Recorded Live By Alan Lomax - Scottish Drinking And Pipe Songs
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Artist: Recorded Live By Alan LomaxEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2009-11-11
Music Label: Legacy International
Soundtracks:
- Bagpipe Pipe Tunes: Hail Ro Ruadh Waternish/Daldownie's Reel/The Spider In The Gaff/Slow Gaelic Air
- I'm A Young Bonnie Lassie
- Never Wed An Old Man
- He Widna Wint His Gruel
- My Rovin' Eye
- Jock MacGraw
- My Son David
- Johnny O'Braides-Lee
- MacPherson's Lament
- Lament For William Chisholm
- Blue Bonnets Over The Border
- Three Waulking Songs And A Song For Finishing The Cloth
- Gentle Lady
- Soldier's Song
- Mouth Music
- The Sister's Lament
- Song Of The Thrush
- Dandling, Spinnish And Waulking Songs
- Pipe Imitations
- Johnny Lad
- The False Lover Won Back
- Aikendrum
- The Gairdener Chyld
- The Maid Gaed To The Mill
- The Elfin Knight
Music reviews of Scottish Drinking And Pipe Songs
Music Review: reissue of 2 great Tradition Records LPs: "Heather and Glen" & "Classic Scots Ballads"
Rating: 4 Stars
This CD is a reissue of 2 great Tradition Records LPs, "Heather and Glen", and just part of "Classic Scots Ballads". These traditional songs were crafted hundreds of years ago in the highly poetic culture of Scotland.
"Heather and Glen" holds field recording made by Alan Lomax, Calum McLean, and Hamish Henderson in 1950-51. The short notes that accompany the CD are a hack job, skimmed from Lomax's LP notes, with addded misleading references pubs and whiskey. The first side of the original LP has Scots Lowlands songs, including the magnificent Aberdeen singer Jeanie Robertson (v. The Queen Among the Heather: The Alan Lomax Portait Series ). The second side of the LP has Gaelic songs from the Hebrides: waulking songs (to thicken newly-woven wool), a wonderful milking song, and passionate lyrical songs. I feel that these early recording by Flora MacNeil (Lament for William Chisholm & Sister's Lament) are perhaps more direcly impassioned than her later CDs such "Craobh Nan Ubhal". I see that the waulking songs are part of the recently-issued "Gaelic Songs of Scotland: Women at Work in the Western Isles". I can only hope that the group working on the Alan Lomax collection will continue by issuing CDs for Flora MacNeil and Alan MacDonald.
Tracks 20-25 are from "Classic Scots Ballads", an early collaboration by Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger, who did much to build the British folk song revival. The full LP was reissued in 1997, with extensive liner notes.
The reason that I mention the CD's pitiful liner notes, is because the notes should help us understand the depth and cultural background of the songs. For example, we should know that "Lament for William Chisholm" was composed (probably by his widow) after the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1746. The Gaelic words weave together love, and pride and a great sense of personal loss for her fair young husband:
"O young Charles Stuart, it is your cause that left me desolate.
You took from me everything I had, in the war for your sake.
I do not mourn for my sheep or cattle, but for my husband.
Since that day, I was left a widow with nothing in the world but my shirt.
O my fair young love."
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