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So, having written, arranged, performed, recorded and produced a whole album, I’ve only gone and submitted it for the Scottish Album of the Year Award!

It’s just bent out of shape a little

Last year, when I first suggested that I should record an album, I raised the possibility that it might be called ‘James Bisset & The Jazzrascals’. What happened?

The album was finally launched after much shenanigans today, 31st May 2023. It hit Bandcamp first, followed by Soundcloud and Youtube and then the bulk of the streaming services.

I was a guest recently on a podcast about songwriting as a craft for the grown ups, which also featured eight of my tracks. So here’s the track listing.

Help me create a splash! I’ve got at least ten tunes itching to blow my tiny mind!

As regular readers will have read previously in this erratic chronicle (you can take alliteration too far. Ed.), I’ve really enjoyed playing solo over the last couple of years.

Impossibly catchy, clever songs in this first solo release from James Bisset, longstanding member of cult folk-rock group Caedmon.

For years, my day job was building and managing websites. At night, I jammed and recorded, wrote tunes and played guitar but I earned my living designing, coding and developing for the web.

I was in Scotland recently, and bought a copy of the Sunday Herald, for a while there the only newspaper to support Scottish independence.