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Merry Matanzie – William Soutar

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1 Foreword: Alex McCrindle 1:06

2 The Tattie-Bogle 0:21

3 The Twa Men 0:29

4 A Bairn’s Sang 0:36

5 The Gowdan Ba’ 0:21

6 The Daft Tree 0:16

7 Winter’s Awa 0:21

8 Craigie Knowes 0:17

9 The Lanely Mune 0:17

10 By the Way 0:26

11 Auld Sang 0:31

12 Wha Wud be a Tattie- Bogle? 0:24

13 Yon Day 0:30

14 The Merry Moment 0:26

15 Doun-Come 0:29

16 Blaeberry Mou’ 0:22

17 A Laddie’s Sang 0:21

18 The Buckie Braes 0:45

19 The Wind 0:32

20 The Larky Lad 0:42

21 Pity 0:56

22 Ae Nicht at Amulree 0:40

23 Interlude 0:21

24 Biography 0:36

25 The Auld Man o’ Muckart 0:34

26 The Three Worthies 0:32

27 Compensation 0:29

28 Epitaph 0:45

29 Backlands 0:22

30 Whan Gowdan are the Carse-Lands 0:27

31 The Star 0:29

32 Yon Toun 0:39

33 Thrang and Thrivin 0:29

34 The Blindy Beggar 0:29

35 Crusts o’ Kindness 0:31

36 Patriotism 0:30

37 The Stany Face 0:39

38 Ballad 0:33

39 Ballad – set to music by Irene McLennan

and sung by Elizabeth McLean 1:35

40 COMMENT

W R Aitken reviews the life of William Soutar and discusses the purpose of his Bairnrhymes and Whigmaleeries 12:59

41 THE REMEMBERING OF A FRIENDSHIP

Alex Galloway was fortunate to meet William Soutar in 1936 and became a welcome and regular visitor at his bedside from 1938 until Soutar’s death in 1943. W R Aitken here reads Alex Galloway’s revealing memoir of that friendship 9:09

Total running time of this CD 43:16

Additional piano, fiddle, viola: Hugh McGilp

Permission to reproduce William Soutar’s work has been kindly granted by ‘The Trustees of the National Library of Scotland’. The original cassette was produced with a subsidy from the Scottish Arts Council. Portrait of William Soutar (detail) by James A Finlayson, reproduced by permission of Perth Museum and Art Gallery.