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There has always been an independent spirit that runs through Scotland, no matter the current discussions that are being fought over on the line that separates the Saltire and the cross of St. George, the music sits proudly in the veins of all who either live North of Carlisle or who have grown up admiring it, the thought of the Highland mist, the taste of Scotch whisky hanging round like the rallying call from the Clans. Add though the touch of the Americana to the music, the big band scene, the brandy cask with 40 year old Balvenie shaking hands and embracing its Bourbon cousin Jack Daniels and seeing the heady mix meld into a debut album by the Red Pine Timber Company that is as sturdy as Scottish hospitality and as creative as the carvings of Mount Rushmore seen in pure sunshine.