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Brian McNeill (born April 6, 1950) is a Scottish traditional musician from Falkirk, Scotland.A multi-instrumentalist playing guitar, fiddle, viola, mandolin, concertina, and hurdy-gurdy, Brian McNeill was a violinist for the Battlefield Band from 1969 to 1990, and played with the supergroup Clan Alba from 1992 to 1994. He also has a longstanding solo career, and is a frequent contributor to The Thistle & Shamrock, a weekly Celtic music program produced by NPR. Many of his songs are historical ballads, including most of his 2009 album The Baltic tae Byzantium.Solo albums: Monksgate (1978) Unstrung Hero (1985) The Busker and the Devil's Only Daughter (1985) The Back O' the North Wind (1991) Horses for Courses (with Tom Mc Donagh, 1994) No Gods (1995) Stage By Stage (with Iain Mac Kintosh, 1995) To Answer the Peacock (1999) Live and Kicking (with Iain MacKintosh, 2000) The Baltic tae Byzantium: Tales of the Scots in Europe (2009) The Crew o' the Copenhagen (with Drones And Bellows, 2010) The Falkirk Music Pot (2015) | |
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Concept Album: The Back o' the North Wind and The Baltic tae Byzantium both discuss aspects of Scottish history, especially the diaspora. The earlier album is about Scottish immigrants and their descendants in the United States, the later one discusses Scottish relations with mainland Europe. | |
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Pun-Based Title: His second album, Unstrung Hero, a pun on musical instrument strings and the phrase "unsung hero". | |
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Funetik Aksent | |
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Funetik Aksent: McNeill writes many of his songs in Scots dialect, not Gaelic but not conventional English, either. Even the album titles sometimes use this, c.f. The Baltic tae Byzantium ("The Baltic to Byzantium"). | |
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Private Military Contractors | |
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Private Military Contractors: "The Gothenburg Reel" is dedicated to Scots mercenaries who fought for King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. | |
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Parental Marriage Veto | |
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Parental Marriage Veto: The third verse of "The Baltic tae Byzantium" has the protagonist's Croatian girlfriend's father try to convince her to find a richer husband than some roving Scottish trader, but the protagonist wins him over by saying "the Baltic and Byzantium were mine." | |
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And the Adventure Continues | |
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And the Adventure Continues: The last verse of "The Baltic tae Byzantium" has the protagonist become afflicted with wanderlust again, and saddle up his horse and load up a peddler's pack to start Walking the Earth again. | |
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Slave Galley | |
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Slave Galley: "A Far North Land" notes that the Rev. John Knox spent time as a galley slave to the French. | |
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Sinister Minister | |
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Sinister Minister: "A Far North Land" portrays the Rev. John Knox as a religious zealot little better than Queen Mary Stuart, asking in the second verse: His "My Bonnie Yew Tree" also speaks of John Knox: | |
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Language of Love | |
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Language of Love: The third verse of "The Baltic tae Byzantium" has the Scottish protagonist trying to woo a girl he falls in love with in Croatia. | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
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"Not So Different" Remark: Mary of Scotland and the Rev. John Knox in "A Far North Land". McNeill calls them "different tongues for different lies" who both used Scotland for personal gain, and as always it was the common folk who paid the price for their conflict. | |
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Hillbilly Moonshiner | |
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Hillbilly Moonshiner: To hear "The Best o' the Barley" tell it, Brian's great-uncle James McNeill made moonshine on the side during Prohibition. | |
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Love at First Sight | |
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Love at First Sight: "Bring the Lassie Hame" portrays the meeting of his father and mother in post-WWII Austria as this. | |
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Heaven Above | |
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Heaven Above: "Muir and the Master Builder" states that "God lives above the redwoods" that inspired song subject John Muir to become one of the world's first effective conservationists. | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Uptown Girl: "Bring the Lassie Hame" is all about how his parents met. His father was a baker's son who served in the British Army as an engineer in World War II. His mother was an Austrian upper-class woman who worked for the Allies as an interpreter, having learned English in college. They met in Styria during the postwar occupation, and apparently their courtship included him teaching her to drive in a three-ton army truck. | |
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Rags to Riches | |
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Rags to Riches: Andrew Carnegie in "Steel Man". | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: Downplayed with Andrew Carnegie in "Steel Man". He's both praised for his generosity at the end of his life, and cursed for working his employees to the bone and paying them next to nothing in order to advance himself. | |
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Blasphemous Boast | |
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Blasphemous Boast: In "Ewen and the Gold", about a Scotsman who spent his life Walking the Earth with Gold Fever: | |
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