English and Scottish Love Songs, by Ewan MacColl & isla Cameron

English and Scottish Love Songs

by Ewan MacColl & isla Cameron

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1.	Will Ye Gang To The Hielands 03:28	info	buy track
2.	The Bonny Miner Lad 01:36	info	buy track
3.	The Foggy Dew 03:31	info	buy track
4.	The Sprig Of Thyme 02:00	info	buy track
5.	It Was Under My Love's Window 02:38	info	buy track
6.	Still I Love Him 01:57	info	buy track
7.	The American Stranger 02:14	info	buy track
8.	Blackbirds And Thrushes 02:07	info	buy track
9.	O Sally My Dear 02:59	info	buy track
10.	Whistle, Daughter, Whistle 02:11	info	buy track
11.	Blow Away The Morning Dew 03:09	info	buy track
12.	To The Weavers Gin Ye Go 02:30	info	buy track
13.	The Bird In The Bush 01:53	info	buy track
14.	The Waters Of Tyne 01:18	info	buy track
15.	The Bleacher Lassie Of Kelvinhaugh 04:01	info	buy track
16.	Geordie 01:44	info	buy track
17.	Are Ye Sleeping, Maggie 03:04	info	buy track

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Transferred from the best quality vinyl we could find. The original masters are presumed lost.

How few love songs, how little love music at all. the great composers of the Anglo-Saxon world have produced! Hundreds of pieces have been written dealing with polite affection between lover and lass, with gentle heart-to-heart responses, with tears, idle tears — but the real bite of passion, the genuine evocation of erotic experience embraced without reserve and remembered with pride and joy, seems to be missing. Is it due to Puritanism, the climate, the food?

The answer would seem to lie in none of these things. For if we transfer our attention from the world of written music to the world of unwritten music, from the world of gentility to that of commoner folk, the picture changes. Certainly in the amatory folk songs of England and Scotland there is no lack of sensuous freedom and delight. So much so, that the scholar collectors have felt bound to modify the texts of many of the amatory songs before committing them to print, presumably in order to protect polite people from being contaminated by the songs of rougher men and women.

In this album, such songs are restored to their original form, as the collectors first found them. Not that any of these are dirty songs. Experienced collectors have found that the truly bawdy ballad, the ballad with an excess of graphic sexual detail, is found among students and uprooted men-without-women such as soldiers, sailors and prisoners. But among the "classical" folk singers, such songs are rare. The British amatory folk songs generally show a more permissive attitude to sex than their white American counterparts. They look the facts of life in the eye and tell of what they see, proudly, delicately, perhaps with a grin, but never a snigger. They are songs with a clean joy or sadness over the large realities of virginity and desire, passion and pregnancy. They are the love utterances of a people living a life in tune with the cycle of the seasons and the round of mating and increase.

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released May 17, 1958

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This site is maintained by the MacColl family, aiming to make Ewan's catalogue available to download.
Ewan MacColl is known to most as a songwriter and singer, but he was also of significant influence in the worlds of theatre and radio broadcasting. His art reached huge numbers through the folk clubs, greater numbers through his recordings and untold millions through the radio. ... more

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