Greentrax Recordings

Greentrax Recordings

Specialising in traditional and contemporary Gaelic and Celtic music from Scotland and beyond.

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Various Artists - Songs Of East Lothian And The Forth (Celtic Collections vol 7) (CD)

CDGMP8007 (released April 2004)

category: Celtic Collections

13 tracks: Here's A Health Tae The Sauters * Farewell Tae The Haven * Johnnie Cope * Jimmy Waddell * Heave Ya Ho * Fisherrow * Wha'll Dreg a Buckie * Caller Oysters * Muir and The Master Builder * The Collier's Way * Rolling Hills of The Borders * The Yew Tree * The Forth Bridge Song.

The songs of East Lothian and the Forth, with particular emphasis on the sadly defunct fishing industry of the Forth Estuary.

Performers include Ceolbeg, The McCalmans, Malinky, Drinker's Drouth, Heritage, Robin Laing and Dick Gaughan.

Songs of the Prestonpans salters, the shell-fish gatherers, colliers and fishers * songs about soldiers and saviours, songs of the trees and the landscape.