Live At The Convent, 2016 - CD

The songs gathered here capture the restless spirit of Wilson and Blue Rose Code. Personal notes of trials and tribulations sit alongside a broader celebration of his Scots heritage, a statue carved out of a whole country's marble, as he sings on his adaptation of Hugh MacDiarmid's poem, Scotland. The naked intimacy of Pokesdown Waltz rubs shoulders with the romantic sweep of From Wester Ross to Nova Scotia, individual loss and the Celtic Diaspora entwined.

From these depths Wilson rises like a phoenix, the gentle celebration of life on Grateful and the pastoral litany of a west coast boat trip on Sandaig find him more at peace within himself and, like a prodigal son, returning to his beloved country. His hymns to the twin cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow capture the essence of both, Edina, a reclamation of his roots in Leith and Glasgow Rain a late night wander in neon-slicked streets. His recollection of the warrens of Whitechapel and the hustle and bustle of This Is Not A Folk Song,