[2017-03-17] Matt McGinn "On The Road From Aldermaston: Complete Transatlantic Recordings" 2CD set (Cherry Tree UK)

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Feb 25, 2017 7:03 pm

Description
Although he died forty years ago, the reputation of Matt McGinn endures and even expands. Having left behind a dazzling legacy of more than five hundred songs, the life's work of the man dubbed "Scotland's Woody Guthrie" by Tom Paxton was commemorated in 2004 with a concert that was staged in New York on Broadway, where Pete Seeger suggested that "... if there's a human race here in hundreds of years, people alive then will still be singing his songs". One of the key figures of the folk revival in Scotland, McGinn was a prodigiously talented singer/songwriter who moved effortlessly between ribald humour, topical novelties, good-natured parodies, children's verse, tender love songs and heavily politicised protest material. This 2CD anthology represents his four-year spell in the late Sixties with leading folk label Transatlantic, for whom he recorded a quartet of albums that contain many of his best-loved and most enduring songs - including 'Coorie Doon' and 'Three Nights And A Sunday', both of which would be included alongside the likes of Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly and Bob Dylan in the Smithsonian's Top One Hundred Folk Songs of the 20th Century.

Tracklist
[CD1]
1. The Red Yo Yo
2. Willie MacNamara
3. Old Johnny Bull
4. Big Sammy
5. The Footba' Referee
6. Ban The Beatles
7. The Heilan' Man
8. The First Man On The Moon
9. Manura Manyar
10. The Gallowgate Calypso
11. Lots Of Little Soldiers
12. Unner Alow The Ground
13. Rob Roy McGregor
14. Mambo
15. The Rolling Hills Of The Border
16. Moaning
17. We’ll All Be Angels
18. On The Road From Aldermaston
19. I.O.U.
20. The Ballad Of John McLean
21. The King And The Key
22. Three Nights And A Sunday
23. Rosy Anna
24. I'm Looking For A Job
25. Big Willie's Blues
26. The Boys From Lisbon

1-12: The album Matt McGinn, Transatlantic XTRA1045, released 1966
13-25: The album Matt McGinn Again, Transatlantic XTRA 1057, released 1967
26: Single, Transatlantic TRA SP 15, released 1967

[CD2]
1. Honesty Is Out Of The Fashion
2. The Pekinese Dog
3. The Sash/Kevin Barry
4. The Dundee Ghost
5. The Ballad Of The Q4
6. Biddie McGrath
7. The Leaving Of Liverpool
8. Rosin The Bow
9. Two Foot Tall
10. The Sequel To The Dundee Weaver
11. No Nay Never
12. The Big Orange Whale
13. The Pill
14. Coorie Doon
15. I Have Seen The Highlands
16. I'll Be Coming Home To Glasgow
17. The Cleansing Man
18. The Witches Song
19. Polly Had A Poodle
20. Little Ticks Of Time
21. Skinny Ma Linky Long Legs
22. The Man In The Moon
23. Bingo Bella
24. Jolly Red Nose
25. Mornin' Eleanora
26. Tra La La Tweet Tweet
27. Oor Wee Wean
28. The Dundee Cat
29. Eternity Will Soon Be Over
30. Loch Lomond

1-14: The album Honesty Is Out Of The Fashion, Transatlantic XTRA 1071, released 1968
15-16: Single, Transatlantic TRA SP 18, released 1968
17-30: The album Little Ticks Of Time, Transatlantic XTRA 1078, released 1969

Amazon USA
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MTC88RB/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01MTC88RB/?tag=imwan-21

[2017-03-17] Matt McGinn "On The Road From Aldermaston: Complete Transatlantic Recordings" 2CD set (Cherry Tree UK)

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