The eleventh volume and a double disc set from the unique Complete Songs of Robert Burns compendium. Includes 'By Allan stream', 'O for my ain king' and 'My love she's but a lassie yet'.

The twelve volumes which comprise The Complete Songs of Robert Burns remain the benchmark of all Burns songs recordings. Released to coincide with the worldwide Burns Night celebrations, this is the first volume in the ground breaking series which took seven years to complete and involved over 80 singers and instrumentalists.

This unsurpassed collection was collated by Burns specialist Dr Fred Freeman, who worked in the fluid tradition of folk music with the players and singers to bring the timeless poetry of the Bard vividly to life. The Telegraph described the series as "a marvellous tribute to the man who gave the anonymous feelings of Scots folk song a sharp, poignant individuality, and by doing so made them the whole world's possession."

Encompassing ballads and bawdy songs, patriotic and political anthems plus songs which bring Scottish places and people to life, this collection of songs touches on all aspects of human nature and is a true representation of a vigorous folk tradition past and present. The performance practice essential to the authentic performance of Burns is evident: singers, like Tony Cuffe and Billy Ross, and fiddlers, like John Martin and Johnnie Cunningham, perform with light, clear articulation, whilst singers, like Rod Paterson, display admirable 'restraint' and almost 'non-existent' vibrato. Each musician here shares Burns' commitment to communication and expression creating both a lasting tribute to the man and to the contemporary folk movement in Scotland.

Featured musicians include members of Malinky, The Tannahill Weavers, Black-Eyed Biddy, Jock Tamson's Bairns, Calasaig and many more.

Contents:

CD 1
1. Ca the yowes
2. I gaed a waefu gate
3. Fy, let us aa to Kirkcudbright
4. Thou ling’ring star
5. O for my ain king
6. O sad and heavy / Wilt thou be my dearie?
7. Clarinda
8. ’Twas in the seventeen hunder years
9. My love, she’s but a lassie yet
10. Had I a cave / Farewell, thou fair day
11. True-hearted was he
12. My father was a farmer
13. Thickest night / How lang and dreary is the night
14. Fate give the word
15. Here’s to thy health / O, wat ye wha’s in yon town
16. O, wert thou in the cauld blast
17. As I came ower the Cairney mount / Dainty Davie
18. As I stood by
19. O Philly
20. ’Twas even
21. Stay, my charmer
22. O wert thou, love
23. In simmer

CD 2
1. Heard ye o the tree o France
2. Here is the Glen
3. The Taylor fell thro the bed
4. Fair the face
5. Aften hae I play’d at the cards and the dice
6. In Tarbolton
7. There was a lass
8. By Allan stream
9. Up and warn aa, Willie
10. O, I forbid you
11. In Edinburgh town / Cock up your beaver
12. As I cam down by Annan side
13. Had I the Wyte / When maukin bucks
14. When Mary cam over the border
15. Saw ye my Maggie?
16. As honest Jacob on a night
17. Grim Grizzel; The night
18. The cares o love / Come rede me dam
19. While prose-work and rhymes / When Princes and Prelates
20. I’ll tell you a tale
21. O wha’ll m-w me now
22. Amang our young lassies
23. Green grow the rashes, O (Bawdy Version) / Altho my back be at the wa
24. There was twa wives