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gogmagogWow, the Dougie MacLean* concert was really good. He does a very fun live show, and he seems genuinely funny and nice. Of course, he didn't have the seven-person band who plays with him on his albums, so it was just him and his guitar (well, except for the hand-free harmonica thing during "Feels So Near"), but it gave his songs a different vibe that I quite liked. (He played some from the album he just finished a couple of weeks ago, that hasn't come out yet.) He even had the audience belting out the chorus of pretty much every song! So I picked up one of his CDs and got him to sign it (and I also am gonna keep out an eye for his other CDs).
* For the record, I've been saying it all wrong - it's pronounced "Doogie MacLaine."
Anyway, in celebration I've put up for download the album versions of some of the songs he played at the concert! (Sorry, I had to use YouSendIt because I suck and have no web hosting.)
Talking With My Father - A pretty, kinda melancholy song he played really early on.
Feels So Near - One of the two songs by him I really loved before I went to the concert and was hoping he'd play. He did, so yay! If you only download one of his songs, this is probably the one you should get.
Not Lie Down - He played this in the second half. This was a song I like in the album version, but I thought the guitar-and-voice version was more powerful.
The Boatbuilders - OK, he told us the story behind this - apparently there was this rather unpleasant Scottish Presbyterian minister, Norman McLeod, who commanded his congregation to move from the Assynt Hills in Scotland to St. Anne's Bay in Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, then after about twenty years they abandoned it because he wanted to go to New Zealand, so they built boats and sailed there (it took six months for the first ship to get there, then five more followed) and they founded the town of Waipu there. The chorus is really pretty. (This is one song I actually like the album version better.)
Caledonia - The other song I was hoping he'd play. He wrote it a long time ago - like 15 years ago - and it's become, as he put it (in a very Scottish accent), "a monster." See, it's become kind of an unofficial Scottish anthem, and while clearly it's nice having one of his songs become so popular I imagine it can't be very enjoyable having to play "Caledonia" at every concert. Still, it's a beautiful song, and I can't imagine anyone who wouldn't like it.
* For the record, I've been saying it all wrong - it's pronounced "Doogie MacLaine."
Anyway, in celebration I've put up for download the album versions of some of the songs he played at the concert! (Sorry, I had to use YouSendIt because I suck and have no web hosting.)
Talking With My Father - A pretty, kinda melancholy song he played really early on.
Feels So Near - One of the two songs by him I really loved before I went to the concert and was hoping he'd play. He did, so yay! If you only download one of his songs, this is probably the one you should get.
Not Lie Down - He played this in the second half. This was a song I like in the album version, but I thought the guitar-and-voice version was more powerful.
The Boatbuilders - OK, he told us the story behind this - apparently there was this rather unpleasant Scottish Presbyterian minister, Norman McLeod, who commanded his congregation to move from the Assynt Hills in Scotland to St. Anne's Bay in Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, then after about twenty years they abandoned it because he wanted to go to New Zealand, so they built boats and sailed there (it took six months for the first ship to get there, then five more followed) and they founded the town of Waipu there. The chorus is really pretty. (This is one song I actually like the album version better.)
Caledonia - The other song I was hoping he'd play. He wrote it a long time ago - like 15 years ago - and it's become, as he put it (in a very Scottish accent), "a monster." See, it's become kind of an unofficial Scottish anthem, and while clearly it's nice having one of his songs become so popular I imagine it can't be very enjoyable having to play "Caledonia" at every concert. Still, it's a beautiful song, and I can't imagine anyone who wouldn't like it.
