Jock Tamson’s Bairns

Although they remained jointly only a short while in the original stage of their career, Jock Tamson’s Bairns became perhaps one of the most acclaimed traditional Scottish bands from the last 2 decades from the 20th century, with luminaries like Alasdair Fraser and Richard Thompson counting themselves as admirers. Produced in Edinburgh in the past due ’70s, the group had taken its name in the Scottish stating “we are all Jock Tamson’s Bairns,” and therefore folks are all fundamentally the same. The Bairns grew from the Scots music group Chorda, which performed often in the Sandy Bells Pub, the guts of the thriving picture of Scottish music artists, writers, and performers motivated to re-examine the customs of their homeland — partially by their close by university research, and partially (over the musical end) incidentally the Chieftains had been doing quite similar part of Ireland. Fishing rod Paterson (vocals, guitars), John Croall (whistle, bodhran), and Norman Chalmers (concertina, accordion) all performed over the 1977 concert record Sandy Bells Ceilidh within Chorda, plus they decided to maintain playing jointly once that group disbanded. Adding guitarist/vocalist Tony Cuffe (ex-Alba), Welsh guitarist Jack port Evans, fiddler/vocalist Adam Jack port (also of Chorda), and fiddler Ian Hardie, the recently constituted Bairns agreed upon with Robin Morton’s Temple label and documented a self-titled debut record, that was released in 1980. The Bairns toured Scotland intensely in support, but workers shifts ensued promptly — Cuffe remaining to become listed on Ossian, while Jack port was changed by ex-Chorda fiddler Derek Hoy. Cuffe, Chalmers, Hoy, and Paterson all offered instrumental support for audience Billy Kay on the 1981 tribute to Scottish poet Robert Fergusson, Fergusson’s Auld Reikie. After that, in 1982, the Bairns authorized with this issue label and released their landmark masterpiece, The Lasses Style, a spirited documenting which drew from over the spectral range of traditional Scottish music. Abruptly, nevertheless, Jock Tamson’s Bairns continued an extended hiatus beginning in 1983, with the majority of its users shifting to additional tasks. Paterson, Chalmers, and Evans created the Easy Golf club, with the second option two soon shifting to the even more intensifying Cauld Blast Orchestra, and Paterson to Ceolbeg. (Chalmers ultimately started teaching collegiate programs on Scottish music aswell.) Hoy and Hardie, in the mean time, both performed in dance rings (Bella McNab as well as the Occasionals, respectively), among additional tasks. In 1996, the Bairns reunited having a lineup of Paterson, Chalmers, Hoy, Hardie, and Choall (no Evans) and started performing live once more. That same yr, the Greentrax label reissued the Bairns’ two ’80s albums on the CD two-fer entitled A’ Jock Tamson’s Bairns. Finally, in 2001, the Bairns documented and released their third recording, May Ye By no means Lack a Scone, also for Greentrax; also under their belts had been their first worldwide touring appearances.