Key: D
Form: Strathspey
ABC:
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MP3 (fiddle*):
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MP3 (two guitars**):
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Sheet Music in PDF: Calum’s Road
YouTube:
Source (if known): Donald Shaw of Capercaillie
Other Tunes in Set:
Region: Scotland
Notes:
*Susan Reid who contributed this MP3 for the site, noted, “This is not quite the same as the dots, or the other recording you have [likely the Capercaillie YouTube above], which is lovely. This is just how I learned it.”
** this guitar duo rendition contributed by Art Edelstein who writes: “Here’s the Borealis Guitar Duo 2 guitar version of Calum’s Road. Both guitars are tuned DADGAD. Art Edelstein plays the melody part, Mike Fullerton the harmony part.
Historical background:
Malcolm Macleod (1911 – 1988) was a crofter who famously built Calum’s Road on the Island of Raasay, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. He was Local Assistant Keeper of Rona Lighthouse and the part-time postman for the north end of Raasay.
After decades of unsuccessful campaigning by the inhabitants of the north end of Raasay for a road, and several failed grant applications, Calum decided to build the road himself. Purchasing Thomas Aitken’s manual, Road Making & Maintenance: A Practical Treatise for Engineers, Surveyors and Others (London, 1900) for half a crown, he started work, replacing the old narrow footpath. Over a period of about ten years (1964–1974), he constructed one and three quarter miles of road between Brochel Castle and Arnish, using little more than a shovel, a pick and a wheelbarrow. Several years after its completion, the road was finally adopted and surfaced by the local council. By then, Calum and his wife, Lexie, were the last inhabitants of Arnish.
–Wikipedia
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