and having to fix, repair and use his initiative means he’s grateful for a very different education than that which took place in the school house.
“I had a really close family. Both my father and my grandfather would walk around with me, all around this area, and tell me the stories of this place. I grew up knowing this place intimately,” said Dougie.
“You could take me blindfold three or four miles around here and I’d know exactly where we were, I’d know the best place to find hazelnuts, the best places to find trout in the burn. I think back then people were much
“One of the problems of humanity now is that we travel all the time. We go away and we live in different places and we never get to know one place intimately so we’re always a bit lost, we’re always a bit disconnected and that’s the way the modern world works.”
Dougie is not just passionate about music and the land but also the people of Scotland who he feels are experiencing a new found confidence.
“Over the last ten years I’ve seen a self confidence
starting to rediscover their culture through folk music and poetry and dance and song. There has been a cultural revolution that has brought a self confidence which has now filtered into the political system.
identity whether it’s music or literature, the are very welcoming, you can always get a cup
“I had a really close family. Both my father and my grandfather would walk around with me, all around this area and tell me the stories of this place. I grew up knowing this place intimately,”
: Dougie Maclean
of tea or a whisky... people love that kind of thing!
“I think Scots themselves are beginning to realise the rest of the world really thinks we are quite something.”
Despite playing all over the world Dougie remains every inch a Scot who feels most at home among his fellow countrymen and the landscape of Perthshire, especially.
“I relate to them, they understand my humour and my stories. I don’t have to explain anything to them,” he said.
“It’s who I am and it’s why I am the way I am. The language I use is the language of this place.
“I’m so lucky to have been able to live here for the past 40 years and to be a musician who traveled around the world. I think it kept me grounded.
“I feel really privileged that I was able to bring my children up here, and now my grandchildren, and make all my music in my old school while playing to people
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