Bothy Ballads of Scotland

Artista: Maccoll, Ewan / Seeger, Peggy

Formato: COMPACT DISCS

Gravadora/Label: FOWY

Catalogo: 8759

Faixas: 1.1 The Keach in the Creel (Child #281)
1.2 I’m a Rover
1.3 The Scranky Black Farmer
1.4 The Band of Shearers
1.5 Jock Hawk’s Adventure in Glasgow
1.6 The Brewer Laddie
1.7 The Wind Blew the Bonnie Lassie’s Plaidie Awa’
1.8 The Monymusk Lads
1.9 The Muckin’ O’ Geordie’s Byre
1.10 Bogie’s Bonny Belle
1.11 Lamachree and Megrum
1.12 The Road and the Miles to Dundee
1.13 The Lothian Hairst
1.14 It Happened on a Day
1.15 I’m a Working Chap
1.16 Johnny Sangster
1.17 Drumdelgie
1.18 She Was a Rum One

In 19th-century Scotland, farm laborers would sleep in buildings called “bothies,” and the term bothy ballad emerged to describe the songs those farmhands composed. Performed here by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, the songs deal with the experiences of the farm workers, especially the plowmen, before the mechanization of agriculture changed the way of life and work. Other songs sung in the bothies were humorous and satirical, such as “The Muckin’ O’ Geordie’s Byre” on the subject of domestic upheaval. Liner notes include information on bothy ballads, and notes and lyrics for each song.