Willie McBride
  5. McPhersons
  6. Kelty Clippie
  7. The Box
  8. Strangest Dream
  9. Bonnie Ship The Diamond
  10. Mountains Of Mourne
  11. Come O’re The Stream Charlie
  12. Marie Ann
  13. Ramblig Rover
  14. Jug Of Punch
  15. The Farewell Medley
  16. Journeys End

From Fields Afar

  1. North Sea Gas
  2. Yesterdays Men
  3. Loving Hanna
  4. Wha Widna Fecht
  5. A Mans A Man
  6. Skye Boat Song
  7. Black Black Gold
  8. Aye Walk In O
  9. News From Moidart
  10. The Shearing
  11. On St Ronan’s

The Collection

  1. Skye Boat Song
  2. Drums and Guns
  3. Rose Of Allendale
  4. Aye Waukin O
  5. McPhersons Farewell
  6. Farewell Tae Tarwathie
  7. As I Walked Out
  8. Wild Mountain Thyme
  9. Roses Of Prince Charlie
  10. Wha Winda Fecht
  11. Marie Ann
  12. The Balena
  13. The Dutchman
  14. Jug O Punch
  15. The Bonnie Lass O Fyfie
  16. Yesterdays Men

Embo’s Golden Shore.

  1. Embo’s Golden Shore
  2. Grannie’s Heilan Hame

Spirit Of The Banished

  1. The Balena
  2. Nut Brown Maiden
  3. The Dutchman
  4. Dainty Davey
  5. Fareweel Tae Tarwathie
  6. I Will Go
  7. Twa Recruiting Sergeants
  8. Farewell To Nova Scotia
  9. No Man’s Land
  10. The Rose Of Allendale
  11. Whisky In The Jar
  12. The Lowlands Low

Those So Dearly Held

Those so dearly Held

  1. The Gallawa Hills
  2. Carrickfergus
  3. Scots Wha Hae
  4. The Bonnie Lass O’ Fyfie
  5. The Mermaid
  6. Wild Mountain Thyme
  7. The Roses O Prince Charlie
  8. Johnny I Hardly knew You
  9. The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
  10. Johnny Cope
  11. As I Walked Out
  12. High Germany
  13. The Bold O’Donahue
  14. Donegal Danny