The Big Hewer

by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker & Peggy Seeger

Type: Album
Released: 1 January 1967
Label: Argo
Country: United Kingdom
Community rating: 3.97/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Broadcast on 18 August 1961, 'The Big Hewer' descends into the coalfields of Northumberland, Durham, South Wales and the East Midlands, its miners' testimony carried by MacColl's songs and a band including the young Dave Swarbrick on fiddle. Its title figure, a mythic giant of a collier, binds four coalfields' stories into a single portrait of the industry.

Genres

Audio Documentary
Industrial Folk Song

Descriptors: folk, storytelling, spoken-word, mining, archival

Tracklist

Side 1
Side 2

Credits

Ewan MacColl - primary artist, performer