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New CD from Litha
Old Blind Dog Aaron Jones has just finished a new CD with his band Litha (formerly known as 2Duos). The CD, released in time for Christmas, is titled Dancing of the Light. oldblinddogs.co.uk finds out more about Litha…
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Dogs prepare for USA Tour September/October 2011
Old Blind Dogs fly on Thursday 15th September 2011 to begin their Autumn 2011 Tour of the USA which will run until October 9th. oldblinddogs.co.uk finds out where the boys will tour and who will replace Jonny Hardie for the trip...
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Lucky Pups Tie The Knot!
Well 2011 has been a very exciting year for one lucky pair of pups. There were wedding bells in the kennel with all the Old Blind Dogs in attendance. oldblinddogs.co.uk investigates...
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OBD at the West End Festival, Glasgow
Old Blind Dogs will perform at Glasgow's West End Festival at the Oran Mor on Friday 17th June. oldblinddogs.co.uk finds out more...
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OBD Return from USA Tour
Old Blind Dogs have just returned from a twenty concert tour of the USA. oldblinddogs.co.uk finds out how the tour went and reveals the winner of our tour guitar raffle...
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Old Blind Dogs (with Cara) - Barsinghausen, Germany
Friday, August 10, 2012
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 Four On the Floor
New CD, new line-up, very recognisable sound...Old Blind Dogs are now Fraser Stone (percussion), Aaron Jones (bouzouki/guitar), Rory Campbell (pipes) and the only remaining founder member Jonny Hardie (fiddle). They continue their habit of many years of treating the tradition with respect...but not too much respect. So - the weel-kent and week-loved Braw Sailing on the Sea acquires a cheeky shuffle and thus a new set of clothes. Ewan McColl's chilling Terror Time loses its normal anthem/dirge delivery, but none of its drama, as it gallops along, propelled by driving guitar and percussion. New-boy vocalist Aaron Jones brings his own sound to the OBDs as well. It's more reminiscent of the intense, occasionally almost snarly Ian F. Benzie sound of yore than of the creamy, melliflous tones of Jim Malcolm, and the OBDs seem to have adjusted their choice of songs to take account of that. This is a well-balanced set of well-known songs/tunes including a second pop at The Bonnie Earl O'Moray and Bedlam Boys/Rights of Man.
The mnost memorable track for me is, however, Davie Robertson's Star O the Bar - a club/pub standard, generally bellowed by massed voices, unaccompanied (and not always entirely in tune). Here, the song finds itself with an almost string-quartetty arrangement...that works, against all odds. Perhaps that's the OBDs greatest skill - to find new facets of a song or tune, to give it a tasteful, if often improbable, new set of clothes and let us all hear it as if for the first time. Or perhaps it's their ability to change line-up and come out sounding radically different , but still the same - the Old-Blind-Dogness seems to survive line-up changes and anno domini - and that's remarkable...as is this CD.
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