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Battlefield Band
12+ albums
folkcelticScottishceltic folkscottish folk
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The Battlefield Band is a Scottish band playing traditional music and their own compositions, with occasional forays into other traditions as well as covers of contemporay popular songs. The band's current brand of music was developed when Brian McNeill and Alan Reid were joined by Jenny Clark (vocals, guitar, cittern, dulcimer) and Duncan MacGillivray (pipes and whistle). Stand Easy, the album they recorded in 1979, still stands up as one of the band's finest. The next line-up included Dougie Pincock (bagpipes) and Jim and Sylvia Barnes, Alan Reid (vocals and electric keyboards) and Brian MacNeill (fiddle). Alan has been a constant member ever since. Every line-up has had a bagpiper, and sometimes two. For a mainly instrumental and traditional band, the presence of electric keyboards is unusual but even more unusual is the absence of percussion. Every album revives some well-researched, long-dead Scottish songs and tunes as well as modern compositions (often original ones). The music ranges from the usual drinking, friendship, and hard times to history, geography, and politics. As one the most well-travelled folk bands of the past twenty years or more it is no surprise that there have been some exhausted members. The present line-up consist of Alan Reid (Keyboards/Guitar/Vocals), Mike Katz (Highland Bagpipes/Small Pipes/Whistles/Guitar), Alasdair White (Fiddle/Whistle/Banjo/Bazouki/Highland and Small Pipes/Bodhran) and Sean O' Donnell (Vocals/Guitar). User-contributed
top songs
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Miss Drummond of Perth / Fiddler's Joy / Traditional Reel / The Shetland Fiddler
7,5122The Battle Of Falkirk Muir
7,3123The Lady Leroy
5,8034The Tamosher
5,7645Blackhall Rocks
5,6886Jenny Nettles / The Grays of Tongside
5,1717The Brown Milkmaid / Dunnottar Castle / Maid of Glengarrysdale / Disused Railway
5,1348Joe McGann's Fiddle / Center's Bonnet
4,9929The Devil's Courtship / An Dro
4,66710Tae the Beggin'
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