Freewheeling Now by Jim Reid & John Huband

JIM REID had been leader of Arbroath’s legendary Foundry Bar Band for more than ten years when he recorded this album in 1990 and, with the band, he had already recorded three highly successful albums. His solo album I Saw the Wild Geese Flee, first issued in 1984, established him as one of the country’s finest interpreters of Scottish song - a position finally recognised when he won the Scots Singer of the Year at the Scots Trad Music Awards in December 2005. For this, his second song album, Jim teamed up with the well known Dundee accordionist John Huband.

Jim's beautiful rendition of Jack Foley's Lassie o the Morning is a gem - and plays as the first track on the BandCamp link. The title track Freewheeling Now is one of Jim’s own compositions. Other songs include traditional favourites O Gin I Were a Baron’s Heir and the Dundee whaling song The Balaena, Mary Brooksbank’s famous Jute Mill Song and the powerful West Highland song Cruachan Ben.

Tracklist

1.	Hey Donald	2:01

2.	Whar the Dichty Rins	3:04

3.	Queer Fowk	2:21

4.	Cruachan Ben	3:49

5.	O Gin I Were a Baron's Heir	3:51

6.	The Great Storm is Over	3:09

7.	Music on His Mind	2:16

8.	Back in Scotland	3:37

9.	The Balaena	3:27

10.	An t-Eilean Muileach	3:40

11.	The Lassie o the Morning	3:54

12.	The Moothie Man	2:27

13.	Oh Dear Me / The Jute Mill Song	3:08

14.	Scattered	4:21

15.	There's No Indispensable Man	2:21

16.	The Auld Beech Tree	2:58

17.	Freewheeling Now	3:52

Credits

released November 23, 1990

Musicians:
Jim Reid sings on all tracks and plays guitar, mouthorgan & concertina.
John Huband plays accordion & Roland U-220.
Jim Sutherland adds percussion on tracks 1, 6, 9 & 17.
Gus Millar plays snare drum on tracks 4, 8 & 15 and kettle drum on tracks 1, 3, 12 & 14
Produced by Peter Shepheard • Engineered by Peter Haigh
Recorded at Pier House, Edinburgh in July & August 1990
Sleeve notes by Jim Reid & Peter Shepheard
Photography by Pete Boardman • Design by John Haxby

Copyrights:
1: Mary Brooksbank; 2: J Lowe/ J Reid; 3: trad arr J Reid; 4: P MacIntyre/ J Reid; 5: W Holder/ J Reid; 6: Bob Franke; 7, 8: J Reid; 9: trad arr J Reid; 10: D MacPhail/ J Reid: 11: J Foley; 12: J Huband/ J Reid; 13: Mary Brooksbank; 14: E Duthie/ J Reid; 15: anon/ J Reid; 16, 17 J Reid.
All published Springthyme Music.

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