Festival 2008 - Fèis 2008
Iain Morrison & the Sleepy Café Band
Iain Morrison is a singer/songwriter/piper from the Isle of Lewis. He has a soft, intimate singing style that has been likened to Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake, except neither of them could play the bagpipes... His debut album 'Empty Beer Bottles & Peatfire Smoke' was unsurprisingly met with acclaim and established Iain as an emerging Scottish talent.
He now follows it up with new album 'Skimming stones...Sinking boats'
Morrison is justly gaining a cult following in folk circles. He specialises in spartan elegies, beautifully sung like Tom McRae's finest and similarly aware that what you leave out from a song can be as important as what you put in a song. Often moving listening.' - John Earls at Planet Sound
The Sleepy Cafe Band are Marc Duff ex Capercaillie (whistles/bouzouki) & Martin Kelly (guitar).
www.peatfiresmoke.co.uk
www.myspace.com/iainmorrisonpeatfire
