May 22, 2013
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Capercaillie
Heritage renewed
by James M. Manheim
posted 9/1/2003
Some people know the Scottish band Capercaillie mostly by the voice of its lead vocalist, Karen Matheson, who sang a stark Gaelic lament in the film Rob Roy. Matheson's singing is impossibly beautiful — Sean Connery has called hers "a throat surely touched by the hand of God" — but that's not all it is.
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