"The music swings like a cat" - The Scotsman 

"It is a box of delights ... a wonderful album" -BBC Radio Scotland 

"Far from Home is a delight" - BBC Radio Nan Gael

"An exposition of fleet-fingered flatpicking" - Scotland on Sunday

Published in 2012 by Taigh na Teud Ltd, and receiving a grant from from Creative Scotland, the Scottish Guitar Tutor Book features a wide selection of popular fiddle tunes in easy to read tablature as well as notation. 

Image C. Pete Heywood.

Recent live shows have included an Edinburgh Festival Rory Gallagher Acoustic Tribute show (with Dave Moir), Arran Folk Festival, The Lemon Tree Aberdeen, the Carrying Stream Festival in Edinburgh and the Cavern Club in Liverpool  playing the acoustic set as part of the 14th Rory Gallagher UK tribute show.

Far from Home was "CD of the Week" on Celtic Music Radio and features the jazzy double bass playing of Brian Shiels and some bluesy twists of Dave Moir & Spider Mackenzie. It is the first album of its type to feature Scottish tunes flatpicked on the acoustic guitar and is a delight to listen to. It is a beautifuly packaged and recorded album which has received extensive and continuing airplay from the BBC.

Recorded at one of the UKs leading studios, Castlesound Studios (Runrig, REM), it covers the entire spectrum of Scottish  traditional tunes from Shetland reels through to Borders jigs and from West Highland harp tunes to swingy East Coast hornpipes. There are new tunes such as Rory Gallagher's Jig, by Gordon Duncan, and also tunes that are hundreds of years old. It is a treat for all fans of the acoustic guitar and also fans of Irish, traditional, blues and bluegrass music.