Traditional Singer from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Vol. 1 - Child Ballads

by Lucy Stewart

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1.	The Battle O' Harlaw - Child 163 06:17	buy track
2.	Two Pretty Boys - The Two Brothers - Child 49 03:43	buy track
3.	Tifty's Annie - Child 233 04:37	buy track
4.	The Laird O' Drum - Child 236 05:21	buy track
5.	Doon by the Greenwood Sidie O - Cruel Mother, The - Child 20 05:11	buy track
6.	Beggar King, The - Child 279 03:19	buy track
7.	Bonnie Hoose O' Airlie, The - Bonnie House O' Airlie, The - 04:33	buy track
8.	Barbary Allen -Barbara Allen - Child 84 03:03	buy track
9.	Swan Swims So Bonnie O, The - Two Sisters, The - Child 10 03:40	buy track

about

Folklorist Kenneth Goldstein recorded these nine ballads by Scotland singer Lucy Stewart in her own home and under relatively natural conditions (the children were shooed away). Goldstein writes in the liner notes that Stewart's singing was "exceedingly spirited, fast paced and fragmentary. That is, in the course of conversation she would suddenly break into song, singing one or two verses, unless prodded to finish the piece." Over the course of the year Goldstein spent with the Stewart family, he recorded 175 songs from Lucy Stewart alone—and Stewart was the only member of her family to not read any music or play an instrument! Liner notes include explanations from Goldstein, photographs of Lucy Stewart singing, and song lyrics.