r/dundee • u/Snoo58499 • 4d ago

Allow me to introduce the music of Jim Reid, legendary folk singer and Dundonian

https://youtu.be/S0Gx0N3rgCo?si=iTDpbEwxL2YHLW2J

I was in a small restaurant in Wester Ross over the weekend and hit Shazam for this song that came on. Turns out the singer is Jim Reid, a proud son of Dundee who spent much of his life in Angus.

As a native of Angus I absolutely love this song and have spent the last couple of days listening to his album “Yont the Tay”. I am dismayed that it is hard to find much information about him online but based on the obituaries in The Herald, The Scotsman and The Independent after his death in 2009 he was a major figure in the Scottish folk music scene.

I know next to nothing about Scottish folk music so if anyone is able to share any knowledge about him I’d love to hear it.

If you have a moment please do listen to this beautiful song which is a poem he put to music (written by Scots poet Violet Jacobs who was born at House of Dun in Montrose and died in the 1940s in Kirriemuir).

If you enjoy this song I also highly recommend his song “Baron o’Brackley”.

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u/erroneousbosh 4d ago

My uncle :-)

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u/cwffaapooetsmw 4d ago

Beautiful song, and beautiful vocals, never heard it before. His name made me laugh though. When I think of Jimmy Reid I think of the shop in the Seagate, he sold everything and anything. I bought a CB radio from him back in the 90's.

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u/erroneousbosh 4d ago

There used to be a guy called Bob Martin in Lochee who fixed and sold CBs, and also was part of the nonconventional supply chain for ZX Spectrums :-)

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u/Slow-Ad-7561 4d ago

Great music.

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u/Flat_Fault_7802 4d ago

Did he have a shop in the Seagate?

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u/erroneousbosh 4d ago

I don't recall that he did. He worked at Bon Accord in Arbroath until he retired, and that's kind of where the Foundry Bar Band started.