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General Scottish DVDs

Heather and Glen

by Compilation

Alan Lomax, who died in 2002, was a celebrated American musicologist and folklorist, who was renowned for his field recordings of folk music from around the world, assembling a treasure trove of American and international culture in his archive. Here we have an invaluable collection of folk songs and folk music from Aberdeenshire and the Hebrides collected by Alan Lomax, Calum McLean and Hamish Henderson in 1951.

Many of the artists he recorded have themselves become legendary figures of the traditional music genre. Jeannie Robertson was awarded an MBE for her services to preserving Scottish folk songs, and along with Flora McNeill and John Burgess ("The King of the Highland Pipers") has been inducted into The Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame.

The booklet reproduces Alan Lomax's original sleeve note, which gives fascinating and detailed background to the artists and songs and how they were recorded.

Media Reviews

This is a seminal 19-track collection of traditional, unaccompanied song and pipe music from Aberdeenshire and the Hebrides. Collected in the early 1950s (and kick-starting the School of Scottish Studies) by American folklorist and academic Alan Lomax – with Calum McLean and Hamish Henderson – it was originally released on the Tradition label in 1959. Jimmy McBeath gives us his pawky 'He Widn'a Want His Gruel', while Jeannie Robertson warns that when you're young 'Never Wed An Auld Man' in beautifully pungent Scots. Elsewhere, from Barra, we have the young Flora McNeill's 'Lament For William Chisholm'. A priceless slice of history....Norman Chalmers

	Scotland on Sunday
	This is a seminal 19-track collection of traditional, unaccompanied song and pipe music from Aberdeenshire and the Hebrides. Collected in the early 1950s (and kick-starting the School of Scottish Studies) by American folklorist and academic Alan Lomax – with Calum McLean and Hamish Henderson – it was originally released on the Tradition label in 1959. Jimmy McBeath gives us his pawky 'He Widn'a Want His Gruel', while Jeannie Robertson warns that when you're young 'Never Wed An Auld Man' in beautifully pungent Scots. Elsewhere, from Barra, we have the young Flora McNeill's 'Lament For William Chisholm'. A priceless slice of history....Norman Chalmers

Customer Reviews

	This CD is a gem! Mairi O'Sullivan
	There's allsorts on this album! Great piping from John D Burgess and was there ever a singer like Flora McNeill? What a voice! This CD comes from recordings made in 1951 when Flora was young and her singing of 'Lament for William Chisholm' a widow's grief for her young husband lost in battle in 1746 is just beautiful. Loved the waulking songs and the peerless Davie Stewart from Dundee accompanying himself on melodian.

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Tracks

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1.	Blanche Wood - I'm A Young Bonnie Lassie
2.	Jeannie Robertson - Never Wed An Old Man
3.	Jimmy McBeath - He Widn'a Want His Gruel
4.	Jeannie Robertson - My Rovin' Eye
5.	John Strachan - Jock MacGraw
6.	John Burgess - Bagpipe Tunes : Hail Ro Ruadh Waternish/Daldownie's Reel/The Spider In The Gaff/Slow Gaelic Air
7.	Jeannie Robertson - My Son David
8.	John Strachan - Johnny O' Braideslee
9.	Davie Stewart - MacPherson's Lament
10.	Flora Mc Neill - Lament For William Chisholm
11.	John Burgess - Blue Bonnets Over The Border
12.	Annie Nicholson - Waulking Songs
13.	Kate Nicholson - Gentle Lady
14.	Alan MacDonald - The Soldier's Song
15.	Allistair McLean & Friends - Mouth Music
16.	Flora Mc Neill - The Sister's Lament
17.	Calum Johnson - The Song Of The Thrush
18.	Mrs Annie Mc Neill - Dandling, Spinning And Waulking Songs
19.	Mary Morrison - Pipe Imitation