The Easy Club

The second album from the Scottish music innovators of 'Scottish Rythm 'n' Swing' features 11 tracks that include a mixture of songs and instrumental pieces of tradtional Scottish arrangements which are given The Easy Club treatment, transforming them into something instantly recognisable.

The Easy Club's 'Scottish Rhythm n' Swing' style of playing traditional music has quite a retro sound, drawing on many recent musical traditions, American as well as Scottish, and forcing them together into a startling type of fusion that were refreshingly new at its release.  It was the hottest thing in town.

Jack Evans rhythm and lead guitars, bass, melodeon
John Martin fiddle, phonofiddle
Rod Paterson vocals, guitar, bass
Jim Sutherland cittern, bodhran, congas, percussion

Bodhrans by Dave Gormlie
Guitars and cittern by Stefan Sobell

Engineered by Beeg Al and Neil Ross at REL Studios
Mixed by Beeg Al
Produced by The Easy Club
Photography by Robin Gillanders
Design by Jim Hutcheson/B Emslie

Thanks to Hamish Imlach for ‘Black is the Colour' an American love song set on the Clyde.  Willie Johnson from Shetland is ‘The North Sea Chinaman' and ‘The Linguist' is Rosie de Gruyther.  ‘Neal Slessor Thomson' is Jim's nephew; our version of ‘The Desert March' is also known as ‘The Camels of Caithness'.  John Watt wrote ‘The Eyemouth Disaster' - this abridged version was learned from Cilla Fisher.  John Martin is ‘The Quiet Man' and a young girl who went to live in Ireland inspired ‘Erse for Alba'.  Two traditional tunes, ‘The Dhu Hill' and ‘Auld Wattie' play leapfrog with two jigs by Jim, ‘Isle of Ewe' and ‘The 40% Rule'.  Thanks to Norman Chalmers for his part in the arrangement of ‘The Diamond' an old North-East work song about the long gone Peterhead whalers.  Few places in Edinburgh have less carnival atmosphere than ‘West Pilton Circus' - the tune is for Taffy Thomas.  ‘The Pumpherston Hornpipe' was originally written for Carol Jamieson's Euphonium, and ‘Chance or Design' is another song from Rod.  Pipers usually march, and ‘The Long Distance Runner' is one who intends to play his pipes in the Glasgow marathon.