Roberts, Alasdair & Karine Polwart

Drag City

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7"
$6.00
DC 497
Street Date:
November 8th, 2011
Ship Date:
October 31st, 2011

This split 7" record is being released in tandem with the compilation album Whaur the Pig Gaed on the Spree: Scottish Recordings by Alan Lomax 1951–’57. The A-side of the single is ALASDAIR ROBERTS’ own arrangement and performance (with renowned Scottish singer KARINE POLWART) of “Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship,” a traditional ballad included on Whaur the Pig… from the mouth of an octogenarian farmer named Willie Mathieson. The flipside features another young and talented traditionally-minded Scots singer, DREW WRIGHT, who turns in an interpretation of the classic Scots border ballad, “The Dowie Dens O Yarrow.” (STREET DATE - 11/08/2011)