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Lass of Roch Royal is an improvisational rendering of Scottish and English ballad tunes, some over 300 years old, first collected by American scholar Francis James Child in the late 1800's.

"Cam's style of dulcimer playing is very melodic and evocative." (Carrie Crompton, Dulcimer Player News).

Joining Cammi are Dave Carlisle on acoustic guitar and fiddle; Tim Britton on uillean pipes, pennywhistle, wooden flute, and percussion; Mark Hawkins on mandolin; and Art Atkinson on recorder and accordian. Produced and engineered by Tim Britton.

Listen to Samples	MP3
1. The House Carpenter 2:38	listen
2. Bonny Barbara Allan 2:39	listen
3. Lass of Roch Royal 2:42
4. The Wife of Usher’s Well 2:29
5. Riddle Song 2:08	listen
6. The Death of Queen Jane 1:49
7. The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry 3:14	listen
8. The False Knight Upon the Road 3:27	listen
9. Proud Lady Margaret 2:22
10. Geordie 2:22	listen
11. The Three Ravens 2:16
12. The Gypsy Laddie 2:30
13. The Elfin Knight 2:47
14. The Twa Sisters 2:07
15. Lady Maisry 2:00
16. Gil Brenton 3:05	listen

 
"Cam's sensitive touch brings out the deep silence hiding between the notes. The result is a tribute to the simple beauty of the ballad tradition and of the human heart."

Tim Britton

"Cammi gives us haunting melodies that touch the soul."

Jack Engstrom

REVIEW
by Carrie Crompton, Dulcimer Player News

"Among dulcimer recordings, many once served me as inspiration and have come to serve as "identity reminders." One new one that gives me a lift each time I hear it is Cam Vaughan's Lass of Roch Royal, a collection of instrumental arrangements of the English and Scottish ballad tunes. We all know a few of these tunes: Barbara Allen, Geordie, The Gypsy Laddie. (Where do they take you back to? Family tradition? Hootnannies? A high school literature class? Joan Baez or Burl Ives recordings?) I would have thought most of these tunes would lose too much if divorced from their narratives: after all, if an AABB dance tune gets a little old after three repetitions, what are you going to do with a 16-bar AB song tune? Cam and associates find solutions to that very problem with creative arrangements which trade off the tune among the instruments (hammered dulcimer, fiddle, guitar, uillean pipes, pennywhistle, wooden flute, mandolin, percussion, recorder, accordian) and vary textures continually. Cam's style of dulcimer playing is very melodic and evocative. The liner notes say that the recording was made with a single microphone without overdubbing, equalization, compression, noise reduction or signal processing. I think the sound is magical; the microphone captures the resonance of the dulcimer without its percussive quality, thus removing it from "the present." It takes me back to childhood, when my mother sang me the old ballads. Cam Vaughan's tape reminds me of who I am and where I've been, and so is healing."