Re: John McCusker?

If you'd care to hear more of his music, raid the archives of Temple Records
and Battlefield Band.  He joined BB at seventeen, right out of high school,
and played with them from 1991-2001, leaving the band to marry Kate Rusby
and join up with her.  Temple has/had two solo albums of his, "John
McCusker" and "Yella Hoose".  www.templerecords.co.uk

As someone I might call a friend, I'm hardly unbiased, so I' won't cast
opinions.  His fiddling style, however, might be best described as VERY
heavily Irish-influenced for a Scot.  In many ways, he actually grew apart
from Battlefield's heavy Scots traditions.  If you have access to the
albums, compare and contrast John's predecessor, the almighty Brian McNeill,
John, and John's BB successor, Alistair White (who comes from Shetland
fiddle traditions and the Isle of Lewis).

I make no excuses, however, for his choice (or lack thereof) of clothing and
hairstyle.  Methinks at times he must have picked up some of Ashley
MacIsaac's insanity in that regard.  <;-)