Kevin Mckidd on BBC Radio Scotland Transcript [ part 1]
Janice Forsyth : so Kevin Mckidd’ s on the show you will see him if you’re a fan of ‘ Grey’s Anatomy which is just hugely successful in the States he’s one of the stars of that he’s based in LA he’s originally from Elgin and very much getting back to his musical local Elgin roots with ‘Speyside Session which is Kevin gathering together friends fellow musicians, family for a big session editing it down making an album and all the proceeds go to a children’s charity.
They played Raggle Taggle Gypsy from the album
Janice Forsyth : well that was fabulous Raggle Taggle Gypsy and playing guitar in that was a man of many talents you know him as an actor he’s also a musician to Kevin Mckidd welcome back to Scotland
Kevin Mckidd : oh thanks it’s good to be back how you doing ?
Janice Forsyth : I’m fine you come back every so often don’t you
Kevin Mckidd : I try to come back once or twice a year to see my family up in Elgin and get back to Glasgow and Edinburgh mainly I go up the North East to connect with all the family there.
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Kevin Mckidd on BBC Radio Scotland Transcript [ part 2]
Janice Forsyth : does that mean their adding some good Scottish words to their vocabulary
Kevin Mckidd : [ Laughs] a little bit they’ve got English accents actually but I try teach them the ‘old’ word
Janice Forsyth : so with the sessions you did 27 songs how many how many 15 made it to the record?
Kevin Mckidd: yeah 15 made it to the record and they’re the ones that we decide, because recordings on the album intentionally also due to time we didn’t have time to do multiple takes or to split people up, so we could do individual parts so we decided we were going to make a restriction and we rehearsed together until we feel the song was in the right place. Once we were happy with the feeling, of it then we would basically hit the record button.
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