"It is his humanity which shines through in his work's very accessibility. A lot of songs are inspired by his rural upbringing in Perthshire, but as many are from tales he's gathered in his trips round the world performing what he modestly calls "these wee songs of mine." MacLean is simply an artist of the twenty-first century writing songs for our times which have a strong sense of place and history."
Stuart Ferguson
(The Scotsman)
