promotion and distribution - which turned out to be a real blessing. Let’s just say whatever you budget to record an album, double it and add another 50% as a contingency. You’ll be half-way there.......but at least you won’t be able to blame anyone but yourself for anything you’re unhappy with at the end of the day.


I do work with some incredible musicians, both live and when Cy and I record the music we compose for film and TV, and over the years many have become close friends. Everyone encouraged me to get started on the new album, with promises they’d be there to support it and of course, they were. Obviously I’m singing on all the tracks and play acoustic guitar on all but two - ‘Now That The Stars Have Fallen’ which features renowned jazz guitarist John Goldie and Robert Burns’ ‘Ae Fond Kiss’, which is built around Chris Stout’s piano and viola arrangement - however the stunning playing of this regiment of pals does lift the album far above anything I’ve recorded before. Studio engineering and mixing was by the very talented Keith Bird, who co-produced with me and Cy at Glasgow’s Castle of Doom studios, although Ray Laidlaw’s drums were recorded at 65 A Side Studios in Glasgow and Dougie Stevenson recorded his dobro parts for ‘Days Like Today’ and ‘(I Wanna Be) American’ at Scotty’s in Stirlingshire.


I sometimes think too much fuss is made about songwriting, and I think most people who can hum aimlessy or write a simple poem have got a song in them. I was always hopeless at sport, dancing or anything that requires a modicum of co-ordination, so my conceit is that I can sometimes put a not-bad song together.


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