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FTX 261 - AMONG YON WHINNY KNOWES

SONGS FROM NORTH-EAST SCOTLAND

 

When we started recording Dialect & Folk Music "in the field" 1952, it was at a time when a number of enthusiast academics were beginning to take an interest in recording the speech and song of the Scottish "Lowlands". While Peter Kennedy was working in Northern Ireland, Irishman, Seamus Ennis, went to North-East Scotland, an area where both would later team up with Hamish Henderson. One of Seamus's first contacts in Aberdeen was Arthur Argo, grandson of the important Lowland Scots collector, Gavin Greig, and it was Arthur who introduced Seamus to most of the performers featured on this Aberdeenshire collection.
 

CAROLINE O' EDUINBURGH TOWN - THE ORANGE AND THE BLUE (THE NOBLEMAN'S WEDDING) - I'M A STRANGER FROM AMERICA - A LADY WAS WALKING (THE YOUNG AND SINGLE SAILOR) - AMONG YON WHINNY KNOWES (THECORNCEAKE) - THE BOSTON SMUGGLER - THE CONVICT MAID - THE BLEACHER LASSIE O KELVINHAUGH - THE SOUTER'S FEAST - WILLIE CUMMINS - GREEN GROW THE LAURELS - SCARBORO'S BANKS - THE GOLDEN VICTORY - THE SAILOR BOY - THE DARK-EYED SAILOR - THE WEALTHY MERCHANT (JACK MONROE) - THE DOWIE DENS O YARROW - GO AND LEAVE ME IF YOU WISH IT -. THE STUDENT BOY (DIED FOR LOVE) - THE DARLING PLOUGHMAN BOY - THE DE'IL AMANG THE TAILORS - THE BANKS OF SKENE

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