Jock Scot - My Personal Culloden on CD

Description

Jock Scot was born in 1952 and grew up in Musselburgh, near Edinburgh. A remarkable post-punk musical Zelig, Jock has worked with artists including The Clash, Ian Dury, Vivian Stanshall, Taj Mahal and The B52s - as press officer, roadie, housekeeper and, most particularly, Imperial Lord Of Good Vibes. From the 1990s onward Jock reinvented himself as a rampaging rock poet and has read his material in concert at the invitation of bands including The Libertines, Belle & Sebastian and British Sea Power. The My Personal Culloden album features bewitching backing music from The Nectarine No. 9, led by Davy Henderson, formerly of the Fire Engines and Win, currently frontman with the Sexual Objects. With Jock sounding like a more disruptive version of Sean Connery, My Personal Culloden is a beautiful, emotive tour de force - words addressing girls, drugs, extinct volcanoes, French rugby and Ronnie Wood over a backing sounds that ranges from Captain Beefheart to the Radiophonic Workshop to field recordings of bees in an Edinburgh garden. My Personal Culloden is an undimming blend of incantation and amplified sound - the post-punk answer to the revered albums of words-and-music that John Betjeman made for Charisma Records in the 1970s. The Heavenly reissue will be on both CD and excelsior vinyl, with extensive new sleeve notes and additional visuals.

TRACKS

Easy To Write
Gay Paean to Thierry
Above The Volcano
Someone's Yearning
Tape Your Head On
Just Another Fucked Up Little Druggy
Farewell to Ferodo
Theres a Hole in Daddy's Arm
Good God
Dometic Bliss
Thunder Over Kilburn
A Certain Beauty
Norman Vaughan's Blues
The Underdog
While Cars Passing By
All Over The World Girls Are Dreaming
Nuts
Going Off Someone