Songs of a Scots Tinker Lady
Download links and information about Songs of a Scots Tinker Lady by Jeannie Robertson. This album was released in 1960 and it belongs to World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Celtic genres. It contains 12 tracks with total duration of 48:25 minutes.
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| Artist: | Jeannie Robertson |
| Release date: | 1960 |
| Genre: | World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Celtic |
| Tracks: | 12 |
| Duration: | 48:25 |
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Tracks
[Edit]| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | The Broken token | 4:23 |
| 2. | When I was Noo But Sweet Sixteen | 1:22 |
| 3. | The Butcher Boy | 5:34 |
| 4. | Brennan on the Moor | 4:56 |
| 5. | Go Away From My Window | 1:38 |
| 6. | Lord Lovat (Child #75) | 5:25 |
| 7. | The Overgate | 2:31 |
| 8. | The Four Marys (Child #173) | 4:31 |
| 9. | The Bonnie Wee Lassie Who Never Said No | 1:53 |
| 10. | The Gypsy Laddies (Child #200) | 5:16 |
| 11. | MacCrimmon's Lament | 5:18 |
| 12. | What a Voice | 5:38 |
Details
[Edit]Jeannie Robertson was a member of a Scots Tinker clan, a gypsy-like extended family of singers and musicians. After she was discovered in Aberdeen by the folklorist Alan Lomax in the early '50s, Robertson went on to make several albums of traditional Scots and English songs. This set, recorded with Josh MacCrae on guitar in 1959, is typical in that it includes variants of several of the Child ballads as well as other familiar texts, all of them delivered in Robertson's extremely distinctive voice. Blessed with one of the thickest Scots burrs ever captured on audiotape, Robertson's voice is a rich, deep instrument far removed from the twee soprano most commonly associated with traditional folk music of Great Britain in some listeners' minds. The song selection ranges from the murder ballad "The Butcher Boy," given a chillingly deadpan reading, to the lighthearted wit of "The Bonnie Wee Lassie Who Never Said No," a saucy tale of said lassie pulling one over on the lad who thinks he's taking advantage of her. Though lesser known than Robertson's original Lomax tapes, this album is every bit their equal.