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Kick Out The Ghosts 01. Urban Warriors 4:56 02. Kick Out The Ghosts 4:12 03. Stone Thistle 4:43 04. Evergreen State 5:20 05. Heaven & Hell 5:43 06. Dream Pilot 4:13 07. Waiting For The Up 5:33 08. Battlegroove Shuffle 6:26 09. EH1 4:56 10. Power Tripper 4:20 Offbeat Scotland 2005 OS010CD Front portrait by Kenny Steel Sleeve design and digital artwork by Neil Warden Tracks 1, 5, 6 Mckinna. Tracks 2, 4, 10 McRae Track 3 Pipedreams. Track 7 McRae/Warden Track 8 McRae/Trad.. Track 9 McKinna/McRae Track 1 – Intro taken from “Elders Lament” by Kent/McRae from the album “Oil and Water” Track 5 – Lyrics from Santa Maria by Hildegard Von Bingen Following a successful solo tour of the west coast of the USA, Jimi McRae and Iain McKinna formed a band to promote the albums. In it's present line up the band has been gigging extensively since 2003. Now with the release of their latest album Kick Out The Ghosts, Pipedreams are increasingly bringing their unique and intoxicating brand of contemporary Scottish pipe based music to an appreciative and ever widening audience, both throughout the UK and beyond. Jimi McRae : Highland, Lowland, Border, Arabic & Electronic pipes Jimi McRae was for many years Edinburgh's best known street busker at his pitch at St Giles in Edinburgh's Royal Mile and was known originally as the Biker Piper. A road accident in 1994 put him out of action for two years, but in 1999 a fortuitous meeting with top Scottish record producer Iain McKinna of Offbeat
