Across The Borders
On this live album, the Battlefield Band is joined by five different guests.  Recorded during three concerts at Queen's Hall in Edinburgh, the album features a  generous helping of 28 different songs and instrumental dance tunes, but the highlights  occur when the guests visit the band on stage. Eric Rigler, a Californian featured on the  "Braveheart" soundtrack, plays the smaller, sweeter uillean pipes in harmony and  counterpoint with Iain MacDonald's bagpipes on two songs and three tunes. Alison  Kinnaird, a frequent collaborator in the past, joins the Battlefield Band again to add her  Scottish harp and arrangement to the traditional air, "Tuireadh Iain Ruaidh." Flutist  Seamus Tansey adds an Irish flavor on two tunes cowritten with MacDonald. And the  Battlefield Band joins Glasgow's Radio Sweethearts for a version of Dave Dudley's  truck-driving classic, "Six Days on the Road."--Geoffrey Himes