Songs of Robert Burns

by Ewan MacColl

Songs of Robert Burns cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1959
  • Label: Folkways
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 35:52
  • Community rating: 3.19/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The preeminent figure of the British folk revival pays scholarly, deeply authentic tribute to the revered eighteenth-century Scottish poet. His unadorned, often unaccompanied vocal performances resurrect the regional dialect and historic resonance of the original texts, refusing to sanitize them for commercial audiences. It stands as a vital ethnographic preservation of Scottish literary and musical heritage.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, acoustic

Tracklist

  1. Green Grow the Rashes, O (2:16)
  2. Landlady, Count the Lawin (1:19)
  3. I Maun Hae a Wife (2:10)
  4. O That I Had Ne'er Been Married (1:33)
  5. Galloway Tam (0:51)
  6. I Hae a Wife O' My Ain (0:46)
  7. There's Cauld Kail in Aberdeen (0:47)
  8. A Braw Wooer (2:31)
  9. The Rantin Dog, The Daddie O't (0:47)
  10. Ay Waukin, O (2:12)
  11. Duncan Grey (1:04)
  12. Wha'll Mow Me Now? (2:16)
  13. Rattlin Roarin' Willie (0:51)
  14. Hey Ca' Thro' (0:45)
  15. To Daunton Me (2:46)
  16. Jumpin John (0:49)
  17. What Can a Young Lassie Do Wi' an Auld Man (3:14)
  18. The Dusty Miller (0:47)
  19. Tibbie Dunbar (0:59)
  20. The Cooper O' Cuddy (1:23)
  21. She's Fair and Fause (1:38)
  22. The Deil's Awa Wi' Th' Exciseman (1:21)
  23. A Man's a Man for A' That (2:37)

Credits

  • Ewan MacColl - primary artist, vocals
  • Ronald Clyne - sleeve
  • Robert Burns - written-by, collected by

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