Dick Gaughan

**Richard Peter Gaughan** (born 17 May 1948) is a Scottish musician, singer and songwriter, particularly of folk and social protest songs. He is regarded as one of Scotland's leading singer-songwriters. Gaughan was born in Glasgow's Royal Maternity Hospital, when his father was working in Glasgow as an engine driver. He spent the first year-and-a-half of his life in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, after which the whole family moved to Leith, a port on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

The eldest of three children, Gaughan grew up surrounded by the music of both Scotland and Ireland. His mother, a Highland Scot who spoke Gaelic, had as a child won a silver medal for singing at a Gaelic Mòd. His Leith-born father played guitar, his Irish grandfather played the fiddle and his Glaswegian grandmother played button accordion. The family experienced considerable poverty, but the area they lived in possessed a strong community spirit and many of Gaughan's songs celebrate his working-class roots. In his teens Gaughan served an apprenticeship at a local paper mill, but had wanted to be a musician since he first started playing guitar at the age of seven. He got involved with the local folk music scene and, with two others, started a club called the Edinburgh Folk Centre. He turned professional in early 1970 and moved to London.

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## Links to Kershaw

One of the many artists that is a favourite of Andy Kershaw. The singer has done many sessions for Kershaw's show and on his 12 March 2007 programme, Andy choose Gaughan's Song For Ireland, as one of his many favourite songs, as part of his Desert Island Discs - The Sequel, which was broadcast the day after Desert Island Discs.

## Sessions

1. Recorded: 1986-05-19. First Broadcast: 29 May 1986. Repeated: 04 September 1986

* What You've Got / Think Again / Amandla / Hawks And Eagles

2. Recorded: 1987-11-12. First Broadcast: 19 November 1987. Repeated: 14 January 1988

* When I'm Gone / Shipwreck / The Worker's Song / Fifty Years From Now

3. Recorded: 1990-10-04. First Broadcast: 13 January 1991

* Childhood's End / Dark As A Dungeon / Your Daughters And your Sons / Tom Joad

4. Recorded: unknown. First Broadcast: 02 January 1993

* unknown set

5. Recorded: unknown. First Broadcast: 07 December 2001

* John Harrison's Hands / Outlaws And Dreamers / Why Old Men Cry / Erin-Go-Bragh / Song For Ireland

6. Recorded with Allan Taylor. First Broadcast: 28 February 2003

* When I'm Gone / unknown / Outlaws And Dreamers / Both Sides The Tweed

7. Recorded: unknown. First Broadcast: 04 December 2005

* Whatever Happened / The Devil And Pastor Jack / The Hunter Dunne / Lucky For Some

## Other Shows Played

1985
* 27 July 1985: The World Turned Upside Down (LP - Handful Of Earth) Topic

1986
* 05 June 1986: Schooldays End (LP - True And Bold Songs Of The Scottish Miners) STUC
* 28 August 1986: Song For Ireland (LP - Handful Of Earth) Topic
* 20 October 1986 (John Peel): Song Of Choice (v/a LP - Womad Talking Book Volume Three: An Introduction To Europe) Womad

1992
* 16 February 1992: 6/8 Marches: Alan McPherson Of Moss Park/The Jig Of Slurs (Compilation CD - Gaughan) Topic
* 08 March 1992: Bonnie Jeannie O'Bethelnie (CD - Gaughan) Topic
* 21 March 1992: The Recruited Collier (CD - Gaughan) Topic
* 28 March 1992: Jack Broke The Prison Door / Donald Blue / Wha'll Dance Wi' Wattie (Shetland Reels) (CD - Gaughan) Topic
* 17 October 1992: Miner's Life Is Like A Sailor's (LP - True And Bold Songs Of The Scottish Miners) STUC
* 28 November 1992: Reels: The Bird In The Bush / The Boy In The Gap / MacMahon's Reel (CD - Coppers & Brass) Green Linnet

1996
* 07 January 1996: Song For Ireland (v/a CD - The Folk Collection 2) Topic
* 29 December 1996: No Gods & Precious Few Heroes (CD - Sail On) Greentrax

1999
* 19 August 1999: Reconciliation (CD - Redwood Cathedral) Green Trax

2001
* 16 November 2001: What You Do With What You've Got (CD - Outlaws & Dreamers) Greentrax
* 30 November 2001: Outlaws And Dreamers (CD - Outlaws & Dreamers) Greentrax

2002
* 27 September 2002: Strike The Gay Harp / Shores Of Lough Gowna (2xCD - Prentice Piece) Greentrax

2004
* 09 May 2004: John Harrison's Hands (session recorded in 2001)
* 09 May 2004: Song For Ireland (session recorded in 2001)

2005
* 09 January 2005: War Outside (CD - McCalman Singular: "Songs By Ian, Sung By Friends) Greentrax
* 27 November 2005: Jock O' Hazeldean (v/a CD - Never The Same (Leave-Taking From The British Folk Revival 1970-1977)) Honest Jon's

2006
* 14 May 2006: Whatever Happened? (CD - Lucky For Some) Greentrax
* 28 May 2006: Anna Mae (CD - Lucky For Some) Greentrax
* 16 July 2006: Bleacher Lassie O Kelvinhaugh (CD - Lucky For Some) Greentrax
* 24 September 2006: Now Westlin Winds (CD - Handful Of Earth) Topic

2007
* 12 March 2007: Song For Ireland (album - Handful Of Earth) Topic
* 07 May 2007: Now Westlin' Winds (album - The Folk Collection) Topic

## External Links

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