Track listing

1. "Mark the Hard Earth" - 4:45
2. "This Old Song" - 3:54
3. "Shining Star" - 3:55
4. "Allegory" - 3:56
5. "Wild Hurricane" - 3:58
6. "Sweet Honey in the Rock" - 3:03
7. "O' A' the Airts" - 3:29
8. "The Call and the Answer" - 3:56
9. "The Crown of London" - 4:00
10. "The Banks of the Nile" - 4:36
11. "Freedom Come A'ye
    Freedom Come-All-Ye
    "Freedom Come-All-Ye" is a song written by Hamish Henderson, the Scottish poet, songwriter, and intellectual. It is written in the Scots Language. "Freedom Come-All-Ye", one of Henderson's most important songs, gives a non-romantic, revisionist view of the role of the Scots in the world at the...
    
    " - 4:33

Musicians

• Kris Drever
  Kris Drever
  Kris Drever is a Scottish contemporary folk musician and songwriter, who came to prominence in 2006 with the release of his debut solo album, Black Water...
  
   - lead vocals, guitar
• 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...
  
   - fiddle
• Ewen Vernal
  Ewen Vernal
  Ewen Vernal is a Scottish musician.Born in Glasgow to a musical family, Vernal began taking piano lessons at 8 years old—inspired by a Beatles-singing mother and a choir-leading, saxophone-playing father...
  
   - bass, vocals
• Tim O'Brien
  Tim O'Brien (musician)
  Tim O'Brien is an American country and bluegrass musician. In addition to singing, he plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki and mandocello...
  
   - vocals, banjo, bozuki, mandolin, fiddle, baritone ukelele
• Heidi Talbot
  Heidi Talbot
  Heidi Talbot is an Irish folk singer from Kill, County Kildare, Ireland. Talbot is the former singer of Irish-American musical group Cherish the Ladies.-Early life and education:...
  
   - vocals
• Phil Cunningham
  Phil Cunningham (folk musician)
  Phil Cunningham, MBE, born 1960 in Edinburgh, Scotland is a Scottish folk musician and composer.-Biography:Phil played accordion and violin from a very young age. He attended school in Portobello, and was raised Mormon, attending church regularly and playing organ...
  
   - accordion
• Roy Dodds - drums
• Andy Seward - bass
• Ian Carr
  Ian Carr (guitarist)
  Ian Carr is an English guitarist and producer from Yorkshire, who has performed with Swåp and The Kate Rusby Band.Until the late 1990s, Carr was a part of The Kathryn Tickell Band...
  
   - guitar
• Donald Shaw
  Donald Shaw (musician)
  Donald Shaw is a Scottish musician, composer, producer, and one of the founding members of the group Capercaillie. His sister is fiddler Eilidh Shaw....
  
   - harmonium, wurly
• Karine Polwart
  Karine Polwart
  Karine Polwart is a Scottish singer-songwriter. She writes and performs music with a strong folk and roots feel, her songs dealing with a variety of issues from alcoholism to genocide...
  
   - vocals ("Freedom Come A'ye")

Recording personnel

• 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...
  
   - producer
• Andy Seward - recording, mixing
• Calum Malcolm
  Calum Malcolm
  Calum Malcolm is a Scottish record producer, sound engineer and keyboardist based in Edinburgh.He started his rock music career with the band The Headboys in 1977....
  
  - recording, additional engineering, mastering
• Tony Doogan - additional engineering

Artwork

• Louis Decarlo - photography
• Chris Williams - photography, logo location photography, design and layout
• Joe Carter - wooden logo carving
• Tom Rose - original artwork and package concept