Last week I opined that bagpipe music began and ended with Amazing Grace. Last night, to prove me wrong, one of our liberal drinkers loaned me a CD by a group called Rare Air. The CD is named Primeval. The group pretty much defies categorization, but I would say Celtic jazz is as close as you can come. I listened to the CD this morning, and I hereby eat my words. You can make good music with a bagpipe, at least you can if you surround it with other instruments. There isn’t much on youtube by these gents, but I found two. The first is a number called New Swing Reel.
The second must have a name, but they never mention it in the video, and I’m not about to try to match it up with the numbers on the CD.
So, I hereby eat my words, on the subject of bagpipes. (I’m sticking to my guns about Matt Collette though)
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