Fred Morrison - Outlands

2009 release from the Scottish bagpipe player. Bagpipes playing Bluegrass? It might sound like a gimmick, but for the brilliant Scottish piper Fred Morrison, one of Celtic music's most profoundly skilled and audaciously inventive exponents, it's a wholly natural alliance. Outlands features such top Americana luminaries as producer Gary Paczosa (Dolly Parton, Dixie Chicks, and Nickel Creek), banjo/guitar ace Ron Block (Alison Krauss & Union Station) and Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist Tim O'Brien, exploring the inherent connections Morrison perceives between their traditions and his.