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

Lucy Stewart

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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.

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101	The Battle O' Harlaw - Child 163	Lucy Stewart	6:17
102	Two Pretty Boys - The Two Brothers - Child 49	Lucy Stewart	3:43
103	Tifty's Annie - Child 233	Lucy Stewart	4:37
104	The Laird O' Drum - Child 236	Lucy Stewart	5:21
201	Doon by the Greenwood Sidie O - Cruel Mother, The - Child 20	Lucy Stewart	5:11
202	Beggar King, The - Child 279	Lucy Stewart	3:19
203	Bonnie Hoose O' Airlie, The - Bonnie House O' Airlie, The -	Lucy Stewart	4:33
204	Barbary Allen -Barbara Allen - Child 84	Lucy Stewart	3:04
205	Swan Swims So Bonnie O, The - Two Sisters, The - Child 10	Lucy Stewart	3:40

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

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