Another fine album. "Song for Ireland" is a classic. Features Brian McNeill, Phil Cunningham, and Stewart Isbister. Voted Album of the Decade of the '80s by Folk Roots magazine, A Handful of Earth is Gaughan's best blend of traditional and contemporary songs.
(the one that ran from 1642-51, not the American one). This was written by Leon Rosselson, and is sung here by Dick Gaughan - astonishingly making his MOG debut.Now aged 60, Glasgow-born and Edinburgh-raised Dick Gaughan has been performing for about forty years. A committed socialist, he is a hero on the folk scene and has performed at hundreds of benefits for leftist causes of varying popular...
 "Handful of Earth")
