Calum Johnston
About the artist
Calum Johnston was born in the island of Barra, in the Outer Hebrides, in the year 1891. He grew up on his fathers croft near Castlebay, along with his sister Anna and six other brothers and sisters. In time Anna became a schoolteacher in Castlebay, while Callum moved to Edinburgh where he worked as a draughtsman with Bruce Peebles Industries Ltd, upon retirement, Calum returned to Barra and lived with his wife, Peggy, at Eoligarry in the north end of the island.
Top songs
- Thug Mi Gaol Dhuit
- Ig Ig Igein
- Clach mhin mheallain
- Interstate 94
- Interstate 40...i
- Interstate 90
- Pseudotsuga...i
- ES:1999
- Interstate 40...ii
- Interstate 80
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- Pseudotsuga...ii
- John Fahey
- Northwest Passage
- Clan Mhin Mheallain
- Interstate 29
- Pipe Reels
- Cro Chinn Taile
- Black Donald's March
- Clach Mhin Mheallain (Rune Against Hail)
- Bagpipe and Dancing: Strathspey and Reel
- Blue Ridge Mountains
- First Days in Appalachia
- Agua Verde
- Thug Mi Gaol Dhuit (Spinning Song; Castlebay, Barra, 1951)
- Ig ig igein (The Lark's Song)
- Final Days in Appalachia
- ABC Liquor Store - Charlottesville, VA
- Nam Biodh agam Giobal Bodaich
- West Texas Oil Fields
- Nashville
- Sunset Over Asheville
- TVZ
- Fayetteville, AR
- Sunrise Over LA
- Clan Mhin Mheallain (Rune Against Hail; Castlebay, Barra, 1951)
- Thug Mi Gaol Dhuit (Spinning Song)
- End of the Road
- Grundy County, TN
- Goodbye
- West Memphis Pilot/North Little Rock Greyhound
- El Paso to LA
- Southwest Depression (Flagstaff-Denver)
- Storm Over Grand Junction Parts 1&2
- Na Faighinn Gille Ri Cheannach
- Ig Ig Igein (The Lark's Song; Barra, 1951)
- Doctor Who - The Eleventh Doctor Regenerates - Matt Smith to Peter Capaldi
- Oran Eile Don Phrionnsa = Another Song To The Prince
- Sleeping Under the Bright Lights of the Victorville Strip Malls
- March Mix 2010
- Oran Eile Don Phrionnsa (Another Song To The Prince)
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- Oran Do Mhacleoid Dhunbheagain (A Song To MacLeod Of Dunvegan)
- Ig ig igein - Calum Johnston
- The Paper Mache Mountains of the West
- The Old Men of the Shells
- Ambient no. 1
- Ambient no. 4
- Unidentified Gaelic song (II)
- Faigh a nuas dhuinn am botul
- Unidentified spinning song
- Alasdair Mhic Cholla Ghasda
- O Iain Ghlinn Cuaich (Oh John Of Glencuaich)
- Oran a' Smeoraich (Song Of The Thrush)
- Commentary on Phiuthrag 'S A Phiuthar (Little Sister)
- A Bhradag Dhubh (II)
- Oran na h-uiseig, Ig ig igein (Song Of The Lark) (II)
- Outskirts of Flagstaff
- Fuirich An Dirgh Gus Am Maireach (Wait Today Until Tomorrow)
- MacIntosh Lament (Pibroch)
- November Mix
- Jig
- Failte Dhruim Fionn
- Fuirich An Diugh Gos Am Maireach
- Translation of Fuirich An Diugh Gos Am Maireach
- 'S Tus' A' Chuibeheal
- Unidentified Gaelic song (I)
- Latha dhomh ?s mi ?m beinn a? cheathaich (II)
- Clach mhin mheallain (Rune Against Hail) (fragment)
- Oram Eile Don Phrionnsa (Another Song To The Prince)
- Unidentified song of Alasdair MacColla
- Fuirich An Diugh Gus Am Maireach (Wait Today Until Tomorrow)
- Interstate 15...I
- Interstate 15...II
- xxxxxxThug Mi Gaol Dhuit (Spinning Song)
- Thug mi gaol dhuit - Calum Johnston
- Clach mhin mheallain - Calum Johnston
- Pseudotsuga - Part 1
- Interstate 40 - Part 1
- Interstate 40 - Part 2
- A bhean as thall a rinn an gaire
- A bhean ad thall a rinn an gaire (Woman over there who laughed)
- High Plateau Blues
- Warm Flesh/Cold Concrete
- Mackintosh Lament
- Oran Eile Don Phrionnsa
- Fuirich an Diugh Gus am Maireach
- Oran do Mhacleoid Dhunbheagain
- Da war mal ein Junge
- Am Bothan A Bh'aig Fionnghuala (Fionnghuala's Bothy)
- A Bhean As Thall A Rinn An Gaire (Woman Over There Who Laughed)
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