Dick Gaughan (born 1948)
Scottish singer of traditional and contemporary songs. His own compositions
often have themes of social comment.
(Born Richard Peter Gaughan in Glasgow, but moved to Leith, Edinburgh while still a baby. Dick has recorded with
The High Level Ranters, 5 Hand Reel, Boys Of The Lough, Andy Irvine and
Clan Alba. Some tracks are guitar instrumentals)
Albums.
Title. | year. | Label. | No.
|
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No More Forever | 1972 | Trailer |
LER 2072 |
[Reissue] | 1997 |
Leader | |
Kist O' Gold | 1976 | Trailer |
LER 2103 |
Coppers and Brass | 1977 |
Topic | 12TS315
|
[Reissue] | 1994 |
Green Linnet | 3064 |
Gaughan | 1978 | Rubber |
|
[Reissue] | 1995 |
Topic | 12TS287 |
A Handful Of Earth | 1981 |
Topic | 12TS419
|
[Reissue] | 1995 |
Green Linnet | 3062 |
A Different Kind of Love Song | 1983 | Celtic
Music/Folk Freak |
CM 017 |
[Reissue] | 1999 |
Appleseed |
CD1018 |
Fanfare For Tomorrow | 1985 | Impetus |
IMP 18506 |
[Reissue] (vinyl) | 2007 |
Impetus | |
True and Bold | 1997 |
STUC | 2 |
Call It Freedom | 1988 | Celtic
Music | CM 041
|
[Reissue] | 1997 |
Celtic Music | |
Woody
Lives | 1988 | Black Crow |
CDR217 |
Sail On | 1996 | Greentrax |
CDTRAX 109 |
Redwood Cathedral | 1998 |
Greentrax | CDTRAX158 |
Outlaws and Dreamers | 2001 |
Greentrax | CDTRAX222 |
Lucky For Some | 2006 |
Greentrax | TRAX-CD0290 |
Collaboration - Dave Burland, Tony Capstick and Dick Gaughan.
Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
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Songs of Ewan MacColl (*) | 1978 |
Rubber | RUB027
|
[Reissue] | 1997 |
Black Crow | CROCD 215 |
(* Live at The Crypt Folk Club, St Martin's-In-The-Field, London, December
1982)
Collaboration/ Tribute - Dick Gaughan, Billy Bragg, Maddy Prior, Richard
Thompson, Teddy Thompson, Christy Moore, Blue Murder etc.
Title.
| year.
| Label.
| number.
|
Shining Bright: The Songs of Lal and Mike Waterson |
2009 |
Topic |
? |
Collaboration - Dick Gaughan and Andy Irvine
Title.
| year
| Label
| Number |
Parallel Lines
| 1982 | Folk Freak
| FF 4007 |
[Reissue] | ? |
Appleseed |
CD1017 |
Tribute Album (for Ian McCalman) - Dick Gaughan, Aly Bain, Isla St Clair et
al.
Title. | year. | Label. | No.
|
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McCalman Singular | 2005 | |
|
Compilation.
Title. | year. | Label. | No.
|
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Prentice Piece (*) | 2002 |
Greentrax | TRAX-CD0236
|
The Definitive Collection | 2006 |
Highpoint | HPO-CD6014 |
(* "Prentice Piece" is a 30-year retrospective
of Gaughan's work)
Live Albums.
Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
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Live in Edinburgh | 1985 |
Impetus | |
[Reissue] |
1997 | Celtic Music |
030 |
Gaughan Live at the Trades Club | 2008 |
Greentrax | TRAX-CD0322 |
Best Albums(*).
Title. | year. |
---|
Kist O' Gold | 1977 |
Coppers and Brass |
1977 |
Gaughan | 1978 |
A Handful Of Earth |
1981 |
(*)Based on critical opinion.
Popular downloads.
Title. |
---|
Erin-Go-Bragh |
Song For Ireland |
The World
Turned Upside Down |
Now Westlin Winds |
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy |
Both
Sides of the Tweed |
Craigie Hill |
Anthology - Various artists including Dick Gaughan
Title. | year. | Label. | No.
|
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The Second Folk Review Record | 1976 | Folksound |
|
The Iron Muse | | |
|
Sandy Bell's Ceilidh | 1977 | |
|
Folk Friends 2 | 1981 | Folk Freak |
|
[Reissue] | 1990 |
Wundertute | CD TUET 72.150 |
Songs For Peace | 1983 | Rounder/Folk Freak |
|
Out Of The Darkness | 1984 | Fire On The Mountain |
|
Fanfare For Tomorrow | 1985 | Impetus |
|
Woody Lives (A Tribute to Woody Guthrie) |
1987 | Black Crow |
CRO 127 |
The Folk Collection | 1996 |
Topic | TSCD481 |
Never The Same (*) | 2005 | |
|
(* Dick Gaughan, Aly Bain, Boys of the Lough, Lal Waterson
et al)
Anthologies - various artists including June Tabor, Seamus Ennis, Dick
Gaughan, Bothy Band.
Title.
| year.
| Label.
| No.
|
Green Linnet 20th Anniversary Collection (2 CDs) | 1996
| Green Linnet | 106
|
The High Level Ranters with Harry Boardman and Dick Gaughan.
Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
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The Bonnie Pit Laddie
(2 LPs) (*) | 1975 | Topic |
2-12TS271/2 |
[Reissue] |
1997 | Proper |
|
[Reissue] |
2009 | Topic |
TSCD 486 |
DVD - Collaboration: Aly Bain, Jay Ungar, Iris Dement, Mary Black, Karen
Matheson, Anna McGarrigle, Donal Lunny, Dick Gaughan, John Martyn, Emmylou
Harris, Davy Spillane, Rod Patterson, etc etc.
Title | year. | Label.
|
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The Original Transtatlantic Sessions (recorded c 1999) | 2009 |
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Websites
www.dickalba.co.uk/
Last updated on 27/08/2010