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1. Heritage
2. Viva
Scotia
3. She
Made a Woman Outta Me
4. Carrickfergus
5. Merry Masons (instrumental)
6. One in a Million
7. Low
Lady Low
8. Jump
Right In
9. I Belong
10. Start
Living
11. Paterson's Curse (instrumental)
12. Uisge
B'eatha
13. Independent's
Day This CD was recorded at the "Governor
Hindmarsh" Hotel on Fri the 23rd of Jan 1998 in front of
500 people. The Engineer was another Englishman called, Chris
Dickie. We had been recommended to use him in 1994 by the head
of A&R at BMG, because Chris had worked in London on the
"Pogues" albums with Steve Lillywhite, and had also
recorded a CD with Annie Lennox. It took 4 years to get our
man. The songs on the album were mostly new ones that the audience
loved and we wanted to document with this new line-up. There
were also a couple from previous albums that we felt we could
do a better job on, we wanted to capture the energy that is
sometimes lost in the studio. 150 people put pre-orders in on
the night and got their names on the album sleeve, and the rest
danced and sang their heart out. 'Heritage'
the opening track was a song that I, Jim, wrote in my mum's
kitchen in Scotland in 1980. I never played it to anyone until
1994, and it's been in the live act ever since. It was inspired
after seeing "The Waterboys" on "The Old Grey
Whistle Test" and realising a song could last more than
3 minutes.
'Viva Scotia' was written
for a year before we recorded it but it didn't have any lyrics.
We knew it had to have passionate sentiments, and Scotland
was just about to become Independent again so we wanted to
write about that. We decided to phone up Eric Bogle, who also
lives in Adelaide, and is a fantastic lyricist and he faxed
us the finished lyrics back in about 10 minutes! (It makes
you sick) We entered the song to be the new Scottish National
Anthem but it didn't win. The one that did win couldn't be
sung at Rugby matches and other places of national fervour,
so the public soon booted that one out too. (So we still live
in hope and believe this should be the new anthem!)
'Uisge B'eatha' (The
Water of Life) was written after our former bass player suggested
we needed a song that started with a gaelic chant. I had seen
this inscription "The Water of Life", which was
relating to whisky by the way, on a statue in Perth in Scotland,
and had always remembered how lovely a saying they had given
to a drink that got you so absolutely blotto that you fell
and slept in ditches?
'One in a Million' was
written about our son Rowan, and how special he is, but so
many other people have told us it is about their son or daughter.
It's for them all!
'Low Lady Low' was inspired
by our Scottish & Irish ex-pat friends who love Australia
but are still so attached to their homeland. Each time Jim
& Alex go home, when they get back to Australia they are
divided about where they belong. With their families in Scotland
or Ireland or their new family in the "Land of Promise?"
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