In February 2010, nine Scottish songwriters landed on a house in deepest darkest Perthshire and set about writing songs over a period of 5 days.

These songs were to be recorded that following summer and released to raise awareness of The Mental Health Foundation in Scotland and made available exclusively at two gigs in Glasgow and Edinburgh held in October of that year at The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival. Over 500 copies of the album were sold over those two nights. Since then the album has been completely unavailable. This collection of 14 songs, quite remarkable in its diversity, is now to be released on CD and Download by Scottish independent label Chemikal Underground this summer 2011. Go here: http://www.fruittreefoundation.com/

The songwriters involved are: James Graham (Twilight Sad), Scott Hutchison (Frightened Rabbit), Rod Jones (Idlewild), Jill O’Sullivan (Sparrow and the Workshop), Emma Pollock, Karine Polwart, Jenny Reeve, Alasdair Roberts and James Yorkston.

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