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Scottish Instrumentalists
Ian Powrie
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Ian Powrie (1923-2011) was born at Strathardle, near Blairgowrie in Perthshire. His father, Will Powrie, was an accomplished melodeon player, and recorded several excellent sides for Beltona during the early 1930s, and some with his very young son Ian in 1933. At age twelve Ian was playing in his father's dance band, but on piano accordion! In 1949 he formed his first band, this time playing fiddle while his brother Bill played accordion. Some of Ian Powrie's recordings are listed below.
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The Ian Powrie Band Show (Waverley ZLP 2058, 1965)
Side One:
Loch Earn/The Blackberry Bush/Far Frae Hame; The Flower of the Quern; Lochaber Gathering/Tam Bain's Lum; Harmonica Tricks; Dr Bob Smith/Rosedale/Portree Bay; The Heather on the Hills; Dr Morrison's Seven Thistles/Edinburgh Castle
Side Two:
St Johnstoun Reel/Lass o' Patie's Mill/Dr Robertson's Reel; Bandboys; Eilidh/Leaving Stornoway/Sine Bhan; Seaside Schottische; Dr Ross's 50th Welcome to the Argyllshire Gathering/Sweet Maid of Mull; Bovaglie's Plaid; The Marchioness of Huntly/Cape Wrath/Stornoway Castle/My Pretty Maid
Ian Powrie (fiddle), Jimmy Blue (accordion), Mickie Ainsworth (accordion), Pam Brough (piano and vocal), Dave Barclay (bass), Arthur Easson (drums)
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Ian Powrie On Stage (Waverley ZLP 2066, 1966)
Side One:
Merry Boys of Greenland/Willafijord/Leveneep Head; The Peat Fire Flame; Coilsfield House; Edgfauld House/Ballochmyle Brig/The Rookery; Wee Willie Winkie; Spic and Span; Old Maid in a Garret; James McInnes Esq/Pottinger's Reel
Side Two:
Stool of Repentance/David Ross/The Irish Washerwoman; He's Aye Kissing Me; triste Sourire; Miss Graham of Inchbraikie; Shetland Two-Step; The Road to the Isles; The Bonnie Lass of Bon-Accord
Ian Powrie (fiddle), Jimmy Blue (accordion), Mickie Ainsworth (accordion), Pam Brough (piano and vocal), Dave Barclay (bass), Arthur Easson (drums)
with Bill McCue (vocals) and Sheila Paton (vocals)
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Friday Night Barn Dance (Waverley ZLP 2082, 1966)
Side One:
Gay Gordons/Earl of Dalhousie; Queen mary; Johnny has Gone for a Soldier; Circassian Circle/Shetland Fiddler/The Peerie Hoose; Exactly Like You/Hello Dolly/Yellow Rose of Texas; Sandy's Holiday
Side Two:
Dashing White Sergeant/Babes In the Wood/O'er the Hills; I'll Gang Nae Mair/Greenwoodside/Corriechoillie; The Last Thing on my Mind; Leaving Lismore/I Left My Dearie/Gorrie Grobham's Galley/Morag of Dunvegan; Skip to my Lou; My Love She's But a Lassie Yet/Persian Dance/Coronation March; Bonnie Maggie Tamson; Blaydon Races/Nelly Gray
Ian Powrie and his Band with
Anne & Laura Brand, Pibroch MacKenzie, Bobby Colgan and Jean Brooks. Recorded live at Beanston Mains Farm, Haddington, June 1966.
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Ian Powrie's Farewell to Scotland (Waverley ZLP 2087, 1967)
Side One:
Ian Powrie's Farewell to Scotland; The Crusader's March/Lyndhurst; Tarholm Brig/Craighall/Stirling Castle/Locheil's Welcome to Glasgow; Margaret-Anne Robertson; The Tushker/St Ann's/Callum Donaldson/Dancing the Baby; The Braes of Breadalbane/Dora MacLeod/Campbelltown Kiltie Ball; Mull of the Cold, High Bens
Side Two:
West Kirkton/Echoes of Oban; Mrs Adie/Loch Ordie; Silver City Waltz; The Duke of Perth/The Gadie Rins/Caddam Wood; Gloomy Winter; John Carmichael's Farewell to Scotland; The Skyline of Skye
Ian Powrie and his Band
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The Best of the Ian Powrie Band (Talisman STAL 5001, c1968)
Side One:
St Johnstoun Reel/Lass o' Patie's Mill/Dr Robertson's Reel; Margaret-Anne Robertson; The Lochaber Gathering/Tam Bain's Lum; Stool of Repentance/David Ross/The Irish Washerwoman; Bandboys; Bonnie Lass o' Bon-Accord
Side Two:
The Tushker/St Ann's/Callum Donaldson/Dancing the Baby; Gloomy Winter; Silver City Waltz; Old Maid in a Garret; The Flower of the Quern; Merry Boys of Greenland/Willafijord/Leveneep Head
Ian Powrie (fiddle), Jimmy Blue (accordion), Mickie Ainsworth (accordion), Pam Brough (piano and vocal), Dave Barclay (bass), Arthur Easson (drums)
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When Auld Friends Meet (Waverley SZLP 2137, 1974)
Side One:
Jimmy Shand's Comps to Ian Powrie/10th HLI Crossing the Rhine; Big Dougal/margaret's Fancy/Carnie's Canter; 79th's Farewell to Gibralter; Bonnie Isle of Gletness/Sunset Over Foula/Rana's Voe; Atholl & Breadalbane Gathering/Lord Elgin of Broomhall; O Gin I Were a Baron's Heir
Side Two:
St Andrew's Parade/Harveston Castle/Breadalbane Reel/Bobby Watson; Bill Black's Mirk/John Stephen of Chance Inn/Ian Powrie's Comps to Willie Hunter; Maclean of Pennycross/Sprig of Ivy; Soft Lowland Tongue/Annie Laurie/My Nannie's Awa'/I Lo'ed Nae a Lassie but Ane; Aunice Gillies's Farewell to Loch Gilphead/John Bain Mackenzie; My Ain Folk
Ian Powrie (fiddle), Jimmy Shand (accordion, melodeon), Pam Brough (piano), Dave Barclay (bass), Arthur Easson (drums)
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His Fiddle and his Friends (Waverley SZLP 2144, 1975)
Side One:
Flowers of Edinburgh/The Spinning Wheel; A Piper's Prayer; Miss Laura Andrews/Ian Powrie's Comps to Angus Fitchet; The Music of Spey; Soir de Paris; Arran Hills; Millbrae/Mickie Ainsworth/The Dawn Hornpipe/Jean's Reel
Side Two:
Loch Maree/Ian Powrie's Comps to Sir Thomas Wardle/Murdo's Wedding; Leila/The Massacre of Glencoe; Mrs Ian Powrie of West Kirkton/Angus Fitchet's Comps to Ian Powrie/Lady Charlotte Campbell; Beverley Wood; McNeil of Ugadale/Mrs and Mrs Alec Ross; The Earl of Dalhousie; Waltzing Matilda
Ian Powrie (fiddle), John Huband (accordion), Pam Brough (piano, organ), Stan Saunders (bass), Billy Thom (drums), Frank Henery (guitar)
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At Home (Grassmere GRALP 27, 1988)
Side One:
Ian Powrie's Comps to Sir Thomas Wardle/Jimmy Shand's Welcome to Corrieburn; A Lass from Glasgow Town/Lunan Bay/Mary Shaw; Sir Kenneth Alexander/The Clan McColl; Mrs Hamilton of Pencaitland; Scotty Wilson/Donald MacLellan of Rothesay; Jimmy and Mickie; The Wild Flowers of Barra; Highland Cathedral
Side Two:
Gaelic Reel/In the Gloamin'/Tigh Na Gorm; Mackworth/Kemmel Hill; Catherine & John Fraser's Diamond Wedding; The Old Scottish Waltz; Kenny Thomson's Comps to Ian Powrie/A Tribute to Stan Hamilton/Peerie Willie; Ellenbrook/The Black Boy/Georgina Catherine MacDonald/C M Hall; Annie's Song/Country Roads/Thank God I'm a Country Boy; The Crags of Tumbledown Mountain
Ian Powrie (fiddle), Jimmy Blue (accordion), Mickie Ainsworth (accordion), Joan Blue (piano), Paul Clancy (piano), Dave Barclay (bass), Jack Cooper (drums), James Lindsay (synthesiser)
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Legend of the Fiddle: The IanPowrie Story (1996)
The Ainsworth March/The Laird Of Thrums/Andy Renwick's Ferret; The Banks Of Locheil/Duncan Johnstone; The Provost Of Forgandenny/Jimmy's Aye Diggin'/Sands Of Murness/Billy Thom's Reel; Lady Elizabeth; Willie Atkinson/Leila's Garden/Captain Keeler; The Dark Island; Memories Of Bobby MacLeod/Christina McNair Caskie; Margaret's Waltz/Heather Blossom Special; Alex MacArthur Of Biggar/Lady Charlotte Campbell/Peerie Willie; Our Highland Queen; The Cambridge Hornpipe/Hoo Dinnae Ye Mair/The Morayers/The Laird Of Corrieburn; Briony; David John Powrie/Calum John Builder; Will Powrie, The Angus Ploughman; Back To The Hills/Catchin' Rabbits; Lament For Will Starr/The Auchterarder; Rural Jig/ Margaret Cook's Fancy/The Ainster Fisherman
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