Wild & Beautiful
by Silly Wizard
- Type: Album
- Released: 1981
- Label: Highway
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 42:59
- Community rating: 3.87/5 from 4 ratings
Artists on this release: Phil Cunningham, John Zollman, Archie Fisher, Martin Hadden, Gordon Jones
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A masterful showcase of traditional Scottish music, 'Wild & Beautiful' highlights the virtuosic accordion and fiddle interplay of the Cunningham brothers. The record perfectly balances deeply melancholic, pastoral acoustic ballads with breathtakingly fast, energetic instrumental reels, securing the band's status as folk revival legends[cite: 1].
Genres
Descriptors: Folk, nature, melodic, folklore, mountains, folk, acoustic, traditional, ensemble, strings, instrumental, vocal, guitars
Tracklist
- If I was a Blackbird (7:33)
- Pipe Major Donald Campbell - The Orphan - The Kestrel - Come Up Alang (Jigs) (4:10)
- The Pearl (3:56)
- The Fisherman's Song/ Lament for the Fisherman's Wife (8:30)
- Hame, Hame, Hame - Tha Mi Sgith (Slow Air) (6:48)
- Tha Mi Sgith (Strathspey) - Eck Stewart's March - MacKenzie's Fancy (Marches) (4:25)
- Miss Patricia Meagher (3:00)
- A.B. Corsie (The Lad from Orkney) - Ril Bheara - Richard Dwyer's (Reels) (4:33)
Credits
- Phil Cunningham - accordion, whistle, keyboards, electric piano, vocals
- Gordon Jones - acoustic guitar, bodhr谩n
- Martin Hadden - bass, guitar, keyboards
- Roy Ashby - drums [guest]
- Dougie Maclean - fiddle [guest]
- Andy M. Stewart - lead vocals, banjo, whistle