ALBUMThe Great White Sea EagleJames Yorkston, Nina Persson & The Second Hand Orchestra
Albums by James Yorkston
ALBUMThe Great White Sea EagleJames Yorkston, Nina Persson & The Second Hand Orchestra
ALBUMThe Wide, Wide RiverJames Yorkston & The Second Hand Orchestra
ALBUMThe Route to the HarmoniumJames Yorkston
ALBUMThe Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing SocietyJames Yorkston
ALBUMMy Yoke Is Heavy: The Songs of Daniel JohnstonAdrian Crowley & James Yorkston
ALBUMI Was a Cat from a Book (Bonus Track Version)James Yorkston
ALBUMFolk Songs (Bonus Track Version)James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players
ALBUMWhen the Haar Rolls InJames Yorkston
ALBUMWoozy With Cider - EPJames Yorkston
ALBUMThe Year of the LeopardJames Yorkston
James Yorkston's Popular Music Videos
Shallow
James Yorkston
Woozy With Cider
James Yorkston
Struggle
James Yorkston & The Second Hand Orchestra
The Irish Wars of Independence
James Yorkston
Martinmas Time
James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players
A Very Old-Fashioned Blues
James Yorkston & The Second Hand Orchestra
My Mouth Ain't No Bible
James Yorkston
Ella Mary Leather
James Yorkston & The Second Hand Orchestra
There Is No Upside
James Yorkston & The Second Hand Orchestra
Shipwreckers
James Yorkston
Artist Biography
A Scottish folk musician with a literary bent and unconventional approach, singer/songwriter and author James Yorkston emerged out of Fife's burgeoning indie scene in the early 2000s as part of the Fence Collective, which also included King Creosote, the Beta Band, and KT Tunstall among its ranks. He found commercial success just outside of the U.K. Top 75 with albums like 2004's Just Beyond the River and his fifth long-player, 2008's When the Haar Rolls In. The following decade, Yorkston's output became increasingly more cerebral in tone, with unique releases like 2014's Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society. Having already published a touring memoir, Yorkston branched out into fiction writing with his 2016 debut novel, Three Craws, before returning to the studio for records like 2019's exploratory The Route to the Harmonium and a pair of collaborative albums with Swedish producer Karl-Jonas Winqvist and the Second Hand Orchestra.