Song:All You People
Album:Another Ten Years
Seven Nations is an indie band that incorporates Celtic music elements like bagpipes. Most of their success has been as a touring band. The lead singer and songwriter of Seven Nations is Kirk McLeod. He is from Florida. He moved to New York and started Seven Nations in 1993 while working as a bartender. The other original members were Neil Anderson on bagpipes, Jim "Struby" Struble on guitar and bass and Nick Watson on drums. McLeod learned to play bagpipes at summer camp. The band was called Clan Na Gael but there was already a band with that name so it was changed to Seven Nations. Seven Nations has recorded on their own label since 1994. Anderson and Watson left in 1998 and were replaced by Scott Long on bagpipes and Ashton Geoghagan on drums. They also added fiddler Dan Stacey. What got Seven Nations a lot of attention was when they appeared in a Dewar's Scotch ad campaign from 1999-2002. They also appeared on a PBS special. It led to their only major label release on Razor & Tie. All You People is from the 2000 album Seven Nations. They also performed it on the 2001 CD/DVD Live At The Palace Theatre which is out of print. But you can get part one of this two part comp as a digital download. McLeod and Struble still lead Seven Nations. Their latest CD was released in 2014 and they are currently on tour. Here's Seven Nations performing All You People at the Palace Theatre in Albany, NY St. Patrick's Day 2001.
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