Singing in the Streets: Scottish Children’s Songs

06/22/2004 08:46PM

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Rounder Records releases today Singing in the Streets: Scottish Children’s Songs (Rounder 1795-2), which is part of the Alan Lomax Collection. It is an album of rich, timeless musical gleanings of evocative or surreal ephemeral children’s lore, gathered in a school playground in the crowded city of Edinburgh, a quiet little classroom on a sparsely populated Hebridean island, a suburban street in Aberdeen, and in quiet conversations with James T. Ritchie, one of Scotland's foremost childlore experts, and with two giants of Scottish folk music: Ewan MacColl and Hamish Henderson.

Recorded from 1951 to 1957 by Alan Lomax, Hamish Henderson, and the MacLeans of Raasay. Introduction and notes by Ewan McVicar. Remastered to 24-bit digital from the original field recordings.

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