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Thursday, February 22, 2007

REAL MEN WEAR KILTS

The latest CD from the Brobdingnagian Bards, Real Men Wear Kilts, is four or five years in the making. I forget. It's been a LONG time. I remember how it started too.

We were in Salado playing an evening party for Clan Gunn when our friend Royce implanted the idea that we should do a Scottish CD. Well, we had just finish Songs of Ireland, and I was already thinking about it too. I'm Scotch-Irish but never really embraced my Irish half until recently. To me, I was all Scottish! I've long wanted to record more Scottish songs, but somehow fate intervened and most of the music I learned was Irish. Who am I to go against fate?

That didn't stop this idea. We didn't know many Scottish songs back then. But I had quite a few I wanted to learn. So we started learning them.

Shortly after that I designed some free Real Men Wear Kilts stickers to giveaway. Then my friend Jen Clower-Brown redesigned them to the current style.

Time passed and still we hadn't touched this CD idea. Finally in January of 2007, something clicked inside us. We learned and accepted something about us as a band.

You see the Brobdingnagian Bards are not a typical Celtic music group. I love keeping traditional songs alive, but as a group we, well, we have fun with the music. We play around with the lyrics pronunciations. I can't begin to tell you how many people have emailed and said, "It's TROOSERS, not TROUSERS!" Other Scots laughed when I sang "Loch Lomond" with an Irish accent a few years back.

Well, we don't accents nearly as much as we did, but when you're an American singing songs written in the Scots dialect, you have to make a few decisions. Do you rewrite songs? Do you use them as is?

For us, nothing is sacred we do what we do without apology... with one caveat. We want you to know what to expect. If you're expecting some contemporary Celtic sound from Scottish musicians, listen to Ed Miller. He's outstanding. If you're expecting us to not screw up the Scottish dialect, think again.

All in all, I think Andrew said it best, "We're not Scottish. So we're crap!"

That said, here are some of the songs you can expect to hear on our eleventh album, Real Men Wear Kilts:
  1. Loch Lomond
  2. Follow Prince Charlie
  3. My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose
  4. Ye Jacobites By Name
  5. Bonnie Jean
  6. Donald, Where's Your Drunken Scotsman?
  7. Flower of Scotland
  8. Jock Stuart (A Man Who Wears A Kilt Every Day)
  9. Mary Mac
  10. Skye Boat Song
  11. Auld Lang Syne
  12. Seven Drunken Nights
  13. Oor Hamlet
  14. Green Grow the Rashes
  15. Garry Owen Set
Yes. There are more songs, but I don't know all of them yet.

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posted by Marc Gunn @ Thursday, February 22, 2007

 

2 Comments:

At 3:11 PM, utilikilt said...

I've been hearing about that band a bit lately.

 
At 10:56 AM, Anonymous said...

Yeah, they are really doing well, I have been listening for...oh goodness, going on 2 or 3 years now. Glad I found them.

 

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