Iona Fyfe - Guise of Tough (Celtic Connections 2018)

'Guise of Tough' - Available Now. Taken from the album 'Away From My Window' out 24th March 2018

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Iona Fyfe - vocals
Graham Rorie - mandolin
Charlie Grey - fiddle
Ross Miller - whistle, vocals
Simon Gall - piano, vocals
Innes White - guitar, vocals
Charlie Stewart - double bass

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This is a song which I would often hear at singarounds, sessions and bothy ballad competitions. Growing up, I’d attend many Traditional Music and Song Association and Buchan Heritage Society events, in which I met many singers such as Joe Aitken, Geordie Murison, Jim Taylor and Scott Gardiner, all of whom would often o er the audience a great rendition of this bothy ballad.

The song is about a man who is hired by “Jimmy Broon”, after an initial feed of bread and cheese, he soon finds that he is disappointed in the quality of his horses, and the plough doesn’t work either! I met the legendary Jock Duncan in 2012 at Turriff Bothy Ballad Competition where he was adjudicating the senior bothy ballad competition, and the terrifed 14-year-old me.

Found in John Ord’s Bothy Songs and Ballads and in the Grieg-Duncan Folk Song Collection (3:378) Roud 3800