Caledonia Dreamin': Dougie MacLean and "Caledonia"

One of Scotland's premier singer-songwriters, Dougie MacLean, performs the random tune for today. Also a composer and multi-instrumentalist, Dougie MacLean was a driver for Doc Watson and Merle Watson during their tour around Europe in the 1970s. He has been a member of multiple folk bands, including The Tannahill Weavers in 1976 and Silly Wizard in the 1980s. He went solo in 1981 and has released numerous albums under his own name. He is most well known for composing The Gael, which was the theme song for the 1992 film The Last of the Mohicans, and for this song, Caledonia, which has been called Scotland's unofficial national anthem. In 2011, he was invested as an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) and in 2013 BBC 2 gave him a lifetime achievement award for contribution to songwriting. You can find Caledonia on the Alan Roberts and Dougie MacLean 1978 studio album Caledonia, on MacLean's 1983 solo album Craigie Dhu, on his 2014 album Till Tomorrow (recorded with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra), and on numerous other collections. I found it on the Putumayo Presents: Celtic Tides collection (1998). The song makes me ache for Scotland, and I've never been there.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dougie_MacLean