Since forming in the early 1990's, the Old Blind Dogs have stood on the cutting edge of Scotland’s roots revival. The band has developed its own trademark style with energetic mix of songs and tunes. Dynamic percussion, polished vocals, soaring fiddle and stirring pipes fuel the delicately-phrased melodies and traditional songs. The Dogs now sixteen years old have release over ten albums and have toured extensively around the globe.
“A Scots neo-traditional super group, with a bracingly modern musical attack.”
(Montreal Gazette)
"The skill, talent and verve with which they played, belied their laddishness and the crowd responded with thunderous applause. Folk is the new rock and roll."
(Evening News).
“The Old Blind Dogs play with a compelling energy and intoxicating rhythm, players and audience seem to share a wild ecstasy of emotion.”
(The Scotsman)
"Old Blind Dogs have mastered the tricky art of innovating within a musical tradition while faithfully revealing its essence."
(Acoustic Guitar)
"Old Blind Dogs bring freshness and colour to acoustic music steeped in centuries of Scottish folklore and history."
(Los Angeles Times)
Their latest album "Four On The Floor" picked up the IAP Best Celtic CD award in 2007 also that year they walked away with the Best Band Award in the BBC Scots Trad Music Awards.
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Poem 162 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001
Where traditions are not so rare; Sea, country and works scent the air; A multitude of monuments, Planted tubs and patterned pavements.
The longish pedestrian malls; The remnants of defensive walls; Historic buildings are a gauge Of the respect for heritage.
Wheat, rape and pines in the fields; Estuaries guarded by shields; Long sandy beaches and wide scenes; Romantic-ruin go-betweens.
Rivers in parts licked by trees, Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries, And crossed by practical delights - Varied spans, forming pleasing sights.
Fine churches headed at Durham; Football kits ad infinitum; Kept castles - one for study; Masonry behind masonry.
And, with moulding-works out that way, It’s somewhere for a longer stay..?
Thank you for the wonderful evening & birthday song, your talented gifts