Billy Connolly - My Dixie Darling

Billy Connolly is joined by Shetland Fiddler Ally McBain and Author Andrew Greig in a rendition of 'My Dixie Darling' - performed in a tent beside the Loch of The Green Corrie in Assynt, Sutherland, NW Scotland.
The three were taking part in a fishing expedition to this remote location as part of a BBC Documentary celebrating the centenary of the birth of Scottish poet Norman MacCaig, who died in 1996.

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• Billy Connolly
• Ally McBain
• Andrew Greig
• Norman MacCaig
• Loch of The Green Corrie
• Assynt
• Sutherland
• Scotland
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• Banjo
• My Dixie Darling

[MSfeller]

I'm from Dixie and I live in north Scotland. Awesome to see Dixie Darling being played up here by such an iconic Scotsman. Great video!

[GodsFavoriteBassPlyr]

@tigertraxx2002 :( nope

[tigertraxx2002]

@GodsFavoriteBassPlyr  not from Scotland then?

[dougallsdiscs]

Billy has Ali Bain on the Fiddle,great to listen to,slainte mohr,Murray

[jamieconn]

here are some of my favorite quotes from MacCaig

" i don't like man kind, i like jimmy and jenny, and him and her and different people but man kind are a rotten lot"

-when asked about history in an interview

when asked about politicians he mocked they way they use language

"when they say words like.. socialism.. what do they mean by that, they know it begs an emotional respose.. but with no precision on meaning,, poets do that ... they

give the emotional sense and the intellectual sense"

[LeFeff]

Where can one see more of this program?

[GodsFavoriteBassPlyr]

Wow.....Who knew that Billy could play and sing??

This is super cool!

[MrHarryt8]

My introduction to 5 String Banjo.

I remember when this came out on LP (1971?).

Great stuff. Much nostalgia.......

[dvdmsch]

music for my heart

[oldglasgow]

@Wullawonta

You're welcome - it's the least I can do for a pal!!