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

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

Track Listing

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

Album Info

Catalog Number(s)

FW03519, FG 3519

Year(s) Released

1961

Label/Collection

Folkways Records

Genre(s)

Celtic; World

Country(s)

Scotland; United Kingdom

Culture Group(s)

Scots

Instrument(s)

Vocals

Credit(s)

Lucy Stewart - Artist
 Kenneth S. Goldstein - Producer
 Miriam Schottland - Cover Artwork
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