Scott Macdonald music

Scott Macdonald bio

singer/songwriter from Glasgow in Scotland and plays acoustic guitar and harmonica. Main influences are Neil Young, Xavier Rudd, Iggy Pop, JJ Cale, The Clash, Roy Harper, John Martyn, Nick Drake and Mike Scot. Grew up on the south side of Glasgow and first became addicted to music when saw The Clash in concert at the Apollo in Glasgow. After a year of playing pubs, clubs and busking in Australia returned to Scotland to release 1st album New Heart This picked up 4 star reviews from the list and the times plus frequent airplay from radio scotland. Since then I've supported and been on tour with artists :- Sea Sick Steve, Bert Jansch, The Handsome Family, Martin Stephenson, Gordon Haskell, Eddie Reader plus many more. I've appeared at T in the Park, Edinburgh Festival, The Highland Festival, The Ullapool Guitar Festival, Celtic Connections and at Belladrum Festival. I was based in the highlands for 5 years where I wrote my second album 'Where Travellers Go' which was recorded by Frankie Gibbon at Wild Trax studios county Durham. I joined together with Martin Stephenson to make 'Soul City' which martin recorded, produced and played on. Soul City was never properly release so I am going to do it this year. I'm now living in Glasgow again and have just recorded a new album titled 'COLLA" which is mainly an instrumental album COLLA is out now on itunes.