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Whaur the Pig Gaed on the Spree
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Whaur the Pig Gaed on the Spree Twos & Fews / Drag City DC488 (LP, UK, 2011) |
Recorded by Alan Lomax;
Compiled by Alasdair Roberts in commemoration of the 60th
anniversary of the first of Alan Lomax's Scottish recordings;
Annotated by Alasdair Roberts and Nathan Salsburg
Musicians
Davie Stewart: vocals [1],
accordion [1, 12];
Jessie Murray: vocals [2];
Hector MacAndrew: fiddle [3];
Alice Mearns: piano [3];
John Steven: vocals [4];
Mary Cosgrove: vocals [5];
Jimmy McBeath: vocals [6, 11];
Jimmy Shand: melodeon [7];
Sidney Chalmers: fiddle [7];
Jeannie Robertson: vocals [8, 14];
John Strachan: vocals [9, 15];
Willie Mathieson: vocals [10];
Aberdeen schoolchildren: vocals [13];
Hamish Henderson: vocals [16];
John Burgess: bagpipes [17]
Tracks
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Tracks 1, 12 recorded at Alan Lomax's flat, London, December 1957;
Track 2 recorded in Portnockie, near Buckie, Banffshire, 17 July 1951;
Track 3 recorded at the home of John and Alice Mearns, Aberdeen, 15 July 1951;
Tracks 4, 10 recorded at the Commercial Hotel in Turriff, Aberdeenshire, 17 July 1951;
Track 5 recorded in Newtongrange, Midlothian, 11 December 1953;
Tracks 6, 11 recorded at Alan Lomax's flat, London, 14 November 1953;
Track 7 recorded possibly at Jimmy Shand's home or at the Station Hotel, Dundee, 26 July 1951;
Tracks 8, 14 recorded at Alan Lomax's flat, London, 1 November 1953;
Tracks 9, 15 recorded in Crichie, Aberdeenshire, 16 July 1951;
Track 13 recorded at 5 Cedar Place, Aberdeen, 15 July 1951;
Track 16 recorded at the Hotel Meurice, London, 6 March 1951;
Track 17 possibly recorded at 21 Salisbury Place, Edinburgh, 14 June 1951, or the People's Festival Ceilidh, 30 August 1951;
Tracks 3-5, 7-8, 10, 16 are previously unreleased