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Good sampler of modern Scottish folk music

Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com | ...in Middle America | 08/22/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"A nice sampler from Battlefield Band-leader Robin Morton's Temple Records label... Plenty of instrumentals, on harp, pipes, and fiddle, as well as a song or two tucked in the crevices. Temple artists tend to divide themselves between starker, more traditionalist recordings, and slightly sweetened (and in some cases, one might say saccharine) efforts. Should Celtic artists be allowed to use synthesizers? Perhaps this is not for me to decide. But the dreaded keyboards make only intermittent appearances on this disc-- overall a nice sampling of what this label has to offer, including the Battlefielders Alan Reid and others as a band, and playing solo, Mac-Talla and more...)"