"Naked Voice is a cause for celebration. Years of song-gathering, learning and honing have gone into the package presented by Elspeth Cowie. This is traditional singing at its finest.
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traditional singing at its finest
"Naked Voice is a cause for celebration. Years of song-gathering, learning and honing have gone into the package presented by Elspeth Cowie. This is traditional singing at its finest, every word perfectly weighted."
Incomparably authoritative
Incomparably authoritative. Her unerring delivery combines a stern, stirring austerity with a quiet intensity to utterly compelling effect."
The great MacColls comment on the womens lot always moves me.
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The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry
A great ballad from the far north of Scotland.
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Alison Cross
This song has everything - a hypnotic tune, magic and a rattling good story line!
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A Sailors Life
A girl's lament for the loss of her sailor sweetheart.
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Mary, Mary/Fotheringay
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, the old nursery rhyme, is a folk memory of Mary Queen of Scots
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Dream Angus
A widely sung and well loved Scots lullaby
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Twa Sisters
A macabre old ballad of homicidal sisterly rivalrly in life and love.
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Green Grow the Laurel
The path of true love never runs smooth
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Guns an Drum
Otherwise known as Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye
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The Laird O' Elfin
One of the great courting riddle songs of the Scots tradition
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The Glenlyon Lament
A widow's lament.
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Can't Help Lovn' Dat Man
A favourite song from when I was growing up.
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Wonderful World
Twentieth century folk song.
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Auld Maid in a Garret
A condensed version of a music hall song
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MacCrimmon
Another learned from Lizzie. A Scots version of the great Gaelic lament for MacCrimmon of Skye, piper to McLeod. You can hear the pipes, even though there are none.
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