Review: Edinburgh’s Greatest Hits
Image: The Bay City Rollers in Edinburgh before they were famous, from Edinburgh Live, photo credit Len Cumming. This post … Read more
Image: The Bay City Rollers in Edinburgh before they were famous, from Edinburgh Live, photo credit Len Cumming. This post … Read more
Soundyngs’ editor laments their inability to speak Gaelic but this new collection of Tolmie’s collected songs is generously furnished with … Read more
Soundyngs was rummaging around in the internet this week and found this resource in the webpages of the National Library … Read more
History starts, I guess, “yesterday”, and this book pushes right at the threshold of what is “history” and what is … Read more
The story of the Scottish Reformation and its music is here brought into focus by the biography of Jhone (John) … Read more
Soundyngs recently reviewed a book on 19th century popular entertainment. Today’s post reviews a picture-book history of Scottish dance halls … Read more
Review: The Life of a Showman: David Prince Miller A review is normally of a new book, but in this … Read more
Image: cover art from Window to the West This book, jointly authored by Meg Bateman and John Purser, is an … Read more
Image: The Bog Trotters Band, in Galax, Virginia, 1937. Autoharp, fiddlers, guitar. Geologically, the Appalachians are a continuation of the … Read more
Image: cover of a 1600 edition of the Gude and Godle Ballatis, from Wikipedia / Project Gutenberg Soundyngs has posted … Read more
Image: ‘hear no evil’ gargoyle on Paisley Abbey. Creative Commons Licence CC BY-SA 3.0 Recent posts from Soundyngs have been … Read more
Douglas Macintyre, Grant McPhee, with Neil Cooper, and a forward by Ian Rankin, Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground … Read more