Robert Burns & Mike Ogletree
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Mike Ogletree aka Blaxcot is an African-American-Scotsman.
In 1956 he was the first African American to be born in Scotland. Son of a US Airman and a Scots lass, he was born and raised in Burns Country - Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, a place frequented often by the Scottish Bard Robert Burns.
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He played drums with the Scottish rock band Simple Minds and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
His latest work, inspired by the poems of Burns, borrows from the title of the poet's first publication:
THE KILMARNOCK EDITION
SONGS CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT
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The words are Burns
The music and pictures are blaxcot.
Check out Green Grow The Rashes O.
Website URL: http://www.myspace.com/blackscot
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/blaxcot
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Hey.
Did you know that the first black man to be born in Scotland is alive and living in Brooklyn, New York?
No sh*t!
Yeah, Mike Ogletree, calls himself blaxcot, used to play drums with the Simple Minds, he's Old Skool. Got a new album coming out of funky reggae Scottish poetry by a guy name Robert Burns. Makes videos too. On the Youtube, check out Green Grow The Rashes O.
Guys got talent.
Damn straight.
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