Bothy Culture a result of his experiences of the early 1990s Glaswegian rave and house scenes and his experimentation with numerous types of world music. It was recorded solely by Bennett within his home studio. Bennett explained "Bothy Culture" celebrates not only his own country's Gaelic culture and music, but also the music of Islam, for which he held a long-lasting fascination due to its vocals, modes and instrumentation being "similar in emotion" to Gaelic music styles, and the music of Scandinavia, which he found to have the same heavy-beat rowdiness and "solitary sweetness" of the ceilidh music he played in his
The Bothy Band (in Ireland; Green Linnet Records in US; Polydor Records in UK), which received critical acclaim and established their reputation as a significant musical force in Irish traditional music. In 1976, they released their second album, "Old Hag You Have Killed Me", which also received critical praise and expanded their following. In 1977, they recorded what would be their last studio album, "Out of the Wind – Into the Sun". In 1979, the Bothy Band released a live album, "After Hours (Live in Paris)". During their four years together, the Bothy Band featured a variety of fiddlers. Original fiddler Glackin was