Jock Tamson's Bairns

Although they remained together only a short time in the initial stage of their career, Jock Tamson's Bairns became one of the most acclaimed traditional Scottish bands of the last two decades of the 20th century, with luminaries like Alasdair Fraser and Richard Thompson counting themselves as admirers. Formed in Edinburgh in the late '70s, the group took its name from the Scottish saying "we're all Jock Tamson's Bairns," meaning that people are all essentially the same. The Bairns grew out of the Scots band Chorda, which played frequently in the Sandy Bells Pub, the center of...