Liz in Conversation with Ian Bruce re Album ‘The Land We Love’
AOW 26th Nov 2022

Tune in at 12pm on Saturday 25^th November for Album of The Week, when Liz Clark aka Auntie Liz will be in conversation with award winning singer songwriter, produce and recording artist  and Scotland’s `national treasure’ Ian Bruce,  about his new album,  ‘The Land We Love’ a commissioned work of the poems of the borders poet Will H Ogilvie set to music composed by Ian.

Also joining Ian on the show will be Norrie Fraser from Well Road Productions who commissioned the CD.
Musician joining Ian on the album are Pete Clark, Ian Lowthian  and Bruce Macgregor.

About the poet himself, William Hendry Ogilvie  1896 -1963, born in Holefield near Kelso one of eight children, father George famed the lands of The Earl of Dalkeith on the Buccleuch Estates and his mother Agnes, orphaned in the Indian Mutiny at Cawnpore was a gifted pianist. Ogilvie attended high school and went onto college and on graduating sailed to Australia where he lived and worked in the bush for over 12 years.  As often is the case Ogilvie is most revered for his poetry in Australia, where many statues are erected  in his memory and there is even an Ogilvie Day!

‘With well over 1000 poems written by Ogilvie it was a difficult task to choose only 18 to go on this album’.

 Upcoming gigs:-
2023
Jan 17 Quarter Folk Club – The Boolin’ Club
German Tour
March 24- 9 April

Tracks on album

1. Ho! For The Blades of Harden
2. The Brown Burns
3. On Cheviot’s Shoulder
4. Bowmont Water
5. Comfort of The Hills
6. Clydesdales
7. Ettrick
8. Song For Ettrick(Long ,Long ago)
9. The Hoofs of The Horses
10. A Mother’s Thought
11. North Country
12. The Raiders
13. At Sunset
14. Romany Toon
15. Teviot
16. The Road To Roberton
17. A Scotch Night
18. The Land We Love