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Released on May24th 2008 on Watercolour Music.

“Just One Umbrella” is the second CD from Queen Anne's Revenge and features 17 new songs from the song-writing partnership of Findlay Napier and Nick Turner.

Originally started as a purely writing project, the songs have now been carried into the concert hall by Findlay's new band –“The Bar Room Mountaineers”. Their recent gig in Edinburgh with Findlay fronting the band was described:

“His overall stylistic palette, and that of the band's arrangements, took in elements of folk, rock, pop, country and even a touch of jazz, united by a voice whose rugged, vibrant, superbly commanding accents remain entirely his own.”

The second QAR CD was crewed by Paul Jennings (Old Blind Dogs/ Croft No 5) on drums , Duncan Lyall (Box Club/ Fred Morrison) on electric and upright bass, Douglas Miller (The Bar Room Mountaineers) on piano/harmonium and organ, with contributions from Rick Taylor and Tom MacNiven (Brass),Gillian Frame (Fiddle and Backing Vocals), and Mary Ann Kennedy (Clarsach).

Their trade mark idiosyncratic themes, unfettered by the usual band politics, range from an incorrectly sexed tortoise (When Harry met Charlie), to domestic violence (Black and Blue) and over-requited love (Cut Me Off).

Cover AW and design by Schmoo.

Tracks

• Just One Umbrella
• Here We Go Again
• They're Playing Our Song
• The Note
• He's Broken Everything
• A Son of the Circus
• Blizzard in a Glass Paperweight
• Just Me and You
• When Harry Met Charlie
• Cut Me Off
• Carraig Fhada
• The Point of No Return
• Black and Blue
• Nothing but Time On Her Hands

Bonus Tracks:

• What Is the World Coming Too?
• Let Them Fall
• The Boys That Fly

Price: £12.56

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Released on March 1st 2006 on Watercolour Music.

Eponymous first album from the songwriting partnership of Findlay Napier and Nick Turner.

Fourteen tracks recorded and produced by Nick Turner at Watercolour Music, containing the talents of Davy Cattanach on drums, Duncan Lyle on bass, Douglas Miller on keys with contributions from Catherine MacLennan as guest vocalist, Chaz Stewart on electric guitar,Gillian Frame and Mary Ann Kennedy on Fiddle and BV's. Brass from Rick Taylor and Ryan Quigley.

Cover AW and photgraphy by Nick Turner

Tracks include

• Be careful what you wish for
• Crocodile
• Low visibility
• George
• Mo's all night café
• Out all night
• You make it hard to stay
• The old flame
• Plastic Jesus
• Ship in a bottle
• He's such a sweetie
• One for me
• The owl and the pussycat
• A single rose
  

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Out All Night -Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers

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Released on October 13th 2008. Review from Fish Records:

While Findlay Napier is well known on the live Scottish folk music scene, this fantastic band project looks likely to bring to him to much wider attention both in the UK and much further a field.
The musicians all come from a folk background, and elements of folk are easy to identify in the instrumentation and in the 3 tracks with traditional roots, but that only tells half the story of an album that is dominated by songs of everyday people and urban lives full of character, personality and effortless charm.
The producer Angus Lyon has done a fantastic job of capturing the four musicians, and the energy and vibrancy of a live performance; I've not seen (or heard) the band live, but its obvious how they would sound. Findlay's guitar is rhythmic and dynamic, Gillian Frame's fiddle work adds colour and details to the songs, and it's all held together by the keyboards of Douglas Millar and the cajon and percussion of Paul Jennings; Napier takes on the main vocal duties, but all the members share backing vocals, in particular Frame who adds a huge amount over the 12 tracks.
The quality of the arrangements should not be understated, considering the relatively simple instrumental set up, there are some beautiful details as the tracks go from quiet reflective songs to pretty much out and out folk rock, and the band handle these and all points in between with real élan.
While identifiably Scottish, especially in Napier's vocal delivery, the album is dripping in influences from outside of the UK, in amongst the folk you can spot bluegrass, country and elements of more contemporary music.
After the impact of the stellar musicianship and ear-candy melodies, you come to the lyrics, and the partnership of Napier and Nick Turner has put together a brilliant collection of songs. 'He's Such A Sweetie' has the humour and impact of Loudon Wainwright at his best; 'George' is a chorus led character study full of life and powerful imagery; and the traditional 'The Battle of Corrymuckloch' is a beautifully arranged and performed song as that's as fresh as any traditional track in recent memory.
It's a shame the booklet doesn't have the lyrics printed, but that really is nit-picking, and the only blemish on an outstanding album with a real heart.
In a year of high profile releases from the biggest folk names in the UK and the US, Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers are going to finish near the top of the pile with a brilliant album that that brings together a fantastic writing team, a charismatic singer and three superb musicians; the result is a dynamic, colourful and vibrant collection of modern songs with a traditional twist. Exceptional.
Neil Pearson, September 17th, 2008

Tracks include

• George
• He's Such A Sweetie
• Mo's All Night Café
• The Battle Of Corrymuckloch
• Out All Night
• Point Of No Return
• Wee Drappie O't
• The Note
• Lambkin
• Son Of The Circus
• Irina's Waltz
• Just Me And You

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Price: £13.00

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This fine band have come up with a cracker of a CD  in Luminosity. Twelve tracks featuring a great mix of songs and tune sets. Gillian, Finlay and Hamish are all fine singers and do justice to such songs as Glenlogie (Findlay), Nine Stone Rig (Gillian) and The Brewer Lad (Hamish). Their arrangements are well thought out and in piper and whistler Ali Hutton, Back of the Moon  have a recruited a very able replacement for Simon McKerrell.

Gillian Frame: fiddle, viola, vocals. Ali Hutton: border pipes, whistles, bodhran. Findlay Napier: guitars, vocals. Hamish Napier: piano, flutes, vocals.With guests: Rick Taylor, trombone and Christine Hanson: cello.

Tracks Include

• Lumsden's Rant
• Glenlogie
• Nine Stone Rig
• Eggs in the Kitchen
• Ship in a Bottle
• Joey Beauty's
• Hawp!
• The Mill Mill O
• GoodFellas
• The Brewer Lad
• The Final Trawl
• Voodoo Chili
  

Turning The Tide-Jim Hunter Watercolour Music SCOTCD022

Jim Hunter's first record for Scottish Alt-Country imprint Scotsville Records. Featuring a number of co-writen songs with Nick Turner as well as a Findlay Napier cover. Jim has collected a band of musicians perfectly suited to his material and retained the strong narrative in his work. Recorded at Watercolour Music and produced by Nick Turner, the record contains an extraordinary emotional range -from the soulful reminiscences of "Picture postcard" to the full blown band sound of "Heartbreak Train", all consolidated by Jim’s voice and powerful delivery.

Cover AW and photgraphy by Nick Turner and featuring Wendy Weatherbey, Brian MacAlpine, Jim Michie, The Session Clerks and many others.

Track Listing:

• Hold On
• Man Overboard
• The Sea is My Mistress
• Swallows Wing
• Ever The Angel
• Heartbreak Train
• Picture Postcard
• The Rope Is On The Willow
• The Sleep Of The Just
• Sanctuary*
  

Price: £13.00

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