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Scots Songs and Ballads series

Bob Blair

Reaching for the High High Lands
Scots songs and ballads by Bob Blair - LTCD1001
The first in the series and fittingly by one of Scotland's finest traditional singers. a review of this CD
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Tracks: Kissin's Nae Sin, Cairn o' Mount, Bonny Peggy, A Wee Drappie O't Waly, Waly, Duncan Gray, It Was in the Toon o' Kelso, O Gin My Love Were a Pickle o' Wheat, The Collier Laddie, The Grey Silkie of Sule Skerry, Johnny Lad, Ye Hae Lien Wrang, The Bonnie Lassie o' the Mornin'

Jimmy Hutchison

Corachree
Scots songs and ballads by Jimmy Hutchison - LTCD1002
The second in the series by one another of Scotland's fine traditional singers. a review of this CD

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Tracks: Erin go Bragh, She Was a Rum One, Matty Groves, The Overgate, The Beggerman, I'll Lay Ye Doon Love, Phiege a Grath, Corachree, False Lover Won Back, The Spanish Lady, Lord Donald, D Day Dodgers.

Alison McMorland

Cloudberry Day
Scots songs and ballads by Alison McMorland- LTCD1003
Alison has a great reputation as a singer. This is her first solo album since Belt Wi Colours Three was released on LP back in the '70s.
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Tracks: Traiveller's Joy, Sailing's a weary life, Edom o' Gordon, Be Good Tae Me, The Twa Sisters (The Swan Swim's Sae Bonnie), Twa Years Ower Young, Happen Row The Flyting o' Life and Death, The American Stranger, Skippin' Bar'foot Through the Heather, The Belt wi Colours Three, Rowin Hard Against the Stream, Cloudberry Day

Maureen Jelks

Eence Upon a Time
Scots songs and ballads by Maureen Jelks- LTCD1004
Maureen comes from Dundee. She is devoting a lot of time to her singing and her reputation is growing radidly.
a review of this CD

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Tracks: Eence Upon a Time (When I Wis Young and Bonny), Mary Mild, Black Waterside, The Bonnie Hoose 0' Airlie, Fair Rosie-Anne, The Wimmen O' Dundee, Why Should I, Johnnie My Man, Donal Ogg, Silken Snood, The Cruel Mother, Eh'm A Dundee Lassie, Rue and Thyme, The Rantin' Laddie,

Tom Spiers

Allan Water
Scots songs and ballads by Tom Spiers- LTCD1005
Tom is from Aberdeenshire. He has recorded extensively with The Gaugers.

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Tracks: Rhynie, Pills of White Mercury , The Sailor Deceived, I'm A Workin Chap, Depression, Binnorie, Rollin in The Dew, Ythanside, The Wedding of Lachie McGraw, The Jauntin Car, Aqua vitae, Absence, He'll Nae Tak Liver, Bonnie Udny, Allan Water

Jack Beck

Half Ower Half Ower tae Aberdour
Scots songs and ballads by Jack Beck - LTCD1006
From Fife, Jack is held in high regard by all the singers in Scotland. He was a member of the Scots group Heritage. a review of this CD

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Tracks: Band o' Shearers, Dunfermline Feein' Mercat, Tattie Time, Fordell Ball, The Plaidie Awa, Sir Patrick Spens, The Gypsy Laddies, The Pills of Mercury, Willie's Fatal Visit, New Broken Token, Have you seen my Sister Mary?, The Twa Sisters, Tramps and Hawkers, Tattie Jock, The Donibristle Moss Moran Disaster,

Lasses Fair and Laddies Braw

Lasses Fair and Laddies Braw
Scots songs and ballads by Heather Heywood - LTCD1007
Since the 1988 release of her debut album "Some Kind of Love", Heather's voice has reached all parts of the World many people now regard her as one of Scotland's finest female singers.
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Tracks: Up and Awa' Wi' the Laverock, Two Bonny Boys, Logie o' Buchan, The Bonnie Wee Lassie Who Never Said No, Queen Among the Heather, Birnie Bouzle, Jamie Raeburn, The Auchengeich Disaster, The Lowlands of Holland, The Baron o' Brackley, The Terror Time, The Lichtbob's Lassie, Farewell to Whisky.

Ellen Mitchell

On Yonder Lea
Scots songs and ballads by Ellen Mitchell - LTCD1008

Ellen is from Glasgow, this is her first solo recording. a review of this CD

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Tracks: Willie Brewed a Peck o' Maut, Clyde's Waters, Bonny Boy, Mary Mild, The Ewe Bughts, The Feein' Time, Waes Me for Prince Charlie, Far Over the Forth, Lady Mary Anne, Rue and Thyme, The Birken Tree, Aince Upon a Time, The Twa Brithers, O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast

 

Ballad Tree (LTCD1051 -)

Ballad Trree

Alison McMorland & Geordie McIntyre
Ballad Tree
- LTCD1051
Ballads from two of Scotland's most passionate singers, whose wealth of knowledge and experience of traditional song is legendary.

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Tracks: The Wife Of Ushers Well, Lamkin, The Two Brothers, May Colvin, Braes O' Yarrow, Lover's Ghost, The Wee Toon Clerk, Tam Lin, Clerk Saunders, The Daemon Lover, King Orfeo.

Our complete catalogue now extends to over 20 CDs, grouped into various themes. Follow these links for more albums

 

 

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