Essential

Dougie MacLean | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 3, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Blix Street
• ASIN: B002PQ7JT2
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,389 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #76 in Music > Folk > British & Celtic Folk > Scottish Folk

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Marching Mystery

2. Ca' the Yowes

3. Singing Land

4. Rite of Passage

5. Mr. & Mrs. MacLean of Snaigow

6. Not Lie Down

7. Caledonia

8. Another Time

9. Holding Back

10. Home

See all 13 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Ready For The Storm

2. Not Look Down

3. She Will Find Me

4. Broken Wings

5. Garden Valley

6. Turning Away

7. The Gael

8. Gloomy Winter

9. We ll Be Together Again

10. Scythe Song

See all 13 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Discovery!, March 18, 2011

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Betsy M. Watson - See all my reviews
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I'd never heard of Dougie MacLean until I caught the tail end of the NPR program, Thistle and Shamrock, where he was the guest. I immediately fell in love with his voice. The next day I searched online for some of his CDs and decided on "The Essential." It's a two-disc CD and I absolutely love it! On the radio show, host Fiona Ritchie made reference to the fact that Dougie's been called "the James Taylor of Ireland." He's definitely of that caliber.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Heart Warming - demands listening, September 25, 2010

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McLeod8th (Hessen) - See all my reviews

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People who like Scotland and her typical music sooner or later come across the name "Dougie MacLean". He wrote and sang many songs and ballads - best known probably "Caledonia" and "The Gael" (the latter being used in the movie "The Last of the Mohicans" with Daniel Day Lewis).

This double CD selection contains two hours of 26 wonderful songs - and many catchy tunes!
Most of the lyrics are inspired by Mr. MacLean's rural upbringing in Perthshire like the Scythe Song (...to use a scythe/play a guitar "cannot be learned inside a day"...) or The Storm (about a sailor's live and his constant fight with the sea) or from tales collected during his travels around the world (Garden Valley/ an Immigrant's ways of life, Rite of Passage/ teaching young ones the Aborigines' life) or love songs (This love will carry). One usually likes some songs better than others - same here - but Dougie MacLean's voice is always heart warming, soft yet strong, and also the instrumental pieces are a joy - in short: "this music demands listening". (For further info as well as for the lyrics check [...].

By the way: "The Gael" in a very modern and rock-like version can be found on the Album "Parallel Tracks" of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards" - I promise you will not be able to keep your feet still!
Parallel Tracks

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Dougie Maclean, January 5, 2012

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F. Williams - See all my reviews
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Wonderful product, absolutely touching songs in the Celtic mode, if you are a Mary Black fan or perhaps Celtic Thunder affecianados you'll love this. Wonderful service as well, would deal again.