Dick Gaughan - R/Evolution - 7CD & 1DVD Box Set

In March–April 2025, a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign ran with the twin goals of: (1) creating the 7CD+DVD box set R/evolution: 1969–83; (2) raising some funds for Dick Gaughan himself, retired and visually impaired. With active and generous endorsement from fellow artists including Barbara Dickson, Karine Polwart, Billy Bragg, Patsy Seddon, Chris Brain and Andrew Cronshaw, the campaign was an unmitigated success.

900 copies were pre-ordered through Kickstarter; 1,500 have been manufactured – thus, 600 are being made generally available. Various factors mean that this is a one-off pressing – when they’re gone, they’re gone.

We will be thrilled to bring this box set to the masses.  Shipping in January/February. The remaining items will be distributed into record shops in March 2026.

What’s in the box?

·       126 audio tracks (9 hours) and 37 video tracks (2½ hours, spanning 1970–2012) from five broadcasters and two amateur documentarists.

·       83 audio tracks are unreleased (43 BBC session/concert recordings + 40 club/concert recordings) including many songs and tunes never commercially recorded by Dick.

·       All 37 video performances are unreleased (including two otherwise unrecorded Gaughan originals).

·       Maximum variety of repertoire (over 100 distinct songs or tune sets on the audio discs)

The audio is mastered by Cormac O’Kane and the video content is restored and mastered to stunning effect by Eroc. The set is curated by Bert Jansch/John McLaughlin biographer Colin Harper. Two extensive illustrated booklets are included featuring: (1) a new 10,000-word essay by Graeme Thomson; (2) vintage interview features by Ian A. Anderson, Jerry Gilbert, Fred Woods and Colin Irwin; (3) rare and unpublished photos from Ian A. Anderson, Dave Peabody, Frank Scott, Tom Steenbergen, Barry Plummer and Val Wilmer; (4) song notes by Steve Byrne. Crucially, ALL profits will go to Dick Gaughan.

The box set contents are listed below.

Disc 1: BBC / live 1969–73

ALL TRACKS PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

My Kind of Folk, BBC R2, 10/9/69

1. Fiddler’s Green 3:54
2. Burning of Auchindoun 1:51

Live at the Crown Bar, Edinburgh, 25/8/70

3. Jock o’ Hazeldean 4:12

Live at the Goat, St Albans, 15/11/71

4. The Three Healths 2:29
5. The Thatchers of Glenrea 2:23
6. Derwentwater’s Farewell 2:35

Folk on Two, BBC R2, 11/10/72 – Dick Gaughan & Aly Bain

7. Jigs: The Langstern Pony / Banish Misfortune 1:51
8. Rattlin’ Roarin’ Willie 1:58
9. Fair Flower O’ Northumberland 5:24

Listen Here Awhile, BBC R4, rec. 16/11/72 – Boys of the Lough

10. Floo’ers o’ the Forest 4:15
11. Farewell to Whiskey 2:54
12. Slip Jigs: The Whinny Hills of Leitrim/Paddy O’Brien of Offaly’s 2:22

Listen Here Awhile, BBC R4, rec. 29/12/72 – Boys of the Lough

13. Rigs o’ Rye 4:26
14. Reel: The Hurricane 1:26
15. The Trooper and the Maid 2:42
16. MacCrimmon’s Lament/Mrs Jamieson’s Favourite 4:54

Live at Ghuznee Fort, Gillingham, 19/12/72 – Dick Gaughan & Aly Bain

17. The Jolly Beggar 5:48
18. The Blackbird 9:28

Rehearsal in the Netherlands, 1971

19. Song extracts: The Cruel Mother / Sweet Carnlough Bay / Andrew Lammie 3:21

Folkweave, R2, 7/12/73

20. The Jolly Beggar 4:58 (different version)
21. Alan MacPherson of Mosspark 3:50

Total: 77:13

Disc 2: Studio / live / BBC 1973–77

TRACKS 1–2, 9–18 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

TRACKS 7–8 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON CD

Folkweave, BBC R2, 7/12/73

1. Farewell to Whisky 4:56
2. MacCrimmon’s Lament 5:34

From The Bonnie Pit Laddie (Topic, 1975)

3. The Aughengeich Disaster 2:18
4. Bonny Woodha’ 3:29

From Sandy Bell’s Ceilidh (Alba, 1977)

5. The Cruel Brother 5:40
6. Sleepy Toon 3:32

From The Second Folk Review Record (Folksound, 1976)

7. Arthur MacBride 2:17
8. The Rashy Moor 5:00

Live at St Andrews Folk Club, 27/10/74

9. Lord Randal 4:41
10. The Gypsy Laddies 4:20
11. The John McLean March 3:10

Folkweave, BBC R2, 13/07/77

12. Planxty Johnson 2:50
13. Raglan Road 5:40
14. Boys of the Lough / Roaring Mary 2:24
15. The 51^st Highland Division’s Farewell to Sicily 6:05

Live at St Andrews Folk Club 18/12/77

16. Rigs o’ Rye 5:18
17. Planxty Johnson 3:48
18. The Earl of Errol 4:01

Total: 75:03

Disc 3: Studio / BBC 1977–78

TRACKS 1–8 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

John Peel, BBC R1, 27/7/77

1. Farewell to Whisky 3:50
2. Boys of the Lough 2:12
3. My Donald 4:16
4. Freedom Come All Ye 2:49
5. The Rashy Moor 3:47

John Peel, BBC Radio 1, 25/5/77 – Five Hand Reel

6. Pinch of Snuff 3:32
7. A Man’s a Man For a’ That 3:10
8. Carrickfergus 4:13

Gaughan (Topic, 1978)

9. Bonnie Jeannie O’ Bethelnie 5:22
10. Bonnie Lass Amang the Heather 3:21
11. Crooked Jack 5:09
12. The Recruited Collier 3:07
13. The Pound A Week Rise 2:29
14. My Donald 3:34
15. Willie O’ Winsbury 8:38
16. Such a Parcel O’ Rogues in a Nation 2:44
17. Gillie Mor 3:21

From Coppers & Brass (Topic, 1977)

18. Reels: O’Keefe’s / The Foxhunter’s 2:45
19. Reels: The Oak Tree / The Music in The Glen 3:03
20. Reels: The Spey in Spate / The Hurricane 2:17
21. Shetland Reels: Jack Broke the Prison Door / Donald Blue / Wha’ll Dance Wi’ Wattie 1:48

Total: 75:27

Disc 4: BBC 1977–82

ALL TRACKS PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

John Peel, BBC Radio 1, 22/3/78 – Five Hand Reel

1. Jackson and Jane 6:32
2. The Trooper and the Maid 4:53
3. My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose 3:29

John Peel, BBC Radio 1, 25/5/77 – Five Hand Reel

4. P Stands for Paddy 4:35

Folkweave, BBC Radio 2, 25/03/79

5. Coppers and Brass / Behind the Haystack  3:20
6. Erin the Green 5:31
7. Bonnie Jeanie O’ Bethelnie 5:27

Folkweave, BBC Radio 2, 23/08/79

8. Fair Flower O’ Northumberland 4:56
9. The Pound a Week Rise 2:52
10. Willie O’ Winsbury 8:12
11. Craigie Hill 4:51

Folk 79, BBC Radio 2, 3/4/79

12. The 51^st Highland Division’s Farewell to Sicily 5:29
13. Gillie Mor 4:09
14. The Bonnie Lass Amang the Heather 3:55

Folk on Two, 2/12/82 – with Dave Burland and Tony Capstick

15. Jamie Foyers 3:28
16. Schooldays End 1:59

Total: 73:37

Disc 5: Studio / live 1981–83

TRACKS 13–18 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

From Handful of Earth (Topic, 1981)

1. Erin-Go-Bragh 4.30
2. Now Westlin Winds 4.36
3. The Snows They Melt the Soonest 4.16
4. Lough Erne / First Kiss at Parting 5.52
5. Scojun Waltz / Randers Hopsa 4:09
6. Both Sides the Tweed 3.39

From Folk Friends 2 (Folk Freak, 1981)

7. The World Turned Upside Down 2:37
8. Lassie Lie Near Me 4:37
9. The Father’s Song 3:42

From Parallel Lines (Folk Freak, 1982)

10. The Lads o’ the Fair / Leith Docks 3:34
11. My Back Pages / Afterthoughts 5:26
12. Floo’ers o’ the Forest 7:37

Music recorded for the ballet Shoals of Herring (1983)

13.   Shoals of Herring (Ewan MacColl) 4:50

Live at Waverley Bar, Edinburgh, 3/81 – ‘nostalgia session’

14. The Verdent Braes of Screen 3:22
15.  Too Much of Nothing 2:33
16.  McPherson’s Rant 3:27
17.  Ballad of the Men of Knoydart 2:41

Folklore Center, New York, 21/8/72 – Boys of the Lough

18. Come Lay Me Down, Love 3:53

Total: 77:33

Disc 6: Live in America 1981

IN CONCERT AT JULIA MORGAN CENTER, BERKELEY, CA 8/11/81

ALL TRACKS PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED.

1. Magdalen Green 3.55
2. Now Westlin Winds 5:36
3. Tommy Peoples’ Jig / Jackie Daly’s Jig 4:33
4. Farewell to Whisky 4:26
5. Bonnie Jeannie o’ Bethelnie 6:04
6. The West Clare Railway / Chicago Reel / Jenny’s Welcome to Charlie (4:25
7. Lough Erne 6:30
8. Erin-Go-Bragh 4:22
9. Song for Ireland 5:04
10. Willie o’ Winsbury 7:39
11. Craigie Hill 6:30
12. Your Daughters and Your Sons 3:30
13.  Johnny & Molly / Colonel Fraser / Charlie Lennon’s 6:54
14. The World Turned Upside Down 3:49
15. Thirty-Foot Trailer 4:31

Total: 77:48

Disc 7: Studio / live 1983

TRACKS 11–17 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

A Different Kind of Love (Wundertüte, 1983)

A Different Kind of Love Song 3:48
Revolution 4:14
Prisoner 562 3:39
Song of Choice 2:30
The Father’s Song 3:42
Think Again 2:46
As I Walked on the Road 5:14
Stand Up for Judas 4:58
By the People 3:33
Games People Play 4:52

Live at Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, 12/1/83

The Rebel Corps 5:20
As I Walked on the Road 4:00
(tunes – titles TBC) 5:39
Freedom Come All Ye 2:56

Live in New York, 18/11/83

Jigs: Tom Billy’s/The Monaghan/Sean Ryan’s 4:50
Raglan Road 8:14
Revolution 5:33

Total: 75:52

 

DVD: Dick Gaughan on Film 1970–2012

ALL TRACKS PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

Genuine Scottish (DR, 13/2/70)

Fiddler’s Green 4:55

Sunday Gallery (BBC NI, 19/11/72)

Jackson and Jane / Boys of the Lough 5:37

Vienna Folk Festival 1981 (broadcaster unknown)

Magdalen Green 3:30

Spectrum (BBC Scotland, 1983)

Bonnie Jeannie o’ Bethelnie + interview 4:55
The Concertina Hornpipe 0:51
Song for Ireland + interview 3:58
Floo’ers o’ the Forest (edit) + interview 4:12

Folkfestival ‘83 (WDR, 1983)

Erin Go Bragh 3:26
The Games People Play 3:28
Your Daughters and Your Sons 3:20
World Turned Upside Down 2:30

Which Side Are You On? (Ken Loach/Sixteen Films, 1984)

Which Side Are You On? 2:08

(unknown programme rushes) (STV, 1/5/85)

A Different Kind of Love Song 3:25

Festival View 87: Bill Paterson (BBC2, 27/8/87)

What You Do With What You’ve Got 2:14
Interview with Bill Paterson 0:58
Now Westlin Winds 2:37

Aly Bain & Friends (STV, 1988)

Both Sides the Tweed (Dick Gaughan) 4:00

Live at the Thekla, Bristol (Bristol Ron, 28/11/90)

Revolution (Dick Gaughan, Joseph Bovshover) 3:30
Freedom Come All Ye (Time TBC)

Supperman (STV, 1991)

Afton Water 3:45

Tacsi (Mac TV Production, 2000)

21.   Canan nan Gaidheal 3:15

Celtic Connections (Doc Rowe, January 2001)

What You Do With What You’ve Got (time TBC)
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy (Pete Seeger) 4:25

Folk Britannia: Which Side Are You On? (BBC outtake, 2006)

World Turned Upside Down 3:50 – with Billy Bragg & Maggie Holland

Songs of Ireland (BBC4, 18/3/12)

Erin-Go-Bragh 5:45 – with Solas


Bonus film:

Vienna Folk Festival 1981 (broadcaster unknown)

Now Westlin Winds 5:25
Tommy Peoples’ Jig / Jackie Daly’s Jig 4:35
Workers’ Song 4:20
Jenny’s Welcome to Charlie 4:40
Farewell to Whisky 5:05
The Pound a Week Rise 3:07

Live in London (Doc Rowe, 1986)

Song of Choice 3:10
A Miner’s Life is Like a Sailor’s 3:48
The John McLean March 3:57
Ireland Her Own 3:46
U.S. Cousins 4:00
Hawks and Eagles 3:02

DVD total: 143:00