The Definitive Collection

Ewan MacColl - The Definitive Collection

The Definitive Collection
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Artist: Ewan MacColl
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-06-30
Music Label: Highpoint UK
Soundtracks:
  1. The Manchester Angel - Ewan MacColl,
  2. To the Beggin' I Will Go
  3. Sheepcrook and Black Dog
  4. Fourpence a Day - Ewan MacColl,
  5. Oh Dear Me
  6. The Collier Laddie
  7. The Carlton Weaver
  8. Morrisey and the Russian Sailor
  9. Turpin Hero
  10. Jimmy Wilson - Ewan MacColl, Seeger, Peggy
  11. The Black Velvet Band
  12. Hughie the Graeme
  13. The Baron O' Brackley
  14. Whae's Me for Prince Charlie
  15. The Sheepstealer - Ewan MacColl,
  16. Farewell to Sicily - Ewan MacColl, Robertson
  17. The Young Trooper Cut Down in His Prime
  18. The Press Gang
  19. The Sweet Kumadie
  20. Homeward Bound

Music reviews of The Definitive Collection

Music Review: Seems better with each playing, yet not a total success...
Rating: 3 Stars

I hate to disagree with prior reviewer Peter Durward Harris of Great Britain, whose writing I have followed since I got on the computer in the summer of 2001. We have similar tastes, considering that I am a Yankee, and have reviewed the same music many times. However, this Ewan MacColl CD only gave me sporadic pleasure. The first time I listened, I only liked six of the 20 tracks...the uptempo ones, the ones with the most accompaniment, the most familiar songs. The second play, I found I liked four more, 50 percent of the disc. I have been a folk fan for 45 years, and I am as Anglo-Saxon as any NJ-born guy could ever be. I heard ABOUT Ewan MacColl ever since the very early '60's, but never actually heard much BY him. I knew he wrote the ubiquitous "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and was married to Pete Seeger's sister. Then when I became a fan of the Pogues, I discovered his daughter Kristy, in her incredibly beautiful guest vocal on one of their CD's. Now I have "discovered" Ewan at last, but the selections on this release, overall, seem too sparse, slow and funereal for my taste. I think I will like him better when I can afford to buy discs of his sea songs or those he wrote or co-wrote.

Description of The Definitive Collection

Drawn from his extensive and highly influential Topic catalog from the late sixties onwards, The Definitive Collection is a wide-ranging anthology of traditional ballads and Ewan's own compositions reflecting Scottish and English historical ballads and commentaries on contemporary life as it was lived in the British Isles. It includes many performances new to CD. 20 tracks. Highpoint.

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