Dick Gaughan. Richard Peter Gaughan usually known as Dick Gaughan (born 17 May 1948, Glasgow) is a Scottish musician, singer, and songwriter, particularly of folk and social protest songs.
Early years[edit] Gaughan was born in Glasgow's Rottenrow Maternity Hospital, when his father was working in Glasgow as an engine driver. He spent the first year-and-a-half of his life in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, after which the whole family moved to Leith, a port on the outskirts of Edinburgh. His mother was a Macdonald from Lochaber, and was a native speaker of Gaelic. As a child in the 1930s she won a silver medal at the Gaelic Mod. Gaughan took up the guitar at the age of seven. 1970s[edit] He taught himself to read and write music, and in the late 1970s he began to write reviews for what was at the time the only national folk music paper, Folk Review. 1980s[edit] 1990s[edit] Style and interests[edit] Present day[edit]
Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame. Dick Gaughan is Scotland’s most passionate troubadour, a singer and guitarist whose performances both burn with a fierce conviction and smoulder with equally heartfelt compassion and invigorate audiences across the world with eloquently expressed conviction.
Gaughan was born in Glasgow on May 17, 1948, while his father was working temporarily as an engine driver at Colville’s Steelworks, and grew up in Leith surrounded by music. His mother was a native Gaelic speaker from Lochaber who sang Gaelic and English songs and his father, whose Irish parents played fiddle and accordion and sang, was a semi-professional guitarist in a Hot Club de France-style swing group, and all of these nourished the young Gaughan’s imagination.
He turned professional in 1970 and recorded his first album, No More Forever, the following year before replacing Mike Whellans in the already popular Boys of the Lough in 1972. Main Page - Dick Gaughan's Website. It has been brought to my attention that someone is masquerading as me on Twitter and making forged posts in my name.
I do not have a Twitter account, I do not use Twitter, and any posts there in my name are forgeries. " 'Art for art's sake' is a philosophy of the well-fed. " -- Cao Yu (1910 – 1996) "The war which is coming is not the first one.There were other wars before it.When the last one came to an endThere were conquerors and conquered.Among the conquered the common people starved.Among the conquerors the common people starved too. " -- Bertolt Brecht "Crossroads" is a weekly radio show I present on Black Diamond FM For details check Crossroads Website [ Table of Contents ] The Morning Star is the only daily newspaper in the UK which is fully independent, is owned by its readers, and which presents news from a progressive, working class perspective.
No celebrity gossip. Read it here "I hate a song that makes you think you're not any good! -- Woody Guthrie -- Pete Seeger on Woody Guthrie. About - Dick Gaughan's Website. DICK GAUGHAN DISCOGRAPHY. Dick Gaughan. Dick Gaughan - Now Westlin Winds. Dick gaughan -stand up for judas. Dick Gaughan : Why Old Men Cry. Dick Gaughan - Workers' Song. DICK GAUGHAN Freedom Come All Ye 1989. Music - Dick Gaughan. Dick Gaughan Tour Dates. Life and opinions of andrew rilstone: Dick Gaughan. Bristol Folk House 11th June 2011 A Dick Gaughan gig is not for the faint-hearted.
He performs for ninety minutes straight, not singing so much as snarling. His voice has become more and more like a growl as he's got older, but that suits the angry tone of the songs. Fine old rabble-rousers like Tom Paine's Bones jostle with melody-free rants about former comrades who abandoned the Cause.
("I used to see you salute that poster of Che Guevara / I guess it wouldn't look too chic in the house you live in now"). The invective kicks in early. Although he claims not to use a set list the evening covers most of the most famous musical bases: we get Song for Ireland, Now Westlin' Winds ("I couldn't imagine not singing it"), Games People Play and the incomparable Both Sides The Tweed. Any performer in this vein risks turning into the parody folk-singer who hates poverty, war and injustice "unlike the rest of you squares".
Let virtue distinguish the brave Place riches in lowest degree.