AN INVERNESS van driver is the “Voice of Inverness’’ to hundreds of holidaymakers all over the world. By day Stewart Ross a driver with a fruit and vegetable wholesaler, but at night he is one the folk who entertain tourists in the Northern Meeting Park concerts organised by the local amenities association. The visitors have snapped up Stewart’s records by the score and his songs, “The Highland Road" and “ Home to Inverness,*’ bring back many happy memories of holidays in the North of Scotland. So great has been the demand for Stewart’s discs that they are now almost all unavailable. That however, will be rectified shortly with the release of his first LP. Entitled “The Highland Road,” It will contain many favourites end some new items, including The Garden Of Skye, a number written by Stewart and Addie Harper, the leader of the famous Wick Scottish Band. We recorded the tracks in a studio at Elgin a few weeks ago and the album is scheduled for release in November,” Stewart told me. “ The backing Is provided by his own band, son Ronnie on accordion, Denny Kyte on guitar and John Stephen drums.” 30 September 1970 : Aberdeen Press and Journal
This primitively produced album, made by my father, was released in 1970 not 1972. The song Culloden Moor is wrongly credited as traditional on the cover, when it was in fact written by Croall and Banks, and recorded on a single by a trio called Mike, John and Sandy.