Searching for name of the artist (Scottish)-found!

Subject: RE: Searching for name of the artist (Scottish)
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 27 Jun 15 - 10:15 AM

Yes to what Megan L suggests, assuming she means 'thread title'...;-)

Maybe, if you can't track down this particular artist :-( you could ask what similar artists mudcatters would suggest. Apart from these three examples at the moment we don't know what sort of / names of other music you enjoy or reject.

My hunch is that the recordings are a few decades old and not many people in the whole world will know of him now.

And I'll ask again, can you or have you gone back through your browser history PAGE BY PAGE round the time you think you downloaded these tracks?

Subject: RE: Searching for name of the artist (Scottish)
From: Megan L
Date: 27 Jun 15 - 11:08 AM

ACH Freddy yer just pikin own a quiet innocent wee wifie noo ;)

Subject: RE: Searching for name of the artist (Scottish)
From: GUEST,Anne Neilson
Date: 27 Jun 15 - 11:15 AM

I was niggled by the thought that it might be Watt Nicoll -- a Scottish singer and writer of (mainly) comic songs in the late 60s and 70s. I was never familiar enough with his repertoire to recognise these tracks posted here, but there is some material on Youtube.

After a while he seemed to disappear from the scene, but I believe he went to the US and trained as a motivational speaker (and maybe even a hypnotist?), working there for many years. Within the past three or four years he reappeared in Britain with the focus on his consultancy work.

I tried to look him up on Wikipedia but didn't get too far….

Subject: RE: Searching for name of the artist (Scottish)
From: GUEST,kenny
Date: 27 Jun 15 - 12:16 PM

Sorry Anne - fairly certain it's not Watt Nicoll, but a good suggestion. No Dundee enough ! He was known professionally as "The Man", and I believe at one point was brought in to motivate the Scottish football team at a World Cup. No' one of his most successful results, I think.
The mystery continues..................

Subject: RE: Searching for name of the artist (Scottish)
From: GUEST,flintcount
Date: 28 Jun 15 - 09:25 AM

This is unbelieveable. I have searched all the places on my computer or history in my browser - nothing... Thank you for your help. I can only wait, nothing more.

Subject: RE: Searching for name of the artist (Scottish)
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Jun 15 - 12:38 PM

How did the they get on your computer? Check yr emails?

Subject: RE: Searching for name of the artist (Scottish)
From: GUEST,Kenny B Sans Kuki
Date: 29 Jun 15 - 09:52 AM

If its 1970s sounds as if it could be Alex Campbell although cant find anything in his discography..... the Dakota nomads could be a red herring

Subject: RE: Searching for name of the artist (Scottish)
From: Effsee
Date: 29 Jun 15 - 11:09 AM

That is NOT Alex Campbell! Sounds like fake Scot to me.

Subject: RE: Searching for name of the artist (Scottish)
From: GUEST,Kenny B sans kuki
Date: 29 Jun 15 - 04:02 PM

Ah Ha
Oh well that certainly rules out Ewan McColl

In the same age group could it be Archie Fisher, he has recorded with a plerothra of faces, places and styles , peut etre?
Also could be the kind of song the Battllefield band would do ... they wer in the states around the 70s
This the best I can do with the words so far. Corrections invited
Looks like a updated /sanitised version of Matt McGinns "Heilan man"

WHISKY DRINKIN' MAN

If you are a tourist
Or just passin thro
You'll need eyes in the back o yer heid
Tae see me comin thro

He'll never gie in
The whisky drinkin man
Wi his bagpipes on his shoulder
He serenades hi crew.... His clan

He'll watch ye fae the hilltops
He'll watch yer every move
You'll get nae peace
Till we're finished wi you

He'll never gie in
The whisky drinkin man
Wi his bagpipes on his shoulder
he serenades hi clan.... His clan


Get yersel some distance      ?
Gie yersel a chance    ?
Once ye hear the bagpipes play
Ye'll ken i'm comin doon

He'll never gie in
The whisky drinkin man
Wi his bagpipes on his shoulder
He serenades hi clan.... His clan

Subject: RE: Searching for name of the artist (Scottish)
From: GUEST,Anne Neilson
Date: 29 Jun 15 - 04:47 PM

And it's NOT Archie Fisher -- or Battlefield.

The style is more punchy and vigorous, along the lines of Gaberlunzie (although they were a duo, rather than a solo turn).
And the text is more direct/less subtle than anyone Scottish would expect from the two performers named.

Subject: RE: Searching for name of the artist (Scottish)
From: GUEST,Chris Wright
Date: 30 Jun 15 - 01:08 AM

Pretty sure it's the band that go by the name 'Longshot Nelson and the Disjoints', who seem to be a contemporary band, despite the retro sound. How did I figure it out? Answer: I spent fifteen seconds on Google looking for a band that does a lot of Matt McGinn covers... Here are a couple of their other tracks for comparison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI7dOwdRW84

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS1HygpvSnE

And their facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/longshotnelsonandthedisjoints

Subject: RE: Searching for name of the artist (Scottish)
From: GUEST,Anne Neilson
Date: 30 Jun 15 - 03:12 AM

Chris, I think you've cracked it -- but I begin to wonder about the purpose of the original post…...

Subject: RE: Searching for name of the artist (Scottish)
From: GUEST,Dave
Date: 30 Jun 15 - 04:18 AM

Thats a bit of a find. A mixture of covers, traditional, and his own stuff. Listen free then download for 50p per track. They are from Ayrshire, and maybe slightly bonkers. Flintcount has done us, and hopefully them, a favour.

Subject: RE: Searching for name of the artist (Scottish)
From: GUEST,Kenny B Sans Kuki
Date: 30 Jun 15 - 07:22 AM

Thanks Chris well googled
Listened to the tracks ... could be ive written on their face book page to ask

Slight thread drift
I sometimes brainstorm w remotely possible answers in the hope that my good humoured team members will contradict me with the right answers and it has a roughly 60% success rate by triggering the reply "thats nonsense" its "xxxxx" from the hidden depths of their memories.

Subject: RE: Searching for name of the artist (Scottish)
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 30 Jun 15 - 10:55 AM

I'm struggling to get my head round this.

'Creative Recluse' at
nelsonschainsaws.tumblr.com/ says he is... "Also known as JB Nelson, Sleepy Eyes Nelson and Longshot Nelson."
It would be interesting to know what his real name is.
I wonder if anyone in Scotland has seen him performing?
There are vids of him at the State Bar Glasgow & Jazz Bar Edinburgh(see his YT uploads page)

'Sleepy Eyes' Nelson seems to do American bluesey tracks
www.facebook.com/sleepynelson
'Longshot' Nelson does Scottish tracks
'JB' Nelson does Gothic Americana,Dark Country,Alternative, Experimental stuff.

and also lists
The God Channel : Experimental - Noise - Industrial
Sundowner    : Synth Pop - Industrial - Dark Soundtrack

He operates a small record label   cheapwinerecords.bandcamp.com/
which lists other artists. I wonder how many are him too. I have asked btw.

His YouTube page has an 'About' saying he is base in Scotland www.youtube.com/user/nelsonschainsaws/about
& lots of uploads.
Here are a few for comparison :
Early, as an un-named band, with melodica The Stranger

Longshot Nelson Matt McGinn Cover - The Rolling Hills O' The Borders -

Sleepy Eyes Nelson i couldn't buy beer

JB Nelson gunsmoke trail

Sleepy Eyes Nelson & Slate Dump(who, to me, looks like it might be the guy in 'The Stranger' ?) Down The Line Blues -

Subject: RE: Searching for name of the artist (Scottish)
From: GUEST,Kenny B Sans Kuki
Date: 30 Jun 15 - 12:53 PM

Many thanks to Chris..... Mudcat can be sometimes be equalled but rarely beaten!

Got a reply from Logshot Nelson and the Disjoints
on facebook and the tracks are definitely theirs and also they are genuine Ayrshire Scotsmen

Subject: RE: Searching for name of the artist (Scottish)
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Jun 15 - 01:40 PM

Pretty sure it's the band that go by the name 'Longshot Nelson and the Disjoints', who seem to be a contemporary band, despite the retro sound. How did I figure it out? Answer: I spent fifteen seconds on Google looking for a band that does a lot of Matt McGinn covers... Here are a couple of their other tracks for comparison:
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Subject: RE: Searching for name of the artist (Scottish)-found!
From: Stanron
Date: 01 Jul 15 - 01:01 PM

So this whole thread has been a covert promo for a 'contemporary band' with it's own recording label. Am I wrong in thinking that legs have been pulled?

Subject: RE: Searching for name of the artist (Scottish)-found!
From: GUEST,flintcount
Date: 03 Jul 15 - 02:48 AM

And after 7 months... Finally. I don't know how to thank you all. I don't know what to say, because I'm completely stunned... You've done great job. That's interesting, because i've found him last night accidentaly and decided to write here about him. But when i saw that one day before you've found it too... It's just impossible.

Thank you for help. Thank you for something, that i can't descript by words. It's one of the biggest treasures i have.

Kind regards,
Flintcount from Poland