The music on this CD comes from the latest (2007) televised series of Transatlantic Sessions 3 with Jerry Douglas and Aly Bain. Against a backdrop of the Scottish Highlands, the music brings together the best of Nashville, Ireland and Scotland to perform what has been called “the greatest backporch shows ever”.

Music co-directors on the series, which is produced by Pelicula Films Ltd for BBC Scotland  are Jerry Douglas, who has worked with Nashville’s greatest names, and Scotland and Shetland’s own fiddle virtuoso Aly Bain MBE who assembled a special array of musicians and performers to play duets and set pieces in the atmospheric location of Strathgarry House near Killicrankie in the Perthshire Highlands.

Featuring: Joan Osborne, Iris Dement, Karen Matheson, Darrell Scott, Eddie Reader, Tim O'Brien, Julie Fowlis, Paul Brady, Cara Dillon, Same Lakeman, Bruce Molsky, Sharon Shannon, Catriona Mackay, Jim Murray, Fred Morrisn, Jenna Reid.

Transatlantic Sessions House Band: Jerry Douglas - dobro, steel guitar; Aly Bain - fiddle, viola; Russ Barenberg - guitar, mandolin; Phil Cunningham - accordion, piano, mandola; Donal Lunny - bouzouki; Donald Shaw - accordion, piano, harmonium; Todd Parks - bass; Michael McGoldrick - Irish pipes, whistle, flutes; James Mackintosh - percussion; Donald Hay - percussion; Ronan Browne - Irish pipes, whistles.