Across the Borders
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Across the Borders, a live album by The Battlefield Band
Battlefield Band
Battlefield Band is a Scottish traditional music group. Founded in Glasgow in 1969, they have released over 30 albums and undergone many changes of lineup. As of 2010, there are no founder members in the band....

, was released in 1997 on the Temple Records label. The total running time is 66:10.

Track listing

  1. "Miss Sarah Macmanus/Appropriate Dipstick/Cape Breton Fiddlers' Welcome" – 4:06
  2. "Tramps and Hawkers" – 6:09
  3. "Snow on the Hills/Xesus & Felisa" – 4:30
  4. "The Concert Reel/The Green Mountain", with Eric Rigler
    Eric Rigler
    Eric Rigler is an American player of the Uilleann pipes, Great Highland Bagpipes, and tin whistle. He plays on his own and with the band Bad Haggis, and has been featured on a number of movie soundtracks. He has been described as "the most recorded bagpiper of all time"...

     – 2:24
  5. "The Arran Convict", with Seamus Tansey
    Seamus Tansey
    Seamus Tansey, also spelled Séamus Tansey, is an Irish flute player born in Sligo, Ireland in 1943. He won the All-Ireland flute title in 1965.- Discography :This may not yet be a complete discography....

     – 4:40
  6. "My Home Town/Kalabakan", with Eric Rigler
    Eric Rigler
    Eric Rigler is an American player of the Uilleann pipes, Great Highland Bagpipes, and tin whistle. He plays on his own and with the band Bad Haggis, and has been featured on a number of movie soundtracks. He has been described as "the most recorded bagpiper of all time"...

     – 3:40
  7. "Tuireadh Iain Ruaidh", with Alison Kinnaird – 4:54
  8. "The Trimdon Grange Explosion" – 4:09
  9. "Simon Thoumire's Jig/Shake a Leg/Ríl Gan Ainm" – 4:05
  10. "Miss Kate Rusby", with Eric Rigler
    Eric Rigler
    Eric Rigler is an American player of the Uilleann pipes, Great Highland Bagpipes, and tin whistle. He plays on his own and with the band Bad Haggis, and has been featured on a number of movie soundtracks. He has been described as "the most recorded bagpiper of all time"...

     – 4:26
  11. "The Green and the Blue", with Eric Rigler
    Eric Rigler
    Eric Rigler is an American player of the Uilleann pipes, Great Highland Bagpipes, and tin whistle. He plays on his own and with the band Bad Haggis, and has been featured on a number of movie soundtracks. He has been described as "the most recorded bagpiper of all time"...

     and Kate Rusby
    Kate Rusby
    Kate Anna Rusby is an English folk singer and songwriter from Penistone, South Yorkshire. Sometimes known as The Barnsley Nightingale, she has headlined various British national folk festivals, and is regarded as one of the most famous English folk singers of contemporary times...

     – 5:25
  12. "The Donnie MacGregor/Clumsy Lover" – 3:05
  13. "Woe Be Gone/Bubba's Reel/Frank's Reel", with Alison Kinnaird – 6:41
  14. "Six Days on the Road", with The Radio Sweethearts – 4:15
  15. "In and Out the Harbour/The Top Tier/Sleepy Maggie/Molly Rankin" – 3:41

Lineup

  • Alan Reid
    Alan Reid (musician)
    Alan Reid is a Scottish folk multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. He was a founding member of Battlefield Band, which combined traditional Celtic melodies and new material.-Biography:...

  • Iain MacDonald
    Iain MacDonald
    Iain MacDonald is an Irish serial entrepreneur. Iain founded Perlico in 2003 and was CEO as it developed into Ireland's leading alternative provider of consumer broadband before selling to Vodafone in 2007 in a $100m deal....

  • Alistair Russel
  • John McCusker
    John McCusker
    John McCusker is a Scottish folk musician, record producer and composer. An accomplished fiddle player, he had a long association as a member of the Battlefield Band beginning in the 1990s and was later a band member and producer for folk singer Kate Rusby...


Guest musicians

  • Alison Kinnaird
  • Kate Rusby
    Kate Rusby
    Kate Anna Rusby is an English folk singer and songwriter from Penistone, South Yorkshire. Sometimes known as The Barnsley Nightingale, she has headlined various British national folk festivals, and is regarded as one of the most famous English folk singers of contemporary times...

  • Seamus Tansey
    Seamus Tansey
    Seamus Tansey, also spelled Séamus Tansey, is an Irish flute player born in Sligo, Ireland in 1943. He won the All-Ireland flute title in 1965.- Discography :This may not yet be a complete discography....

  • Eric Rigler
    Eric Rigler
    Eric Rigler is an American player of the Uilleann pipes, Great Highland Bagpipes, and tin whistle. He plays on his own and with the band Bad Haggis, and has been featured on a number of movie soundtracks. He has been described as "the most recorded bagpiper of all time"...

  • The Radio Sweethearts
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