Dick Gaughan - Live At The BBC 1972 - 79 - TECD513

Dick Gaughan - Live at the BBC 1972-79 - LNFG204

Live At The Bbc 1972 - 79

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Release Date: 21 November 2025

Label: Talking Elephant

Packaging Type: Digipak

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 5028479051328

Genres: Folk Scottish Folk

Release Date: 13 February 2026

Label: Gaughan Recordings / Last Night From Glasgow

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 0787480472892

Genres: Folk Scottish Folk

Description

Dick Gaughan was professionally active from 1970-2016, retiring on health grounds and living now quietly in Edinburgh. While Handful of Earth (1981) remains his most lauded single body of work, it marked, for the artist himself, the end of an era - the absolute best that he could do within traditional music. From that point on, contemporary songwriting, often in service to social commentary, became more prominent. For reasons most easily described as the vicissitudes of rights ownership and the consequent absence from the marketplace of several early albums, ready access to the 'first phase' of Dick's career - the ten years preceding Handful of Earth - has long been difficult. This album, LIVE AT THE BBC - and its parent set, the 7CD/DVD R/evolution: 1969-83 - retrieves that 'lost era' in abundance, revealing the magnificence of Dick Gaughan's early music for the twenty-first century listener.

Description

Live at the BBC 1972-79 lovingly compiles the highlights of Dick Gaughan's 1970s BBC recordings on vinyl for the first time. Scotland's beloved folk legend was professionally active from 1970-2016, retiring on health grounds and now living quietly in Edinburgh. This album, and its parent box set, the crowdfunded 7CD/DVD R/evolution: 1969-83, reveals the magnificence of Dick Gaughan's early music to the twenty-first century listener. The 10-track album is pressed on blue coloured vinyl at Seabass Vinyl in Scotland and distributed by Last Night From Glasgow. The vinyl insert contains a new appreciation of Dick Gaughan in the 70s written by fellow folk legend Martin Simpson along with period photos and a rare 1974 interview from Folk Review.
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