Greentrax Recordings
Greentrax Recordings

1986-2024: Celebrating Scotland's Music for 38 years

Ian Green: 1934-2024

William MacLean - Pibroch

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Scottish Tradition Series — Bagpipes — CD — Double CD — CDTRAX9010D

Scottish Tradition Series vol 10. Born of a Raasay family living in Tobermory, Isle Of Mull, William MacLean was a pupil of Malcolm MacPherson (Calum Piobaire) of Badenoch, with whom he made a special study of piobaireachd. He went on to win many piping prizes, including the Argyllshire Star at Oban (1898), the Inverness… read more

A Tribute In Music And Song To John Bellany

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Compilations — CD — CDTRAX386

The late John Bellany was born and brought up in Port Seton, East Lothian, Scotland, and went on to become an artist of international renown. His father was a boat builder in Port Seton and many of John’s paintings reflect his connection with fishing and the sea. John also had a great love of… read more

Gordon Gunn - Wick To Wickham

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2016 Top 20 — Fiddle — CD — CDTRAX381

Gordon Gunn is one of Scotland’s top fiddlers and a member of the hugely successful Scottish band Session A9. He is also regarded as a talented composer, especially of slow airs which are the envy of all tunesmiths. Born and brought up in Wick, Caithness, Gordon was taught by the highly respected… read more

Fraser & Ian Bruce - The Best of Mrs Bruce’s Boys

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2017 Top 20 — Vocal Groups — CD — CDTRAX385

Fraser and Ian Bruce enjoyed an extremely successful period between the years 1980 and 1986, playing festivals, concerts and folk clubs throughout the UK and other countries around the world. In one year alone they appeared as a main stage act at fourteen festivals in the UK. They made many radio… read more

George Moss - Pibroch

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Scottish Tradition Series — Bagpipes — CD — CDTRAX9015

Scottish Tradition Series vol 15. Born in Strathglass in 1903, son of an estate worker, it was while his father was working on an estate in Glengarry that George Moss, not yet in his teens, began serious study of the repertory and traditions of the Highland bagpipe. He competed on occasions but spent a lot of his time studying and… read more

Ross Munro - Twisted Tradition

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Bagpipes — CD — CDTRAX384

Ross Munro started playing the bagpipes under Pipe Major John D Burgess MBE at an early age. At seventeen he joined The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. After the mega success of the Spirit Of The Glen trilogy of albums on Decca Records, in which Ross played a pivotal role as Pipe Major on the Classical… read more

The Falkirk Music Pot

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Compilations — CD — Double CD — CDTRAX383D

Brian McNeill & Friends Celebrate His Home Town’s Music The Falkirk Music Pot is one of three projects forming part of the Falkirk Creative Place 2014 Award programme. This recording project has been produced on behalf of Falkirk Community Trust and Falkirk Council by multi-instrumentalist,… read more

Cruinneachadh Chaluim - Field Recordings of Gaelic Music and Song

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Scottish Tradition Series — Bagpipes — Fiddle — Gaelic Song — CD — Double CD — CDTRAX9026D

Scottish Tradition Series vol 26. Field Recordings of Gaelic Music & Song From The Highlands & Islands by Calum MacLean A double CD set with one CD consisting of songs and the other featuring instrumental music. The School of Scottish Studies and Greentrax are delighted to present this double CD collection, selected from the… read more

Luke Daniels - Tribute to William Hannah

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Accordion & Melodeon — CD — CDTRAX379

William Hannah (1891-1961) was born in the mining village of Blackburn, West Lothian. Having started on the mouth organ as a boy, he became well known as Scotland’s premiere melodeon player by the end of the First World War, during which he served in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. His role… read more

Alex Hodgson - The Brig Tae Nae Where

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX382

The Brig Tae Nae Where (The Bridge To Nowhere) is the second Greentrax album by the Prestonpans singer Alex Hodgson. Twelve tracks on this album were written by Alex, plus one each by Robert Burns and Ewan MacColl. This new album is based on family memories of summer days past, some spent at… read more

For Freedom Alone - The Wars Of Independence

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Compilations — Wars & Battles — CD — CDTRAX1314

Commemorating the 700th Anniversary of Bannockburn in Music & Song. 2014 is the 700th Anniversary of The Battle of Bannockburn and Greentrax marks this important event with this compilation of songs, music and a poem by many of Scotland’s finest artists. 2014 is also the year of The Scottish Referendum and the album recognises this historical event. The title of… read more

Gaelic Songs From The North Uist Tradition

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Scottish Tradition Series — Gaelic Song — CD — CDTRAX9025

Scottish Tradition Series vol 25. Bu Chaoin Leam Bhith ‘N Uibhist (Gaelic Songs From The North Uist Tradition) Between 1950 and 1975 staff and students of the School of Scottish Studies, collecting material relating to the cultural life and traditional arts of North Uist, made over five hundred recordings of songs, music, tales,… read more

The Flooers o’ The Forest - Songs, Poems & Music of Flodden

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Compilations — Wars & Battles — Solo Singers & Songwriters — Spoken Word — CD — Double CD — CDTRAX1513

1513-2013 Five Hundredth Anniversary. Songs and Music of Flodden, and a ‘FREE’ CD of Poetry and Prose of Flodden. Two CDs for the price of one. 9th September 2013 marks the 500th Anniversary of The Battle of Flodden, when an English Army crushed a Scottish Army. This was slaughter on both sides, on a terrible scale. This was the… read more

The Paul McKenna Band - Elements

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — 2016 Top 20 — Bands — CD — CDTRAX373

This is the third album on Greentrax by The Paul McKenna Band since their formation in 2006. Their two previous titles are Stem The Tide (2011) and Between Two Worlds (2009). At the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards in 2012, Paul McKenna won Scots Singer Of The Year, Mike Vass won Composer Of The Year… read more

Ceolbeg Collected

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Compilations — Ian Green’s Pick Of The Month — Bands — CD — CDTRAX374

“Both the band and myself are very proud of what this mainly part-time band achieved over the years. They were arguably one of the best and most exciting instrumental and vocal bands to join Greentrax - some of Scotland’s finest musicians have been members of Ceolbeg. In all Greentrax released… read more

Fiona J Mackenzie - Archipelago

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Gaelic Song — CD — CDTRAX368

Fiona J Mackenzie, a previous Mod Gold Medallist, releases her third album for Greentrax. Archipelago is a collection of songs in Gaelic, Scots and Norn from islands all across Scotland, from Shetland in the far north to Ailsa Craig in the south. Fiona is a native of Morayshire and has lived in… read more

David Francey - Late Edition

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX366

From carpenter to songwriter - since leaving construction and recording his first album in 1999, Scottish-born Canadian David Francey is recognised as one of today’s finest singer-songwriters. Late Edition was David’s ninth CD release, in April 2011. David released his first album Torn Screen… read more

David Francey - The First Set

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX367

Live From Folk Alley From carpenter to songwriter - since leaving construction and recording his first album in 1999, Scottish-born Canadian David Francey is recognised as one of today’s finest singer-songwriters. The First Set - Live From Folk Alley was recorded at Kent State Folk Festival and is… read more

Alistair Ogilvy - Leaves Sae Green

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX365

Alistair is a fine traditional singer. He was a finalist in the BBC Radio Scotland ‘Young Traditional Musician Of The Year’ Award in both 2011 and 2012, and won the Traditional Music And Song Association’s ‘Young Singer Of Merit’ award the same year. Alistair has already appeared at many… read more

Seudan

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Bagpipes — CD — CDTRAX362

Seudan comprises some of Scotland’s leading exponents of traditional pipe music and Gaelic song. The music is alive and vital, closely related to its old natural step dance rhythms while the piobaireachd follows the song versions from which they originated. The arrangement and delivery of their… read more

Songs & Ballads From Perthshire

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Scottish Tradition Series — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX9024

Scottish Tradition Series vol 24. This album is released in the year of the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh in 1951. The School is delighted that Maurice Fleming of Blairgowrie, whose collecting forms a very important part of the School Archives, has himself acted… read more

Barbara Dickson - Words Unspoken

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX353

Barbara Dickson OBE is a multi-million selling recording artist with an equally impressive Olivier Award winning acting career. She has firmly established herself as one of the most enduring and popular entertainers in Britain today. With numerous awards for acting and singing, hit singles, gold and… read more

Steele The Show - The Songs of Davy Steele

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Compilations — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX358

STEELE THE SHOW: THE MAN One of Scotland’s best loved singer songwriters, Davy Steele was loved equally for his sensitivity to others and for his charismatic ebullient nature. Davy could always be relied upon to ‘get the party started’. Born in 1948 in Summerlea, Prestonpans, on the banks of… read more

Stevie Palmer - Heartprint Shadow

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX347

Following an initial musical career as a drummer, Stevie Palmer decided to turn his full attention to the art and craft of songwriting. The progression was always more than likely as Stevie grew up surrounded by his mother’s music (folk singer-songwriter Eileen Penman) and musical loves, as well… read more

Scottish Music Of The RSAMD - The Future Of Our Past

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Compilations — CD — CDTRAX357

Recordings by students on the Scottish Music courses of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. A mixture of music and songs, recorded at the RSAMD by Bob Whitney and co-produced by Phil Cunningham and Findlay Napier. The students include Kirsten MacLeod, Katherine MacLeod, Paul McKenna,… read more

Lorne MacDougall - Hello World

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Bagpipes — CD — CDTRAX345

Two-time BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Of The Year finalist, piper Lorne MacDougall was brought up in Carradale, Kintyre. On leaving school he studied for a BA in Scottish Traditional Music at the Royal Scottish Academy Of Music And Drama in Glasgow, graduating with honours in 2005.… read more

Jeana Leslie & Siobhan Miller - Shadows Tall

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Fiddle — Vocal Groups — CD — CDTRAX352

Jeana Leslie & Siobhan Miller are two talented young singers and musicians who are recognised as shining new stars on the Scottish music scene. Both are blessed with natural voices that blend beautifully. The duo are previous winners of the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards 2008 and The Scots Trad… read more

Ciaran Dorris - Home

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX354

Acclaimed singer-songwriter and popular Celtic Music Radio presenter Ciaran Dorris moved to Glasgow from his native Belfast in 1988, quickly earning plaudits for his songs and style. This debut album presents Ciaran to a far wider audience and should establish him as a fine singer-songwriter, with… read more

The Battle Of Prestonpans 1745

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Compilations — Wars & Battles — CD — CDTRAX356

Music And Song Of The Campaign. A companion album to The Prestonpans Tapestry, one of Scotland’s most significant and ambitious community projects. A compilation of music and songs connected with the Battle Of Prestonpans, featuring artists Karen Matheson (Capercaillie), The Corries, The Whistlebinkies, The Panel Beaters, Jean… read more

Alex Hodgson - Jeelie Jars ‘n’ Coalie Backies

 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX351

ALEX HODGSON is from Prestonpans, East Lothian, close to the office of Greentrax Recordings. He carries on the fine tradition of Prestonpans song writing from the late Davy Steele. Alex was a finalist in the ‘Burnsong’ song writing competition in 2005 and 2009 and since then he has appeared live… read more