Anna McLuckie

Our latest Off the Shelf guest is Clàrsach player Anna McLuckie, whose latest release, “The Little Winters”, was one of our recent Featured Albums of the Month. She introduces us to the book she was named after, a pair of aggressively Scottish stools from her Grandad, a map lamp cut from an old Glasgow street map, invaluable notebooks (for the boring and emotional, for songs, poems, and dreams), and more.

“…an album that flits so easily between past and present, whose songs encompass fluttering beauty and quietly looming presences.” The Little Winters is an album worthy of the clàrsach, with all its historical and cultural importance, and Anna McLuckie, with her clear voice, poetic songwriting and precise, fluid playing, has announced herself as one of British folk music’s most formidable talents.

Anna McLuckie’s ‘The Little Winters’ is a profound exploration of Cianalas—a deep, Gaelic sense of displacement. Her lead single, “Bitten Winter Skin,” serves as the record’s intellectual and emotional anchor, traversing the seasonal frosts of the soul and transforming the bitterness of transition into a resilient botanical metaphor.