Song collections: Bothy Ballads

Songs from farm labourers in the north-East of Scotland.


Ewan MacColl.

Title.Year.Label.number.
Bothy Ballads of Scotland1961Folkways FW 8759

Bothy Nichts.

Title.Year.Label.number.
The Fife Yokels - Bothy Nichts Volume 1: Welcome to a Bothy Nicht?1966Thisle BSLP  106S
The Angus Cronies - Bothy Nichts Volume 2?1966 Ythan TrustYCD05 

Various artists.

Title.year.Label.number.
Bothy Greats? TangentTNGM 109 
Scottish Tradition 1 - Bothy Ballads: Music From the North-East1993Greentrax CDTRAX9001 

John Strachan (1875 - 1958).

Title. year. Label. number.
Songs From Aberdeenshire 2001 Rounder  82161-1835-2

John Strachan and others.

Title. year. Label. No.
1951 Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh (live) 2006Rounder  1786 

Davie Stewart (1901 - 1972).

Title. year. Label.
Davie Stewart c 1970  
Go On, Another Song c 1970  

Jimmy MacBeath (1894 - 1972).

Title. year. Label.
Wild Rover No More 1967  
Tramps and Hawkers    

Album tracks.

Song From Aberdeenshire. The Alan Lomax Collection.  All tracks recorded on 16th July 1951, except tracks 22 and 23, recorded later in 1951. Issued 2001. Running time 60 mins 42 secs. Solo vocal on all tracks except tracks 11, 19 and 22 where there is a chorus of friends. The liner notes consist of 40-page booklet containing all the words of the songs.

Title.

Author
1. The Hairst o Rettie [+] William Park
2. The Miller of Straloch [+] Trad
3. Glenlogie [Child No 238] Trad
4. The Beggar Man [ Child No 279 Appendix] Trad
5. Rhynie (with chorus) Trad 
6. The Merchant's Son (fragmentary. With introduction) [+] Trad 
7. The Minister's Daughters They Were There [The Ball of Kirriemuir] Trad 
8. Fragments: Loch Leven Castle, Fin the Bed Began to Heat (Tail Toddle), Cuckoo's Nest. With commentary] Trad 
9. Binnorie, O Binnorie [The Twa Sisters][Child No 10] Trad 
10. The Knight and the Shepherd' s Daughter [Child No 110] Trad 
11. The Stootest Man in the Forty Twa (with chorus) Trad 
12. Bonny Udny [+] Trad 
13. The Bonny Lass O Fyvie Trad 
14. Clyde's Water [Child No 216] [+] Trad 
15. The Laird O Drum [Child No 236] [+] Trad 
16. Robin Hood [Child No 114] Trad 
17. Macpherson's Rant [+] Trad 
18. The Guise O Tough [+] Trad 
19. Johnnie O Braidislie [+] (with chorus) Trad 
20. The Bogheid Crew [+] Trad 
21. Harrowing Time [+] Trad 
22. Where the Gadie Rins (*) [+] (with chorus) Trad 
23. Lang Johnnie More [Child No 251] (**) Trad 
24. I Had Some Far Better Verses than That [interview] [+] N/A
(* recorded 17th July 1951)
(** recorded 20th July 1951)
(+ previously unissued)
(Alan Lomax can be heard on tracks 6, 7, 23 and 24)

Last updated on 20/10/2010