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VARIOUS ARTISTS The Greentrax 25th Anniversary Collection |
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Last October “Scotland’s Favourite Record Company” celebrated its Silver Anniversary with a grand concert in Edinburgh’s Queen’s Hall and here in collaboration with the Culburnie label is a double album with lavish liner notes and booklet. Ian Green’s Greentrax imprint is synonymous with quality and élan and he’s personally selected the 27 cuts, (2 bonuses included), for this special landmark release, though at pains to point out it’s not a “Best Of...” or “Now That’s What I Call Greentrax!” With a figure of approaching 500 releases to choose from, it can’t have been a breeze to pick such a modest number to reflect an overview of the brand’s landscape over the years. With this abundance of material, suffice to say that the whole is a heady mosaic of multi-instrumental virtuosity, expressive vocals and a nice mix of the Scots tradition (Jimmy McBeath – hurrah!) with some own-writes and modern covers. There isn’t a track here that is less than overflowing with passion, freshness or swagger – sometimes all of these at the same time! Clive Pownceby |
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