John MacLellan - Scottish Bagpipe Music (CD)

Details: John A. MacLellan performs a variety of traditional bagpipe songs, called "piobaireachd". These songs, as Ewan explains in an introduction presented along with Henry Cowell (see liner notes), were mostly traditional war songs (some were celebration songs for marriage or birth) that had "come down through the years as unwritten melody, freely flowing, and subject to the personal interpretation of each performer." the liner notes also include information and history on the instrument itself, as well as a short bio on MacLellan.

Tracklist:

1. I Hae' a Wife O' My Ain / Brose and Butter / Dagshai Hills (Medley)
2. Cabar Feidh / Piper's Bonnet / Smith of Chillechassie (Medley)
3. Lament for Colin Roy MacKenzie
4. The Pap of Glencoe / Maggie Cameron / John MacDonald's Reel (Medley)
5. The Plains of Normandy / Smith's Old Wife / Dram Before You Go (Medley)
6. Leaving Lunga / Abercairney Highlanders / Arthur Bignold of Lochrosque (Medley)
7. Seann Truibhais / Haughts of Cromdale / Glengarry's March (Medley)
8. A Coronach for John F. Kennedy
9. The White Cockade / Scotland's Welcome to the King of Norway / Braes of Tullymet / Reel of Tulloch (Medley)
10. Farewell to the Creeks / Captain Oldfield's Welcome to Kilravock (Medley)