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Bothy ballad, the Glossary

Bothy ballads are songs sung by farm labourers in the northeast region of Scotland.^[1]

Alan Lomax

Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century.

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Belle Stewart

Belle Stewart, born Isobella McGregor, (18 July 1906 – 4 September 1997) was a Scottish Traveller traditional singer.

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Bill Leader

Bill Leader (born 26 December 1929) is an English recording engineer and record producer.

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Bothy

A bothy is a basic shelter, usually left unlocked and available for anyone to use free of charge.

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Bothy band

A bothy band is a musical group which comes from the farming culture of nineteenth century Scotland. Bothy ballad and bothy band are Scottish folk music.

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Child Ballads

The Child Ballads are 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, anthologized by Francis James Child during the second half of the 19th century.

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A cornkister is a Doric song, generally a comic song, written during the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries, in the tradition of the bothy ballads. Bothy ballad and cornkister are Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, culture in Aberdeen, Moray, Scots language, Scottish folk music and Scottish songs.

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Grampian Television

Grampian Television was the original name of the Channel 3 service for the north of Scotland founded in 1961 and now named STV.

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Hamish Henderson

(James) Hamish Scott Henderson (11 November 1919 – 9 March 2002) was a Scottish poet, songwriter, communist, intellectual and soldier.

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Jimmy MacBeath

Jimmy MacBeath (1894–1972) was a Scottish Traveller and Traditional singer of the Bothy Ballads from the north east of Scotland.

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John Strachan (singer)

John Strachan (1875–1958) was a Scottish farmer and Traditional singer of Bothy Ballads including several old and influential versions of the famous Child Ballads.

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Mess John

Mess John is the old epithet in Scottish ballad poetry for a priest, derived from the celebration of the mass, so that "Mess John" signified in irreverent phrase, John who celebrated the mass.

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Peninsular War

The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Simon & Garfunkel

Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo consisting of the singer-songwriter Paul Simon and the singer Art Garfunkel.

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Steeleye Span

Steeleye Span are a British folk rock band formed in 1969 in England by Fairport Convention bass player Ashley Hutchings and established London folk club duo Tim Hart and Maddy Prior.

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The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie

The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie (Roud # 545) is a Scottish folk song about a thwarted romance between a soldier and a woman.

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The Clutha

The Clutha were a traditional Scottish band hailing from Glasgow, that released a small number of albums in the 1970s.

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The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection

The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection from northeast Scotland, was the work of the schoolmaster and musician, Gavin Greig (1856–1914), and the minister James Bruce Duncan (1848-1917). Bothy ballad and the Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection are Scottish folk music.

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The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter

"The Knight and the Shepherd’s Daughter" is an English ballad, collected by Francis James Child as Child Ballad 110 and listed as number 67 in the Roud Folk Song Index.

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The Voice of the People

The Voice of the People is an anthology of folk songs produced by Topic Records containing recordings of traditional singers and musicians from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Bothy ballad and the Voice of the People are Scottish folk music.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bothy_ballad

Also known as Bothy ballads.