Local songwriter and musician Dave Arcari has released a new studio album - with some of the tracks drawing heavily from his life in rural Stirlingshire.
‘Devil May Care’ features two locally influenced songs - Devil May Care (about the Devil’s Pulpit and the Whangie) and a new version of Loch Lomond.
“There’s two natural phenomena close to where I live,” said Dave. “The first – the Whangie – is a hill in the Kilpatrick Hills – at the top a slice of the hillside is separated from the main slope and forms a narrow chasm up around 10 metres high and about 100 metres long. Legend has it that the split in the rock was created when the devil flew over and cracked its tail in a rage after holding black mass at the nearby Devil’s Pulpit – the other natural phenomenon referred to.
