Classic Scottish Albums: Donovan - Sunshine Superman

CLASSIC SCOTTISH ALBUMS: DONOVAN - SUNSHINE SUPERMAN (320kbs-m4a/62mb/27mins)
BBC Radio Scotland broadcast: 23rd December 2018

Davie Scott speaks to Donovan and pals about the dippy, trippy Sunshine Superman album.

Manfred Mann - 5-4-3-2-1
Bob Dylan - Catch The Wind
Donovan - Catch The Wind
Donovan - Josie
Donovan - Colours
Donovan - Sunny Goodge Street
Th Animals - Boom Boom
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Fire
Donovan - Sunshine Superman
Donovan - Celeste
Donovan - Legend Of A Girl Child Linda
Donovan - Season Of The Witch
Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger & The Trinity - Season Of The Witch
Al Kooper & Mike Bloomfield - Season Of The Witch
Donovan - Three Kingfishers
Donovan - The Trip
Donovan - Sunshine Superman

Classic Scottish Albums: Gerry Rafferty - City To City

CLASSIC SCOTTISH ALBUMS: GERRY RAFFERTY - CITY TO CITY (320kbs-m4a/47mb/20mins)
BBC Radio Scotland broadcast: 30th August 2018

Davie Scott with the late Gerry Rafferty and the great Billy Connolly.

Gerry Rafferty - The Ark
Gerry Rafferty - City To City
Gerry Rafferty - Island
Gerry Rafferty - Waiting For The Day
Gerry Rafferty - Whatever's Written in Your Heart
Gerry Rafferty - Home And Dry
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
Gerry Rafferty - Mattie's Rag

Classic Scottish Albums: The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - NEXT

CLASSIC SCOTTISH ALBUMS: THE SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND - NEXT (320kbs-m4a/60mb/26mins)
BBC Radio Scotland broadcast: 16th August 2018

Davie Scott meets the remaining members of SAHB to recall the making of the NEXT album.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - The Faith Healer
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Giddy Up A Ding Dong
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Vambo Marble Eye
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Next (Live OGWT)
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Gang Bang
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - The Last Of The Teenage Idols
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - The Faith Healer (Live Reading)

Classic Scottish Albums: Average White Band - White Album

CLASSIC SCOTTISH ALBUMS: AVERAGE WHITE BAND - WHITE ALBUM (320kbs-m4a/60mb/26mins)
BBC Radio Scotland broadcast: 9th August 2018

Davie Scott celebrates the legacy of the Scottish funk sensation AWB.

Average White Band - Got The Love
Average White Band - Nothing You Can Do
Average White Band - You Got It
Average White Band - Pick Up The Pieces
Utah Saints - Love Song
Average White Band - Work To Do
Average White Band - Person To Person
Average White Band - I Just Can't Give You Up
Average White Band - Pick Up The Pieces

Classic Scottish Albums: Deacon Blue - Raintown

CLASSIC SCOTTISH ALBUMS: DEACON BLUE - RAINTOWN (320kbs-m4a/54mb/23mins)
BBC Radio Scotland broadcast: 22nd June 2018

Davie Scott celebrates Raintown with singer songwriter Ricky Ross and writer Ian Rankin.

Deacon Blue - Town To Be Blamed
Deacon Blue - Kings Of The Western World
Deacon Blue - Raintown
Deacon Blue - Loaded
Deacon Blue - Love's Great Fears
Deacon Blue - Dignity
Deacon Blue - Chocolate Girl

Classic Scottish Albums: John Martyn - Solid Air

CLASSIC SCOTTISH ALBUMS: JOHN MARTYN - SOLID AIR (320kbs-m4a/60mb/26mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 1st May 2018

Davie Scott reveals the stories behind classic Scottish albums.

In this episode, first broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 2006, Davie selects John Martyn's Solid Air. Released in 1973, The Glasgow-raised singer / songwriter's distinctive vocal style and stunning guitar playing combine to pay homage to friendship, love and life.

John Martyn - Over The Hill
John Martyn - Solid Air
John Martyn - I'd Rather Be The Devil
John Martyn - May You Never
John Martyn - May You Never (Live on The Old Grey Whistle Test)
John Martyn - The Easy Blues
John Martyn - Go Down Easy
John Martyn - Dreams By The Sea

Classic Scottish Albums: The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy

CLASSIC SCOTTISH ALBUMS: THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN - PSYCHOCANDY (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 26th May 2018

To complement the 6 Music Festival, taking place this year in Glasgow, we repeat highlights of a series in which musician Davie Scott reveals the stories behind classic Scottish albums.

In this episode, first broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 2010, Davie looks back at Psychocandy, the debut album by the Jesus and Mary Chain, released in 1985. With the help Janice Long, Bobby Gillespie and the famously-elusive Reid brothers themselves, Davie comes to the conclusion that teen angst never sounded so good... well certainly not from East Kilbride.

The Jesus And Mary Chain - Just Like Honey [Blanco Y Negro]
The Shangri‐Las - Remember (Walkin' In The Sand) [Instant]
The Velvet Underground - Heroin [Polygram]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Upside Down [Warner Bros.]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Taste The Floor [Strange Fruit]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - It's So Hard [Blanco Y Negro]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Taste Of Cindy [Blanco Y Negro]
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows [Capitol]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Cut Dead [Blanco Y Negro]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - In A Hole [Blanco Y Negro]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Just Like Honey [Blanco Y Negro]
The Shangri‐Las - Leader Of The Pack [Spectrum]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - The Living End [Blanco Y Negro]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Taste Of Cindy [Blanco Y Negro]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Never Understand [Blanco Y Negro]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - You Trip Me Up [Blanco Y Negro]
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Cut Dead [Blanco Y Negro]

Classic Scottish Albums: Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain

CLASSIC SCOTTISH ALBUMS: AZTEC CAMERA - HIGH LAND, HARD RAIN (320kbs-m4a/60mb/26mins)

BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 31st March 2017

To complement the 6 Music Festival in Glasgow, we repeat highlights of a series in which musician Davie Scott reveals the stories behind classic Scottish albums.

In this episode, first broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 2006, Davie Scott considers Aztec Camera's 1983 release High Land, Hard Rain, which blended infectious tunes and mature lyrics to create a debut with a very distinctive Scottish take on the world.

Classic Scottish Albums: Glasvegas - Glasvegas

CLASSIC SCOTTISH ALBUMS: GLASVEGAS - GLASVEGAS (320kbs-m4a/70mb/30mins)

BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 30th March 2017

To complement the 6 Music Festival, taking place this year in Glasgow, we repeat highlights of a series in which musician Davie Scott reveals the stories behind classic Scottish albums.

In this episode, first broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 2010 Davie tells the story of 'Glasvegas' - the debut album released by Glasvegas in 2008.

Classic Scottish Albums: Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever

CLASSIC SCOTTISH ALBUMS: ORANGE JUICE - YOU CAN'T HIDE YOUR LOVE FOREVER (320kbs-m4a/61mb/26mins)

BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 28th March 2017

To complement the 6 Music Festival, taking place this year in Glasgow, we repeat highlights of a series in which musician Davie Scott reveals the stories behind classic Scottish albums.

In this episode, first broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 2005, Davie Scott talks to Edwyn Collins and friends to reveal the remarkable stories about Orange Juice's 1982 classic, You Can't Hide Your Love Forever.

Classic Scottish Albums: Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat

CLASSIC SCOTTISH ALBUMS: AL STEWART - YEAR OF THE CAT (320kbs-m4a/123mb/54mins)

BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 25th March 2017

To complement the 6 Music Festival, taking place this year in Glasgow, we repeat highlights of a series in which musician Davie Scott reveals the stories behind classic Scottish albums.

In this episode, first broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 2011 Davie looks at Al Stewart's Year of the Cat, released in 1976.

We hear how its escapiosm resonated with UK listeners mired in strikes and unemployment. It was a far cry from Al Stewart's humble beginnings. As he tells it in one of his songs, "I came up to London when I was 19 with a corduroy jacket and a head full of dreams." A poetic singer-songwriter born in Glasgow, he moved to Dorset before falling in with the folk scene. So far, so Donovan, but then Al's story splinters off into peculiarly unique directions.

He bought his first guitar from Andy Sumners of The Police, shared a flat with Paul Simon and gave Yoko Ono all his money for an exhibition of naked bottoms. That came before landing in the US Top 5 with his 1976 album Year of the Cat. The single of the same name is a dreamy, meandering epic about a life changing meeting between a naïve young traveller and a worldly hippy. It's absolutely of it's time, but continues to get airplay around the world and has helped Al secure high-profile friends and admirers such as Tori Amos, Jimmy Page, Bert Jansch and Rick Wakeman.

Classic Scottish Albums: Belle And Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap

CLASSIC SCOTTISH ALBUMS: BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - THE BOY WITH THE ARAB STRAP (320kbs-m4a/61mb/26mins)

BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 23rd March 2017

To complement the 6 Music Festival, taking place this year in Glasgow, we repeat highlights of a series in which musician Davie Scott reveals the stories behind classic Scottish albums.

In this episode, first broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 2006, Davie looks at Belle and Sebastian's The Boy with the Arab Strap, released in 1998, which won them 'Best Newcomer' at the Brit Awards. We hear from the famously interview-shy collective about the making of the album, and also from crime writer Iain Rankin about his passion for their melancholy summertime sounds.

Belle and Sebastian are appearing at this year's 6 Music Festival.

Classic Scottish Albums: Primal Scream - Screamadelica

CLASSIC SCOTTISH ALBUMS: PRIMAL SCREAM - SCREAMADELICA (320kbs-m4a/61mb/26mins)

BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 22nd March 2017

To complement the 6 Music Festival, taking place this year in Glasgow, we repeat highlights of a series in which musician Davie Scott reveals the stories behind classic Scottish albums.

In this episode, first broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 2005, Davie talks to Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie about the classic Screamadelica, released in 1991. Bobby takes us back to the heady recording sessions and describes the ways in which politics and hedonism fuelled the music of the band, who headlined last year's 6 Music Festival in Bristol.

Classic Scottish Albums: Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

CLASSIC SCOTTISH ALBUMS: FRANZ FERDINAND - FRANZ FERDINAND (320kbs-m4a/70mb/30mins)

BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 21st March 2017

To complement the 6 Music Festival, taking place this year in Glasgow, we repeat highlights of a series in which musician Davie Scott reveals the stories behind classic Scottish albums.

In this episode, first broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 2011, Davie discovers the story behind Franz Ferdinand's 2004 self-titled debut. With a certain suaveness, optimism and confidence, the band bagged the Mercury Music Prize, three top-10 singles and 3.6 million album sales worldwide. They made a bigger impact on America than Robbie Williams and Oasis combined, and did it with a lot less bluster. Their influences include Talking Heads, Chic, Pulp and Joy Division, and these combined to reach a far wider audience than your average indie band.

Take Me Out topped several 'Best of 2004' lists, and seemed never to be off the Queen Vic's jukebox in Eastenders. The NME described their music as 'intoxicating', while others compared their worldwide appeal to that of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Duran Duran.

Classic Scottish Albums: The KLF - The White Room

CLASSIC SCOTTISH ALBUMS: THE KLF - THE WHITE ROOM (320lbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)

BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 17th March 2017

In the run-up to the 6 Music Festival, taking place this year in Glasgow, we repeat highlights of a series in which musician Davie Scott reveals the stories behind classic Scottish albums.

In this episode, first broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 2011, Davie unravels one of music's most fascinating tales, The White Room by the KLF.

Bill Drummond - son of a Church of Scotland minister - was almost 40 years old when he decided to create a 'Stadium House' band. He wanted to unite music fans with "gigantic anthems". A former top music exec, he understood pop music hype and hyperbole and used that to his advantage. While some might have judged he and partner Jimmy Cauty as over-the-hill, Bill's marketing know-how pushed The KLF to become the bestselling singles act in the world in 1991. 'Justified and Ancient' (featuring Tammy Wynette) was inescapable. It was No.1 in 18 countries and provided her highest-ever Billboard placing. 'What Time is Love' provided the first taste of The KLF's big commercial sound and was soon answered by the number 1 single '3am Eternal'.

And it wasn't just the fans who loved them. The music press couldn't get enough of their contrary ways, one journalist enthusing that "as providers of perverse, throwaway, three-minute pop-song manna... (they're) punk rock, the Renaissance, Andy Warhol and Jesus Christ all rolled into one."
The gigantic commercial success of the band flew in the face of taste-making rhetoric, and Bill and Jimmy caused further alarm when - at the height of their success - they gave a "violently antagonistic performance" at the 1992 Brit Awards and left the stage to a tannoy announcement stating that "The KLF have now left the music business". Job done!

Classic Scottish Albums: Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas

CLASSIC SCOTTISH ALBUMS: COCTEAU TWINS - HEAVEN OR LAS VEGAS (320kbs-m4a/61mb/26mins)

BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 16th March 2017

In the run-up to the 6 Music Festival, taking place this year in Glasgow, we repeat highlights of a series first broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in which musician Davie Scott reveals the stories behind classic Scottish albums.

In this episode Davie chats to Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins about the chaotic sessions for their sixth album, Heaven or Las Vegas, released in 1990, and now acknowledged as a masterpiece. Robin also reveals something of the mystery of the enigmatic lead singer Elizabeth Fraser's extraordinary lyrics and vocal style.

This episode first broadcast in 2007.

Cocteau Twins - Fotzpolitic [4AD]
Cocteau Twins - Pitch The Baby [4AD]
Cocteau Twins - Fifty Fifty Clown [4AD]
Cocteau Twins - Frou-Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires [4AD]
Cocteau Twins - Road, River And Rail [4AD]
Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas [4AD]

Classic Scottish Albums: Incredible String Band - Incredible String Band

CLASSIC SCOTTISH ALBUMS: INCREDIBLE STRING BAND - INCREDIBLE STRING BAND (320kbs-m4a/60mb/26mins)

BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 15th March 2017

In the run-up to the 6 Music Festival, taking place this year in Glasgow, we repeat highlights of a series first broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in which Davie Scott reveals the stories behind Classic Scottish Albums.

In this episode, Davie reveals the true and very amusing stories behind the Incredible String Band's first and self-titled album, which was released in the summer of 1966.

First broadcast in 2006.

The Incredible String Band - Maybe Someday [Elektra]
The Incredible String Band - The Empty Pocket Blues [Elektra]
The Incredible String Band - Womankind [Elektra]
The Incredible String Band - Tree [Elektra]
The Incredible String Band - Whistle Tune [Elektra]
The Incredible String Band - October Song [Elektra]
The Incredible String Band - Footsteps Of The Heron [Elektra]

Classic Scottish Albums: Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch

CLASSIC SCOTTISH ALBUMS: BERT JANSCH - BERT JANSCH (320kbs-m4a/61mb/26mins)

BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 14th March 2017

In the run-up to the 6 Music Festival, taking place this year in Glasgow, we repeat highlights of a series in which musician Davie Scott reveals the stories behind classic Scottish albums.

In this episode, first broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 2005, Davey talks to Bert Jansch about how he recorded his seminal 1965 self-titled album and what he thought about it 40 years on.

Born in Glasgow in 1943, Bert was an influential guitarist and songer / songwriter, who was also a founder member of Pentangle. Bert died in 2011.

Bert Jansch - Strolling Down The Highway [Transatlantic]
Bert Jansch - Needle Of Death [Transatlantic]
Bert Jansch - Casbah [Transatlantic]
Bert Jansch - Instrumental Medley (Bonus Track On CD) [Transatlantic]
Bert Jansch - Courting Blues [Transatlantic]
Bert Jansch - Veronica [Transatlantic]
Bert Jansch - Angie [Transatlantic]
Bert Jansch - Dreams Of Love [Transatlantic]