Music Archive

l FOLLOWING last year's successful debut, the Scottish Album of the Year Award returns for a second year to celebrate, promote and reward the most outstanding albums released by Scottish artists in 2012.

l GLASGOW-born saxophonist Bobby Wellins has been nominated in the 2013 British Jazz Awards' Best Reissue category for his Birds of Brazil album.

As a tune title, Words to Signify a Meaning That Isn't Implied rather undersells the product.

There is a skill to instrument destruction.

Call me a cynic, but wasn't there a time when encores weren't just a mandated part of a band's set?

Bruce Molsky

In a Glasgow basement the two men and one woman who make up Scotland's possible – probable?

l Dunblane Cathedral Arts Guild has a concert by Glasgow-born cellist Katy Bell on Saturday.

A logger loses his fingers in a sawmill accident, gets laid off and paid off and is left heartbroken.

FUN.

The order of their names in the headline reflects the sequence in which they performed rather than any pecking order-style billing and it made for an interesting set of circumstances as these three politically conscious troubadours took their turns in the spotlight.

There are times when channelling Roger Moore seems appropriate.

l Christopher Herrick has a long association with St Paul's Cathedral.

As veteran producer Joe Boyd points out in his essential booklet notes, simple arithmetic suggests more people hear the songs of Nick Drake every month of the 21st century than listened to them in the brief candle of his working live almost 50 years ago.