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The great traditional ballads are storytelling at its dark, urgent best and the greatest exponent of this folk art was Ewan MacColl. Traditional narrative ballads are at the centre of the British Folk Tradition. They told stories which helped define the English and Scottish national characters; stories about murder and intrigue, love and discord on both the epic and domestic scale, but stories that told us about ourselves. Ewan MacColl was the folk revival's greatest proponent of the ballad; ballads were central to his conception of the folk revival and at the core of his recordings and performances. His commitment showed in his performances, where the story was everything. No one who ever witnessed him performing one of the great ballads live will ever forget it. BALLADS: Murder, Intrigue, Love, Discord is a great selection of performances originally released in 1956 and never before on CD. This beautiful double CD is lovingly remastered and packaged in a slipcase with a 64 page booklet with extensive notes and full texts of all the songs. Topic Records are proud to reissue these important recordings as part of the label's 70th anniversary celebrations. Tracks, Disc 1. Ballads of Murder and Intrigue. 1 THE CRUEL MOTHER / 2 JOHNNIE O' BREADISLEY / 3 LANG JOHNNIE MORE / 4 JOCK THE LEG / 5 HUGHIE THE GRAEME / 6 THE DOUGLAS TRAGEDY / 7 THE DOWIE DENS 0' YARROW / 8 CAPTAIN WARD AND THE RAINBOW / 9 CLYDE'S WATER / 10 THE CRAFTY FARMER / 11 LORD GREGORY / 12 GIL MORICE / 13 MY SON DAVID / 14 THE BATTLE OF HARLAW / 15 THE BONNIE HOOSE O' AIRLIE Disc 2. Ballads of Love and Discord. 1 THE RANTIN' LADDIE / 2 THE EARL OF ABOYNE / 3 THE COOPER O' FIFE / 4 CAPTAIN WEDDERBURN'S COURTSHIP / 5 THE JOLLY BEGGAR / 6 THE BEGGAR LADDIE / 7 OUR GOODMAN / 8 THE LAIRD O' DRUM / 9 THE BROOMFIELD HILL / 10 GET UP AND BAR THE DOOR / 11 HIND HORN / 12 THE TROOPER AND THE MAID / 13 AMANG THE BLUE FLOWERS AND THE YELLOW / 14 THE KEACH IN THE CREEL
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I think that for unaccompanied singing to be interesting, there has to be more interest in the melody and more drama in the words. Indeed, there may well be drama in the words but I did not find them distinct enough to appreciate it. I bought this CD for my husband's birthday at his request. He likes it; I find it a headache. There is one song that goes on and on and on with a short repetitive melody repeated in exactly the same way for more verses than I care to count. Tedious, grating, unexpressive. The only variation was a tiny slow down at the end, to let you know it was about to finish. Sigh of relief. Sorry Ewan.
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1 Mar 2012
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It would have been nice to know there is no music on this CD. It is just singing alone. I expected singing and music- very dissapointed. I sent this cd off to a friend that might actually enjoy unaccompanied singing!
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