The 35-seater plane shakes through savage winds as we approach the Shetland Isles. Below, the sea breaks against granite cliffs. It seems incredible that this elemental landscape of rock and icy water could have spawned a singer of the gentle country music more commonly associated with the still heat of the American desert.I've posted about Thomas Fraser once before, but this new piece about him and his music is of interest.Yet 70 years ago, a lobster fisherman called Thomas Fraser began picking up American Forces Radio on the wireless in his croft on the Isle of Burra. With a month's wages he bought a guitar and began playing what today's critics are now calling "some of the greatest American music you will hear".
The albums: Long Gone Lonesome Blues; You and My Old Guitar; Treasure Untold.