Kris Drever
Kris Drever (born 1978 in Orkney, Scotland) is a Scottish contemporary folk musician and songwriter, who came to prominence in 2006 with the release of his debut solo album, Black Water. Drever is the vocalist and guitarist of the award-winning folk trio Lau alongside Martin Green and Aidan O'Rourke, and has worked with numerous other British folk contemporaries including Kate Rusby, John McCusker, Ian Carr, Eddi Reader and Julie Fowlis. Kris plays an Atkin J45 acoustic guitar.
Career
Drever was born in Kirkwall,Orkney, where he learned to play guitar and participated in the island's folk festival. In 1995 at age 17 he moved to Edinburgh, where he played at the Tron Ceilidh House several nights a week. He played the double bass for a time but returned to the guitar where his style – "a highly individual blend of rhythm and harmony, folk, jazz, rock and country inflections" – made him a sought after session musician.
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ALBUMS
- Storymap released: 2013
- Mark the Hard Earth released: 2010
- Before the Ruin released: 2008
- Honk Toot Suite released: 2006
- Black Water released: 2006
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Farewell To Fiunary
by: Kris DreverThe wind is fair, the tide is fine
And swiftly, swiftly runs the time
The boat lies wating on the tide
To carry me from Fiunary
We must up and haste away
We must up and haste away
We must up and haste away
Farewell, farewell tae Fiunary
A thousand, thousand tender ties
Awake this day my plaintive cries
My heart within me almost dies
At the thought of leaving Fiunary
We must up and haste away
We must up and haste away
We must up and haste away
Farewell, farewell tae Fiunary
I'll often wonder late of day
Where Ossian sang his martial lay
And viewed the sun's departing ray
Farewell, farewell tae Fiunary