Black Water (album)
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Black Water is the debut album by Scottish
Scottish people
The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...

 contemporary folk musician Kris Drever
Kris Drever
Kris Drever is a Scottish contemporary folk musician and songwriter, who came to prominence in 2006 with the release of his debut solo album, Black Water...

, released on October 23, 2006, on Reveal Records
Reveal Records
Reveal Records started life as an independent music retailer in Derby, England. It won Music Week's "Best Independent Music Retailer 2005"and was nominated for best indie in 2006 and 2007 while they also set up a record label called Reveal Records Label with artists such as Joan as Policewoman,...

. The album was produced by John McCusker
John McCusker
John McCusker is a Scottish folk musician, record producer and composer. An accomplished fiddle player, he had a long association as a member of the Battlefield Band beginning in the 1990s and was later a band member and producer for folk singer Kate Rusby...

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Track listing

  1. "Steel and Stone (Black Water)
  2. "Braw Sailin' on the Sea"
  3. "Patrick Spence
    Sir Patrick Spens
    "Sir Patrick Spens" is one of the most popular of the Child Ballads , and is of Scottish origin.-Historicity:The events of the ballad are similar to, and may chronicle, an actual event: the bringing home of the Scottish queen Margaret, Maid of Norway across the North Sea in 1290...

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  4. "Beads and Feathers"
  5. "Green Grows the Laurel"
  6. "Honk Toot"
    • "Honk Toot"
    • "The Happy Aunt"
    • "Betty Beardmore"
  7. "Harvest Gypsies"
  8. "Fause Fause"
  9. "Poor Man's Son"
  10. "Rodney's Glory
    • "Air"
    • "Rodney's Glory"
    • "Jim Donoghue's
  11. "Navigator"

Personnel

  • Kris Drever
    Kris Drever
    Kris Drever is a Scottish contemporary folk musician and songwriter, who came to prominence in 2006 with the release of his debut solo album, Black Water...

     - vocals, guitar, tenor guitar
    Tenor guitar
    1932 Martin 0-18 T Sunburst Tenor Guitar|thumb|rightThe tenor guitar or four-string guitar is a slightly smaller, four-string relative of the steel-string acoustic guitar or electric guitar. The instrument was developed so that players of the four-string tenor banjo could double on the guitar...

  • John McCusker
    John McCusker
    John McCusker is a Scottish folk musician, record producer and composer. An accomplished fiddle player, he had a long association as a member of the Battlefield Band beginning in the 1990s and was later a band member and producer for folk singer Kate Rusby...

     - producer, fiddle, whistle
  • Andy Seward - recording, mixing, banjo (track 9)
  • Paul McGeehan - additional recording
  • Keith Bird - assistant to additional recording
  • Calum Malcolm
    Calum Malcolm
    Calum Malcolm is a Scottish record producer, sound engineer and keyboardist based in Edinburgh.He started his rock music career with the band The Headboys in 1977....

     - mastering
  • Roy Dodds - drums, percussion (tracks: 1, 3, 5, 7 & 9)
  • Ewen Vernal
    Ewen Vernal
    Ewen Vernal is a Scottish musician.Born in Glasgow to a musical family, Vernal began taking piano lessons at 8 years old—inspired by a Beatles-singing mother and a choir-leading, saxophone-playing father...

     - double bass (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9 & 10)
  • Ian Carr
    Ian Carr (guitarist)
    Ian Carr is an English guitarist and producer from Yorkshire, who has performed with Swåp and The Kate Rusby Band.Until the late 1990s, Carr was a part of The Kathryn Tickell Band...

     - guitar (tracks: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 & 10)
  • Donald Shaw
    Donald Shaw (musician)
    Donald Shaw is a Scottish musician, composer, producer, and one of the founding members of the group Capercaillie. His sister is fiddler Eilidh Shaw....

     - harmonium, wurlitzer, piano (tracks: 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 & 11)
  • Andy Cutting
    Andy Cutting
    Andy Cutting is an English folk musician and composer. Born 18 March 1969 in Harrow, he plays melodeon and has had instruments made by Castagnari to his own specification. He won the Folk Musician of the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2008 and 2011...

     - diatonic accordion (tracks: 1, 2, 3, 7 & 8)
  • Eddi Reader
    Eddi Reader
    Eddi Reader MBE is a Scottish singer-songwriter, known both for her work with Fairground Attraction and for an enduring solo career. She is the recipient of three BRIT Awards and has topped both the album and singles charts...

     - harmony vocals (tracks: 1 & 9)
  • Kate Rusby
    Kate Rusby
    Kate Anna Rusby is an English folk singer and songwriter from Penistone, South Yorkshire. Sometimes known as The Barnsley Nightingale, she has headlined various British national folk festivals, and is regarded as one of the most famous English folk singers of contemporary times...

     - harmony vocals (tracks: 2, 5 & 11)
  • Roddy Woomble
    Roddy Woomble
    Roderick "Roddy" Woomble is the lead singer of Scottish rock band, Idlewild and a solo contemporary folk musician. To date, Woomble has released six full-length studio albums with Idlewild, and two solo albums, My Secret is My Silence and The Impossible Song & Other Songs...

    - harmony vocals (tracks 9 & 11)
  • Hugo Morris - cover artwork photography
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