Love Songs & Fighting Talk
Janet Russell
Scottish
Harbourtown Records
Released: 31st August 2008
Catalogue Number: HARCD052
Barcode: 5034696101005
Running Time: 59 mins.
CD | £12.60 | The store is currrently closed for holidays. Stock will be able to be orderd from the 16th April 2024 | |
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A 'near oral traditional song ' album, the songs occasionally augmented with an instrument or two but never more than that.
And the traditional tunes have occasional new lyrics and vice versa.
Getting the picture? A traditional album that explores the traditions.
All jolly good stuff.
1) Pretty Polly.
2) Eppie Moray.
3) The Creole Girl's Lament.
4) Steely WAter - Donal Og.
5) Waxie's Dargle.
6) Mary Ambree.
7) Sodjer's Cairn.
8) Matt Hyland.
9) Collier Laddie.
10) Banks of Sweet Dundee.
11) My Laddie Sits - Maire Nighean Alastair - Gie My Love Brose.
12) The Pigeon & the Sparra.
13) Waly Waly Up the Bank.
14) Wexford Lullaby.
15) Willie Brewed a Peck o' Maut - Barren Rocks of Aden - Swing Yer Maw.
A 'near oral traditional song ' album, the songs occasionally augmented with an instrument or two but never more than that.
And the traditional tunes have occasional new lyrics and vice versa.
Getting the picture? A traditional album that explores the traditions.
All jolly good stuff.
Lineup
Janet Russell - Vocals, Guitar & Keyboards.
with
Steve Tilson - Guitar (Tk.6)
Tom McConville - Fiddle (Tk.7)
Gill Redmond - Cello (Tk.14)
Hajam Javed - Tablas (Tks.2,10&14).