"Highland Strands" cd by Kevin Macleod

[kmmando]

[Ron McMillan]

Kevin - guess who's in Chiang Mai tonight? Nigel Richard. We'll drink a toast to your CD's success.

[kmmando]

Ha! Say hello to Nigel, and get every second person in Thailand to buy a copy! Got loads more to sell!!!!
My cousin Danny O'Brien lives in Chiang Mai somewhere - a serious pool player and kick-boxing teacher!

best wishes, Kevin

[kmmando]

[Teejay]

Hi Kevin

Managed to get my scanner working again - so here's a better reproduction of yesterday's Scotland on Sunday review from Norman Chalmers.

Good to hear you got home fine - thanks for the tune - always a treat - see you soon.

Tim

[kmmando]

Thanks Tim, perhaps the reviews will bring in a few sales, who knows?

[kmmando]

Available direct from me and now in the USA from Elderly, here

http://elderly.com/recordings/items/BEAG-CD003.htm

and "Braes of Badentarbat" as well.

http://elderly.com/recordings/items/BEAG-CD002.htm

Great Christmas gifts?

[Denman John]

Which do you prefer ~ CD sale direct from you, or iTunes download?

Regards
John

[kmmando]

Well, John, as you can imagine, iTunes and Amazon take a hefty cut, leaving the artist with a pittance, whereas direct from me, I can make a few bucks towards trying to claw back the outlay to make it, so preferably from me via the website. And the artwork is much nicer too!

regards from Scotland , Kevin

[kmmando]

Holding up the Irish Music Magazine Scottish charts at no 10!

SCOTLAND TOP 10
1 King Creosote ~ From Scotland With Love ~ Domino
2 Julie Fowlis ~ Gach Sgeul ~ Machair
3 Dougie MacLean ~ Essential ~ Dunkeld
4 James Yorkston ~ Cellardyke ~ Domino
5 McGoldrick, McCusker and Doyle ~ Live ~ Self Released
6 Adam Holmes ~ Heirs and Graces ~ Gogar
7 Catriona McKay And Chris Stout ~ Seavaigers ~ Mckay Stout Music
8 Blue Rose Code ~ Ballad Of Peckham Rye ~ Ronachan
9 Iain Morrison ~ Haunted Bird ~ Peatfire
10 Kevin MacLeod ~ Highland Strands ~ Beag
Courtesy of CODA Music, Edinburgh, Scotland www.codamusic.co.uk

[Gelsenbury]

It's a wonderful CD, Kevin. Your mandolin playing evokes a spring of clear, fresh water. And the other instruments sound great too. The pipe marches are my favourites so far.

[kmmando]

It's a wonderful CD, Kevin. Your mandolin playing evokes a spring of clear, fresh water. And the other instruments sound great too. The pipe marches are my favourites so far.

Thanks indeed, Gelsenbury, pipe marches are such fine tunes to play.
slainte
Kevin

[kmmando]

.... and you can, of course go into iTunes online store where all the tracks on the new cd can be previewed, and tracks from my previous recordings are all available in digital download format. The full format hard copy cds can be got from me direct via my website listed below.

Just in time for Christmas, go on, treat your friends!

many thanks, Kevin

[kmmando]

Now available at Elderly Instruments, if you don't wish to go via my website, where I will autograph the cd if you ask me to.

http://elderly.com/recordings/items/BEAG-CD003.htm

and this one too, with the wonderful melodionist Ali Beag Macleod
http://elderly.com/recordings/items/BEAG-CD002.htm

[kmmando]

Anyone fancy this?

[Teejay]

Just caught up with this Kevin

Great fun to see one's name used in a sentence using the word supergroup - thank you so much for that - will treasure the moment - even though it's as well the contribution was kept short so as not to jeopardise the description

Have a great birthday tomorrow

Tim

[Denman John]

I just ordered a copy for Elderly's, along with a few other goodies for Christmas. Really looking forward to getting it and having a first listen to the full CD. The videos here have been great so far!

Thanks Kevin!

[kmmando]

Thanks John, I just got the stock over to Elderly, so pleased it worked out for you. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it! Let me know what you think anyway. Glad you liked the vids, quite fun to make!

all the best from Scotland

Kevin

[kmmando]

http://elderly.com/highlights/mandolin.html

[kmmando]

Rob MacKillop But it is superb. A classic. People SHOULD buy it!

G. Doc Rossi Really nice work - I hope you're selling a ton of them!

still got some for sale - these guys seem to like it!

many thanks
Kevin

http://www.kevinmacleod.co.uk

[Jim Nollman]

Whiskey Before Breakfast is a Scottish tune. I didn't know that.

[JH Murray]

Whiskey before Breakfast is a Canadian tune written by the Metis fiddler Andy DeJarlis circa 1957. It's such a great song it's popular in Irish, Scottish, Bluegrass...

[BBarton]

'Just received Highland Strands today and actually sitting here listening to it right now -- nice stuff!! Interesting bit of folklore about Whiskey Before Breakfast -- good to know, especially since it's played a lot around this part of Canada and usually credited as Irish.

[JH Murray]

DeJarlis appeared as a regular on Don Messer's Jubilee, which was a popular CBC music program. This helped promote the song across Canada and the northern USA.

[Mike Anderson]

DeJarlis appeared as a regular on Don Messer's Jubilee, which was a popular CBC music program. This helped promote the song across Canada and the northern USA.

He is so respected there is an Irish standard fiddle tune called "Andy de Jarlis". I have a version by Altan on the album "Island Angel". Seems it was originally a Cape Breton tune, possibly by Jerry Holland.