I Shot the Albatross is the third solo studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter James Grant, released in the UK by Vertical on 2002.

Some of the poems [in The Rattle Bag] seemed to me very lyrical and I kind of liked the idea of fusing for example Rimbaud, Lee Dorsey and William Blake.

"[4] On its release, James McNair of Mojo wrote, "Here, the modest, uncompromising and gifted Grant makes what might have been pretentious sound human, his palette largely acoustic.

[6] Manchester Evening News concluded, "Grant has picked some particularly evocative verses and framed them so sensitively that you would need a heart of stone not to admire the results".

[7] Ninian Dunnett of The List noted that the album finds Grant doing his "best [to] whip up an atmosphere" and "concoct a rich stew of moody settings for [the] poems".