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A re-mastered CD edition with improved sound and artwork was issued by Reveal Records in 2014, this audiophile vinyl edition uses these improved 2014 mixes to create the vinyl master.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark The Hard Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is a very impressive contemporary Scottish folk album, with a strong, slow-growing charm. Irish American multi-instrumentalist Tim O'Brien adds the sonic equivalent of subtle marker pen highlights to many songs with his mandolin, banjo, ukulele and harmony vocals. Roy Dodds (drums) Ewen Vernal (bass), Donald Shaw (keyboards) and guitarist Ian Carr play alongside producer and fiddler John McCusker and Kris.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIrish singer Heidi Talbot duets with Drever on The Banks of the Nile, as before, the album mixes old and new writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoo Hewerdine's country-gospel flavoured Sweet Honey in the Rock is up to his best writing. The Crown of London, by Drever's brother Duncan, is a pulsing number with a melody that simply bores into your brain and stays there, along with some great lyrics: \"The devil's made plans for the wealthy man \/ he'll never get to me\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe self-penned title-track is a stark, enigmatic waltz that's probably the best of them all, introducing a wintry theme that resurfaces over a number of his songs. There is a lovely version of The Call and the Answer, which fans of The Dubliners may know. Traditional ballad O' A' the Airts has especially fine backing vocals by Talbot, and the closing Freedom Come A'ye (featuring Karine Polwart) matches words by the great Scottish poet Hamish Henderson with the tune of Bloody Fields of Flanders, to strikingly solemn effect. 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His guitar work anchors each track with understated virtuosity, while a constellation of sympathetic collaborators--Rachel Sermanni, Euan Burton, Cahalen Morrison, Louis Abbott (Admiral Fallow) and Matthew Herd (Seafarers) among them - orbit around his songs, adding texture without ever obscuring the core.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDoing This For Love\u003c\/em\u003e doesn't romanticise struggle; instead, it honours it. These are songs about the unglamorous work of care, the quiet dignity in clocking in when you'd rather not, the small acts of devotion that rarely make headlines but sustain lives and relationships. 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