James Grant (musician)
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Friends Again
James Grant's music career began in 1982 as songwriter and guitarist in Friends AgainFriends Again (band)
Friends Again were a Scottish 1980s New Wave/pop group, formed in 1982.It was built around by Chris Thomson, later of The Bathers, and James Grant, who went on to form Love and Money. The group was famous for their singles "State of Art", "Sunkissed" and "Honey at the Core". They released a...
, alongside Chris Thomson, later of The Bathers
The Bathers (band)
The Bathers are a Scottish Chamber pop band.Formed in Glasgow in 1985 after the band Friends Again split up, they are essentially the vehicle for singer-songwriter, Chris Thomson. They have released seven albums....
. The group had minor hit singles with "State of Art", "Sunkissed" and "Honey at the Core". They released a self-titled EP in 1983 and then recorded their debut album, Trapped & Unwrapped, in 1984.
Love And Money
When Friends Again split in 1985, Grant went on to form Love and Money along with drummer Stuart Kerr and keyboardist Paul McGeechan. In their nine years together they recorded four moderately successful albums, All You Need Is, Strange Kind Of Love, Dogs In The Traffic, and littledeath, and had six chart hits in the United Kingdom.[1]Solo career
Grant's first solo album, Sawdust in My Veins, was released on Survival Records in 1998. It featured long term collaborator Donald ShawDonald Shaw (musician)
Donald Shaw is a Scottish musician, composer, producer, and one of the founding members of the group Capercaillie. His sister is fiddler Eilidh Shaw....
, Karen Matheson
Karen Matheson
Karen Matheson OBE is a Scottish folk singer, who frequently sings in Scottish Gaelic. She is lead singer of the group Capercaillie and was a member of Dan Ar Braz's group L'Heritage des Celtes, with whom she often sang lead vocals, either alone or jointly with Elaine Morgan...
, harmonica player Fraser Speirs
Fraser Speirs
Fraser Speirs is a Glasgow-based harmonica player. Originally trained as a medical illustrator, Speirs has been performing for over 30 years and is now an internationally-known performer and teacher....
, drummer James MacKintosh and the BT Scottish Ensemble. After a label change to Vertical, the same lineup was retained for My Thrawn Glory in 2000. I Shot The Albatross, a collection of poetry set to music, was released in 2002. It included interpretations of works by Edwin Morgan, EE Cummings, and William Blake
William Blake
William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...
. The gentle, introspective Holy Love, followed in 2004, featuring contributions by dobro player Jerry Douglas
Jerry Douglas
Jerry Douglas may refer to:*Jerry Douglas , actor, who was on The Young and the Restless for 25 years*Jerry Douglas, country/bluegrass musician*Jerry Douglas , director and writer of adult films such as, Score...
and ex-Thrum vocalist Monica Queen
Monica Queen
Monica Queen is a singer from Glasgow, Scotland who has collaborated with Belle & Sebastian , Chris Coco, James Grant and Jim White, among others...
. Strange Flowers, a more upbeat collection, was released in February 2009.
Grant also scored the film The Near Room and has collaborated with Capercaillie's
Capercaillie (band)
Capercaillie is a Scottish folk band, founded in the 1980s by Donald Shaw and fronted by Karen Matheson. They have seen four of their albums placed in the UK Albums Chart, and continue to perform and record to the present day.-History:...
Karen Matheson
Karen Matheson
Karen Matheson OBE is a Scottish folk singer, who frequently sings in Scottish Gaelic. She is lead singer of the group Capercaillie and was a member of Dan Ar Braz's group L'Heritage des Celtes, with whom she often sang lead vocals, either alone or jointly with Elaine Morgan...
, performing live and writing songs for her solo records The Dreaming Sea'
The Dreaming Sea
The Dreaming Sea is the debut solo album by Karen Matheson, lead singer of the Scottish band Capercaillie. The album was released in 1996 by Survival Records and reissued in North America by Valley Entertainment in 2000.-Track listing:...
, Downriver
Downriver (album)
Downriver is the third studio album by Karen Matheson, lead singer of the Scottish band Capercaillie.-Track listing:# "Chi Mi Bhuam" – 4:27# "Cronan Bleoghainn" – 5:01#*"Cronan Bleoghainn"#*"'S moch an diugh gun d'rinn mi eirigh"...
, and Time To Fall
Time to Fall (album)
Time to Fall is the second studio album by Karen Matheson, lead singer of the Scottish band Capercaillie.-Track listing:# "All the Flowers of the Bough" – 4:31# "Morning" – 4:40# "Time to Fall" – 4:08# "My Whispered Reason" – 2:11...
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Solo Career - Albums
- Sawdust In My Veins (Survival 1998)
- My Thrawn Glory (Vertical 2000)
- I Shot The Albatross (Vertical 2002)
- Holy Love (Vertical 2004)
- Strange Flowers (Vertical 2009)