Title: Portraits - John Strachan Songs from Aberdeenshire The Alan Lomax Collection - USA John Strachan, an Aberdeenshire farmer born in 1875, was one of Scotland's greatest folk singers, yet this is the first album devoted entirely to him. Here he is in a collection of songs and stories both romantic and racy, all delivered in his inimitable Doric Fashion.
Titles
1. The hairst o rettie 2. The miller of straloch 3. Glenilogie 4. The beggar man 5. Rhynie 6. The merchant's son 7. The ministers daughters they were there 8. Fin the Bed Began tae heat 9. Binnorie, o binnorie 10. The knight and the shepherds daughter 11. The stootest man in the forty twa 12. Bonny udny 13. The bonny lass of fyvie 14. Clyde's water 15. The laird o drum 16. Robin hood 17. Macphersons rant 18. Johnnie o braidislie 19. The guise o tough 20. The bogheid crew 21. Harrowing time 22. Where the Gadie rins 23. Lang Johnnie more 24. I had some better verses than that
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