Richard Peter Gaughan was natural around 1948 in Rutherglen, Glasgow, where his father was temporarily working as an railroad engineer. A year and a half years afterwards a whole personal moved to Leith, a port on the fringe of Edinburgh. He has never returned to Rutherglen. Richard's mother was from either Lochaber, & was the native speaker of Gaelic. As a little one in the 1930s she won a silver at a Gaelic Mod. His father was an Irish speaker from Mayo, world health organization played a violin. He was a firstborn of deuce-ace kids. Dick Gaughan took higher a guitar at a age of Vii. Although he late sang within Scots Gaelic it remained a foreign tongue to him, an echo of a distant past, by using single the occasional word or even sentence getting meaning. He sang around Edinburgh folk clubs & became broker within 1970.

He manufactured of these solo album Those days are gone Forever prior to joining Boys of the Lough. He sang & played guitar in their debut album (1972) so left. Looking supplementary chance for singing he was the guest of the High Level Ranters whilst it recorded A Bonnie Pit Laddie inside 1975. There so followed the feverish period of his life pursuing deuce careers - a single as a member of Five Hand Reel (3 albums 1976 - 1978) & a single as a soloist (Quadruplet albums in the equivalent time period). It was the period of protective-sucking down, travelling inside vans, & seeing super little of his married woman & girl. the crisis come when his girl was knocked down by a car while he was away. A girl survived however Dick got to choose option of his life & re-prioritise items.

Ultimately he taught himself to scroll through & write music. He reviewed for the exclusively subject folk music paper, Folk Review. He likewise saw sir thomas more of his personal. He joined a agitprop theatre group known as 7:84. He appeared to become consciously as a consequence in the footsteps of a second socialist theatre-director-singer Ewan MacColl, even recording the benefit album to him inside 1978. Dick has too participate around the tribute to Woody Guthrie. In the early 1980s he campaigned vigorously for an organisation known as Perform, to unite agency & amateur folk performing artist into the immune system to negotiate fees, distribution rights, & to locate artistic control. He was a chair for 2 years.

His solo albums tackled large ballads (A Muckle Sangs) besides when his have challenging songs. He challenged prevailing assumptions presented by politicians, that Russians come tons war-militarist. He did this withwithin the heart-devout way, forswearing caustic remark, in the heavy Leith accent & insistently percussive guitar. The Handful of Globe (1981) and The Different Sort of Love-song (1983) are among his better albums. He has hard opinions in several items including a Internet. When recovering from either voice problems he took the course around computing in 1984 and is one of the pack sales person singers world health organization can well become the job as a to complain. He designs & maintains his have site.

His songs use been recorded by Billy Bragg, Mary Black and Capercaillie. Around his guitar swimming we may detect a influence of Big Bill Broonzy. He has recorded extensively as a session musician. Dick Gaughan joined Davy Steele of the Battlefield Band, together with more musicians to form Clan Alba. It freed 1 self-titled album around 1995. Although he utilized electric guitar by having 5 Hand Reel, he at present plays chiefly acoustic guitar, + more interlaced instruments. To enjoy a right of his subservient act, listen to Coppers & Brass (1977).

The recent album, Redwood Cathedral (1999) has been widely acclaimed. Prentice Piece (2004) is a xxx-month retrospective of his career.

Discography

No Supplementary Forever (1972) Kist O'Gold (1976) Coppers & Brass (1977) Gaughan (Songs Of Ewan MacColl) (1978) A Handful of Globe (1981) A Different Kinda Love-song (1983) Fanfare For Tomorrow (1985) Live Inside Edinburgh (1985) True & Bold (1986) Call It Freedom (1988) Sail In (1996) Redwood Cathedral (1999) Outlaws & Dreamers (2001)

Dick Gaughan & Andy Irvine Parallel Lines (1982)