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Bannocks of Barley Meal, Alasdair of the Stoups, The Big Foot of the Deceitful One

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When I released “Oyster Wives Rant” as the intro music for season four I decided to use it as the title for the best of season 4 album, and I’ve decided to do the same thing again here. Bannocks in the eighteenth century were likely unleavened and akin to thick, modern Scottish oat cakes. A simple dough was made and cooked on a griddle or frying pan and then toasted on the side of the fire. Barley or “bare” meal is still a popular flour ingredient for Scottish oatcakes, especially the ones made in Orkney. When we were in Scotland in 2019, Stockan’s Orkney oatcakes were a constant in our food bag, and I loved the idea of the album being an excuse to celebrate them.
The tune sounds better on Uillean pipes than Lowland pipes, but I still had some fun playing around with drone adjustments. My Jon Swayne Border pipes have extra tone holes drilled in the drone in order to tune them down to A for the A Lowland Chanter. You can just make out me playing that tone hole with by pressing it against my neck while playing “Bannocks of Barley Meal.” The other two tunes, “Alasdair of the Stoups” and “The Big Foot of the Deceitful One” both come from Eliza Ross’s 1812 manuscript from the Isle of Raasay.

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1780s: Bannocks Of Barley Meal. I’m using a setting from Volume V of Aird/MacFadyen’s Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs:
archive.org/stream/selectionofscotc00rugg#page/n69/mode/1up

1812: Alasdair of the Stoups & The Big Foot of the Deceitful One can be found in Eliza Ross’s Manuscript:
www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/cultural-heritage-collections/school-scottish-studies-archives/archive-pubs/eliza-ross-manuscript

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from Bannocks of Barley Meal, released June 3, 2022

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Jeremy Kingsbury Grand Forks, North Dakota

I host a bi-weekly bagpipe and history podcast which explores the likely repertoire eighteenth and early nineteenth century bagpipers.
I've played Highland pipes and uilleann pipes since the nineties. My albums are an opportunity for me to keep the tunes and songs I have most enjoyed from creating the podcast.

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