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Stairheid Gossip: Stirrin’ It Up

Stirrin’ It Up Stairheid Gossip Greentrax Recordings CDTRAX250 (CD, UK, April 2002)

Produced by Stairheid Gossip;
Recorded and mixed by Ian McCalman at Kevock Studios, Lasswade, Midlothian;
Photography by Alan Frank;
Front cover idea by Claire Lamond;
Sleeve design by John Slavin at The Living Tradition

Musicians

Claire Lamond: vocals [1-5, 7-9, 11-13, 15-17], backing vocals [14];
Rebecca McKinney: vocals [1-5, 7-9, 11-13, 15-17], guitar [15], whistle [15];
Sylvia McGowan: lead vocals [5], vocals [1-4, 7-13, 15-17];
Eileen Penman: vocals [1-9, 11-13, 15-17], backing vocals [14];
Elaine Wallace: lead vocals [14], vocals [1-5, 7-9, 11-13, 15-17], rainstick [15]

with
Billy Wallace: bodhrán [3]

Tracks

1. The Burning of Auchindoon (Roud 4010; Child 183) (2.57)
2. Bahlele Bonke (2.40)
3. King of the Castle (3.13)
4. Rantin’ Dog (Roud V5348) (1.50)
5. Harriet Tubman (2.48)
6. High Germany (Roud 5608) (3.56)
7. Women o’ Dundee (2.58)
8. Johnny I Hardly Knew You (Roud 3137) (3.29)
9. Didn’t Leave Nobody But the Baby (Roud 6373) (2.37)
10. Baron o’ Brackley (Roud 4017; Child 203; G/D 2:234) (3.27)
11. Igama Lama / You Can Put Me Down (3.07)
12. Ay Waukin O (Roud 6749, V16870; G/D 5:933) (3.49)
13. Cotton Mill Girls (Roud 11548) (2.30)
14. Bone Upon Stone (2.35)
15. Both Sides the Tweed (Roud 8913) (2.45)
16. Wagoner’s Lad (Roud 414) (3.22)
17. The Twa Corbies (Roud 5; Child 26) (2.36)

Tracks 1, 6, 10, 12, 16-17 trad. arr. Stairheid Gossip;
Track 2 unknown / Copyright Control;
Track 3 Colum Sands;
Track 4 words Robert Burns, music Derek Hoy;
Track 5 Walter Robinson;
Track 7 Sheena Wellington;
Track 8 trad. arr. Stairheid Gossip, first verse Stairheid Gossip;
Track 9 trad. arr. Alan Lomax, Gillian Welch, T-Bone Burnett;
Track 11a Mtambo;
Track 11b Christine Kydd;
Track 13 trad. arr. Hedy West;
Track 14 Elaine Wallace;
Track 15 James Hogg, additional word Dick Gaughan;