Mirk

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Records:

Mirk: Ballad Folk (BBC Records REC 293, 1977)
with Jean Redpath, Charlie Murray, The Gaugers, Lizzie Higgins, Archie Fisher, Artie & Cilla Tezise, Jimmy Hutchison, Gordeanna McCulloch and Willie Scott

Side One: Marnie (with Jean Redpath)
Side Two: The Forfar Sodjer

Marjorie Sinclair, Ian Sinclair, Ray Crompton

Mirk: Moddan's Bower (Mother Earth MUM 1205, 1979)

Side One: As I Cam Ower the Muir o' Ord; The Ploughboy Laddie; The Keech In the Creel; The Cruel Mother; Bowermadden (I Sinclair)
Side Two: Sleepy Town; Brundenlaws; The King's Shilling (I Sinclair); The Glasgow-Caithness Centenery Gathering

Margie Sinclair (vocals), Ian Sinclair (guitar), Ray Crompton

Mirk: Tak a Dram Afore Ye Go (Springthyme SPR 1009, 1982)

Side One: Why Should I?; Dowie Dens o Yarrow; Lady Charlotte Durham (Nath Gow); Bonnie Wee Lassie's Answer; Och Hey, Johnnie Lad (Tannahill); PM George Ross's Farewell to the Black Watch (Lawrie)/Capt Lachlan MacPhail of Tiree (Farquhar)
Side Two: Glenlogie; Cairn-o-Mount (Balfour/Cuffe); Fareweel to Cape Helles; Glasgow Caithness Centenery Gathering (Taylor)/Eighth Black-Watch On Passchendale Ridge (Bremner)/John Keith Lang (Harper)/Bill Powrie (Ian Powrie); Take a Dram (Afore Ye Go) (Sinclair)

All tracks traditional unless otherwise noted

Ian Sinclair (fiddle, guitar, 12-string guitar, vocals), Margie Sinclair (lead vocals, harmonium, autoharp), Ray Crompton (harmonium, mandola, guitar, mandolin, vocals), Jim Sutherland (cittern, bass, mandolin, bodhran)
with Andy Corsie (electronic bagpipes)