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Willie Grant
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A portrait of Blind Willie Grant taken from <i>East Neuk Chronicles</i> by William Skene (1905). Grant was a pianist who would accompany performers at regular "free-and-easies" held on Thursday and Saturday nights in the Wallace Tower and Mother M'Cuag's Caledonian Hotel on Castle Street. According to Skene, whatever the song, Willie could accompany it. Skene states that "It was not a bad job when these free-and-easies were stopped, as there was a fascination about these places that had an insidious effect on young men that was not easily shaken off, as I knew by experience." (page 35)
A portrait of Blind Willie Grant taken from
East Neuk Chronicles
by William Skene (1905). Grant was a pianist who would accompany performers at regular "free-and-easies" held on Thursday and Saturday nights in the Wallace Tower and Mother M'Cuag's Caledonian Hotel on Castle Street. According to Skene, whatever the song, Willie could accompany it.
Skene states that "It was not a bad job when these free-and-easies were stopped, as there was a fascination about these places that had an insidious effect on young men that was not easily shaken off, as I knew by experience." (page 35)
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PO02_16
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Aberdeen Local Studies
Aberdeen Local Studies
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Ed Fowler, quoting the East Neuk Chronicles, adds that "Mother McCuag's Caledonian Hotel was also claimed as in Exchequer Row".
Ed Fowler, quoting the East Neuk Chronicles, adds that "Mother McCuag's Caledonian Hotel was also claimed as in Exchequer Row".
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