Colin H on No More Forever
Many of Dick Gaughan’s 1970s/80s recordings have been out of circulation for decades. That’s a large part of the impetus behind the current ‘R/evolution: 1969–83’ 7CD/DVD box set in progress (gratefully funded via a successful Kickstarter campaign), which will draw from BBC, club/concert soundboards, scattered studio rarities and selected (licensable) album tracks to fill in the appalling ‘legacy gap’.
Dick’s three 1977–81 Topic albums are available digitally but only one is currently available physically (the excellent 2019 remaster of ‘Handful of Earth’, 1981); the two Folk Freak/Wundertüte 1982–83 albums are available digitally but the label is long dormant and nothing has been remastered or available physically in nearly 30 years. The 1986 album funded by the STUC had only a limited shelf life that decade. The two solo albums for Trailer (1972; 1977), the Boys of the Lough album for Trailer (1973), the joint album with Tony Capstick and Dave Burland for Rubber Records (1978) and the two albums for Celtic Music (1985; 1988) have all disappeared into a cupboard of doom, owned by the same people, seemingly never to be reissued or licensed to third parties.
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