"Malcolm has one of those pure, warm folk voices (two parts Archie Fisher,one part Dick Gaughan) that one never tires of listening to."-- Dirty Linen.................... "One of the finest singing voices in Scotland in any style." -- The Living Tradition ................

Gallery of Images: Archive Section 1
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   (March 03) "Ten-gallon hat on a two-pint head". Babs captures Jim larking around with props from a theatre production in New Hampshire...or did the OBDs decide to go country and cash in with hits like "If I'd shot you when I wanted to I'd be out by now." Thanks for this one, Babs.
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   (Mar 03) Riba RIBA! Jim gets absolutely marracca'd at John and Suzi Wollenberg's in March 2003.
       
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   (Mar 03) It's amazing how one tiny bottle of beer can throw off balance a finely-tuned athlete. This is Jim outside Jean Rodden's house near Philadelphia.
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   (Jan 02) My son Sandy being tap-danced to sleep by celebrated Canadian fiddle-hoofer Natalie McMaster. This was at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in Feb 2002, where Old Blind Dogs had been nominated for "best CD" for the CD Fit? Tight-sporraned as we are, we failed to submit a large enough bribe to pick up the award.


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(Dec 02) Great picture of my all-time favourite shirt, which had a lengthy career in folk music before being retired to the world of fishing, like everything else old and green. This was its swan song. When will we see your likes again?

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(DEC 02) Bases are loaded at the bottom of the ninth at what turned out to be a very expensive game of baseball. Actually taken by Charlotte Cunningham during the Gab o Mey photoshoot near Banchory, DEC 02.

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(Aug 01) Robert Burns (centre) makes a now understandably rare public appearance in his home village of Alloway in Ayrshire, Scotland. He's looking well for his third century, although he is moving very slowly these days. Look how heavily begonged were this group of casual passers-by. In this posh area, people dress to the nines to go down to the Post Office.


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(Nov 2003) Accompanying fiddle tunes at the Taybank Hotel, Dunkeld, Scotland, 30th Nov 2003.Grrrrrnnhhhhh....A, A, A, A, Am, Am, Am, Am....

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(Dateless) It's a hard job touring, but someone has to do it. Here's Jim lounging in the pool at chez Dorie Jennings in Rochester, NY.

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(Sept 2002) Song workshop at Sebastopol Celtic Festival September 2002. Note the packet of throat sweeties on stage - no singing workshop complete without them.