Duncan Williamson sings "Loch Maree"

Singer

Williamson, Duncan

Date

• 1986

Summary

• Duncan Williamson wanted everyone present in a recording session to feel included in a circle of warmth and affection. On this occasion in August 1986, Duncan performed a number of songs and ballads for members of a recording team consisting of half a dozen North Americans. He directed this one to a particular member of the group, Fern Moore, who had been listening quietly up to this point. The song is what Duncan called "a Scotch song": not a traditional one, but a popular one about a shepherd from the Highlands who falls in love with a woman from America. He states that he learned it from a cousin on his mother's side.