This wonderful book HAS been mentioned before, but everytime I pick it up for a quick perusal, I'm so impressed that I want to let folks know about it. Written by sometime Mudcatter Ewan McVicar, it documents the lives and music of many Glasgow (and related) singers, sessions, 'folk-pubs', and songs. An added bonus is excellently drawn caricatures of the principals, by John Gahagan.

It begins with tails of folks like Morris Blythman who encouraged a whole generation of singers to write "that one song" you've got in you, through very familiar names to folks who I'd never heard of....to folks who moved to Toronto that I later became friends with.

It ends with the influx of the "instrumental sessions" era, in which a lot of the ballad singers feel they got "pushed out". McVicar even details some (tongue in cheek...I think) ways to counteract the fiddlers' invasion.

Great book....appears to be published by Glasgow libraries Press. Don't have any "ordering information"...and it may be out of print.

Anyone else read it?

Cheers

Rick