The Yellow Haired Laddie

By Andy May

  1. The King Of The Pipers
    Phil’s Favourite
  2. Rowley Burn
    The Piper In The Well
  3. The Peacock’s March
    The Drunken Parson
    Rookland Lasses
  4. The Bonny Lass Of Bon Accord
  5. The Piper’s Song
  6. Da Slockit Light
  7. Go To Berwick Johnny
    Dog Leap Stairs
    Because He Was A Bonny Lad
  8. Bobby Shaftoe
  9. Blow The Wind Southerly
    Sidlaw Hills
  10. Cheviot Lament
  11. The Golden Eagle
    The Banks
  12. Roslyn Castle
    The Mason’s Apron
  13. Caller Herrin
    Sir Sidney Smith’s March
  14. Farewell To The Dene
    The Spey In Spate
    Billy Pigg’s

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“Andy May: The Yellow Haired Laddie” ~ Northumbrian pipes

Fellside Recordings - FECD174 - March 2003

Andy May - Northumbrian pipes, piano
Kathryn Tickell - fiddle, viola
Stan May - harmonica
Simon Haworth - guitar, cittern, bass, vocals
Simon James - poem

A lovely selection of melodies, but sadly I’ve only been able to catch fragments of this online, as yet not blessed with the full earful. However, here’s what reads like a fair review of this recording, Alex Monaghan, ‘The Living Tradition’:

http://www.folkmusic.net/htmfiles/webrevs/fecd174.htm

& a fragment from that:

"Nine times open championship winner ~ About half the two dozen tunes here are from the Northumbrian tradition, or at least adopted long ago. The other half come mainly from Scotland, with a couple from Irish piping and one or two from the wider English tradition. ~ Technically, Andy May’s playing isn’t note perfect but it’s pretty close. Artistically, he’s well able to convey the Northumbrian tradition and he has plenty of his own ideas to try ~ 52 minutes of very fine music. ~ The whole thing is very nicely put together, with good sleeve notes too, so The Yellow Haired Laddie seems to be a winner all round." - Alex Monaghan

You’ll have to link over to ‘fill in the blanks’. It’s a nice little review…