Dick Gaughan - Now Westlin Winds

From a 1983 BBC Spectrum documentary

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Gaughan
• Folk

[iansweans]

Jesus, I'm having a Dick Gaughan night, and it just seems to get better and better. Absolutely stunning voice...a throat full of working class gravel, a head full of honesty and integrity and a heart that beats like a shipyard hammer. Keep 'er between the hedges, Dick.

[jubjub2112]

God I love this song

[andybadger]

Ha. Im having a Dick Gaughan night too.. Had forgotten how incredible he is. Havent heard this for twenty years and its so damn fresh and clear. Awesome.

[londonemski]

My favourite Burns poem in my favourite musical arrangement. If you like this, check the recording on Dick's spellbinding album 'Handful of Earth' (1981). Dick's website provides a bit of commentary on his recordings. I can't seem to put a link in this comment, but the website is dickgaughan dot co dot / discography /dsc-hoe dot html with a view gaps closed up etc!

[johnypebs]

I heard this, for the first time, on radio nan Gaidheal yesterday. Working away in my shed, I had to stop what I was doing, my throat tightened as I listened, by the third verse my eyes had filled.

[Ulstermandd]

@skipy936 lol, nows theres a story!

[Ulstermandd]

@dghn1 yes my friend! its a treat once u get it!

[dghn1]

Before wearing my fingers raw, does anyone know if this is DADGAD?

[scotrelf]

@sergeantfan3 yes to both - the words refer to the french revolution and its impact on scotland and comparing it to nature - when he refers to 'socials join and leagues combine' he is talking of the combination acts which prevented seditious workers 'combining' to cause touble - nothng chnaged really! Maximum of 6 on the picket lines in the public sector strikes of 2011....

[getarslim]

Yes, written by the bard himself, Robert Burns.

[DonegalRaymie201]

@iansweans

I'm wanting to come to yer next Gaughan nite ya bass!