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(January 2007 re-release of 2003 boxed set) Total 309 tracks (14hrs 40mins)

Robert Burns gained more fame after his death than he ever did during his lifetime. His songs and poems have become international favourites.

This the the Complete Robert Burns Collection from Linn Records - 12 CD volumes in an attractive presentation box set. This marvellous collection has been attractively re-packaged for 2007 in a lightweight case, with updated artwork and a fresh new feel.

Featuring all the major contemporary Burns singers, with instrumental accompaniment. Singers include Jim Reid, Billy Ross, Rod Paterson, Janet Russell, Ian F Benzie and Tony Cuffe, and other artists include members of Battlefield Band, The Cast, The Corries, Deaf Shepherd, MacAlias, Malinky, Old Blind Dogs and many more.

Originally released early in 2003, the groundbreaking series took seven years to complete and involved over 80 singers and instrumentalists. It remains the definitive collection of Robert Burns’s song and the timeless poetry of Burns is brought vividly to life in this unique archive.

Encompassing love songs and bawdy songs (note the explicit lyrics warning on volume 11), patriotic and political anthems as well as songs about Scottish places and people, this collection of songs touches on all aspects of human nature and is a true representation of a vigorous folk tradition past and present.

Dr Fred Freeman, the series producer for The Complete Songs of Robert Burns, is an Honorary Fellow of the Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include the vernacular revival, ethnic minority writers in Scotland and, of course, song - specifically as a form in the 18th-century, with reference to Allan Ramsay, Robert Tannahill, James Hogg, Sir Walter Scott, contemporary Scottish songwriters, and Burns.

This sound grounding in the music and writing of the time has made him the ideal producer for the project, using his academic research and knowledge of contemporary performance practice to create the ideal balance between the necessary scholarly approach and the equally important feel of authenticity in performance that the series boasts.

He insisted on a recording process using very few takes, in order to preserve the feeling of live music in the recording. He also provided much of the recitation and musical arrangement.

"I have intended the series to be a tribute both to Burns the song-writer and to the contemporary Scottish folk movement: in many respects, the most dynamic folk movement in Europe." (Dr Fred Freeman)

"I believe that history will speak of the Linn Recordings in the same breath as the Kilmarnock Edition." (Living Tradition)

"Linn Records' efforts to record all of the National Bard's songs is breathtaking in its ambition and culturally laudable" (Inverness Courier)

"A remarkable and monumental achievement, comparable - in traditional music terms - to the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling or the King James VI translation of the Bible. A copy of this should be in every school and library in the land." (Sunday Herald)

"Hauntingly authentic performances." (BBC Music Magazine)

"Poured forth in melody as clear and true as a Highland stream." (Daily Mail)

Complete track listing: When Rosy May Comes In Wi' Flowers * O That I Had Ne'er Been Married * Wee Willie Gray * O Wha'll Mow Me Now * Brose And Butter * The Wintry West Extends His Blast * Sweet Afton * Duncan Gray * The Winter It Is Past * Gudeen To You Kimmer * Kellyburn Braes * The Slave's Lament * O A' The Airts The Wind Can Blaw * What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi An Old Man * Ay Waukin O * O Steer Her Up An Haud Her Gaun * The Cooper O Cuddy * O Rattlin Roarin Willie * To The Weaver's Gin You Go * Lady Mary Ann * Montgomerie's Peggy * The Lea-Rigg * Yestreen I Had A Pint O Wine * The Soldier's Return * The Reel O' Stumpie * I Hae A Wife O' My Ain * My Nanie O * Ye Jacobites By Name * Rantin' Rovin' Robin * O Let Me In This Ae Night * The Auld Man's Mares Dead * How Cruel Are The Parents * Leezie Lindsay * My Wife's A Wanton Wee Thing * To Daunton Me * Hey Ca Thro * The Silver Tassie * Kissin' My Katie * Scots Wha Hae * O Were I On Parnassus Hill * O An Ye Were Dead Gudeman * Willie Wastle * Beware O Bonie Ann * Willie Brewed A Peck O' Maut * A Rosebud By My Early Walk * Whistle O'er The Lave O't * Jumpin' John * The Dusty Miller * My Collier Laddie * The Weary Pund O' Tow * Now Westlin Winds And Slaught'ring Guns * Where Cart Rins Rowin * Ca The Yowes * An O For Ane And Twenty Tam * Auld Lang Syne * Craigieburn-wood * Ye Banks And Braes O' Bonie Doon * Cauld Blows The Wind Frae East To West * She's Fair And Fause * O Leave Novels * Lang Hae We Parted Been * Lassie Wi The Lintwhite Locks * Loud Blaw The Frosty Breezes * It Was A' For Our Rightfu' King * Where Are You Gaun My Bonie Lass * Comin' Thro' The Rye * The Birks Of Aberfeldy * O Tibbie I Hae Seen The Day * Logan Braes * Landlady Count The Lawin * Tam Glen * I Am My Mammie's Ae Bairn * Oh Where Hae Ye Been Lord Ronald My Son? * The Thames Flows Proudly To The Sea * Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation * Come Boat Me O'er * On A Bank Of Flowers * O Lay Thy Loof * Robin Shure In Hairst * My Harry * O My Luve's Like A Red Red Rose * Louis What Reck I By Thee * Hey How My Johnie Lad * O When She Come Ben She Bobbed * The Ploughman * Thou Gloomy December * The Shepherd's Wife * O Whar Gat Ye That Hauver-Meal Bannock? * Sir John Cope * Dost Ask Me Why I Send Thee Here * Tibbie Fowler O' The Glen * The Small Birds Rejoice * I Hae Been At Crookie-Den * O May Thy Morn * As I Went Out Ae May Morning * I Maun Hae A Wife * Awa' Wi Your Witchcraft * One Night As I Did Wander * O Luve Will Venture In * A Man's A Man For A' That * There Was A Lass They Ca'd Her Meg * Thou Has Left Me Ever Jamie * The Lovely Lass Of Inverness * Scroggam * Hughie Graham * John Barleycorn * There's Three Gude Fellows * Braw Braw Lads On Yarrow Braes * The Gloomy Night Is Gath'ring Fast * Contented Wi' Little And Cantie Wi' Mair * The Lass That Made The Bed To Me * Frae The Friends And Land I Love * Killiecrankie * O Once I Lov'd A Bonnie Lass * There'll Never Be Peace 'Till Jamie Comes Hame * Glencoe * Caledonia * Masonic Song * There Grows A Bonie Brier-bush * O I Am Come To The Low Countrie * Green Sleeves * O Mirk Mirk Is This Midnight Hour * Turn Again Thou Fair Eliza * Awa Whigs Awa! * Bonie Wee Thing * Twa Bonie Lads * When Guildford Good Our Pilot Stood * O Meikle Thinks My Luve * Helen O'Kirkconnel * The Cruel Fate * Auld Rob Morris * When First I Came To Stewart Kyle * Wha Is That At My Bower Door? * Craigieburn Wood * Jamie Come Try Me * And I'll Kiss Thee Yet * As I Cam Down By Yon Castle Wa' * Hee Balou My Sweet Wee Donald * From Thee Eliza I Must Go * Peg Nicholson * Last May A Braw Wooer * My Heart Is Sair * The Captain's Lady * The Wren's Nest * Nae Gentle Dames * Raving Winds * The Taylor * The Rowin't In Her Apron * My Girl She's Airy * As I Was Wand'ring * Geordie * Sensibility How Charming * Charlie He's My Darling * The Heather Was Blooming * Then Guidwife Count The Lawin * I Dream's I Lay * There's A Youth In This City * Sae Flaxen Were Her Ringlets * Up And Waur Them A' Jamie * Streams That Glide * Young Peggy Blooms * Long Long The Night * Ken Ye Ought O' Captain Grose? * Wha Will Buy My Troggin * Galloway Tam * Behold My Love * Weary Fa' You Duncan Gray * Wandering Willie * Ithers Seek * O Cam Ye Here The Fight To Shun? * Extempore * Mary Queen Of Scots Lament * The Groves Of Sweet Myrtle * O Poortith Cauld * O Dear Minny * Wae Is My Heart * Fairest Maid * Green Grow The Rashes O * Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E'e * The Auld Man's Winter Thought * I Do Confess * The Sun Is Sunk * Blythe Hae I Been * Ae Fond Kiss * What Merriment Has Taen The Whigs * Nanie's Awa * I Coft A Stane O'Haslock Woo * O Were My Lovey On Lilac Fair * The Noble Maxwells * O, Open The Door * There Was Five Carlins * While Larks With Little Wing and Lovely Was She * O Why The Deuce * O' Ken Ye Wat Meg O' The Mill Has Gotten * Corn Rigs Are Bonnie * Your Friendship * As I Cam In By Our Gate End * Why Tell Thy Lover * o, leez me on my spinning wheel * Where Braving Angry Winters Storms * My Hearts In The Highlands * O, Kenmures On And Awa * Will Ye Go To The Indies * O Thou Pale Orb * Thine Am I * The Smiling Spring * My Heart Is Wae * Ye Banks And Braes And Streams * Adown Winding Nith * How Can My Poor Heart Be Glad * Twas Past One O'clock * Yon Wild Mossy Mountains * Mary Morison * On Cessock Banks * Is This Thy Plighted, Fond Regard * MacPherson's Farewell * Here's A Health to Them * As Down The Burn * Wham Will We Send * Ye Flowery Banks * Come Let Me Take Thee * O Saw Ye My Dear * I Sing Of A Whistle * Man Was Made To Mourn * Husband, Husband * Anna And The Catrine Woods * Sleep'st Thou Or Wak'st Thou * Where Are The Joys? * Li Is Na Jean * O Stay * Ca' The Yowes * I Gaed A Waefu' Gate * Fy Let Us A' To Kirkcudbright * Thou Ling'ring Star * O For My Ain King * O Sad And Heavy * Clarinda * Twas In The Seventeen Hunder Years * My Love She's But A Lassie Yet * Had I A Cave * True-hearted He Was * My Father Was A Farmer * Thickest Night * Fate Gave The Word * Here's To Thy Health * O Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast * As I Came O'er The Cairney Mount * As I Stood By * O Philly * Twas Even * Stay My Charmer * O Wert Thou Love * In Simmer * Heard Ye O' The Tree O' France * Here Is The Glen * The Taylor Fell Thro' The Bed * Fair The Face Of Orient Day * Aften Hae I Play'd * In Tarbolton * There Was A Lass * By Allen Stream * Up And Warn A' Willie * Oh I Forbid You * In Edinburgh Town * As I Cam Down By Annan Side * Had I The Wyte * When Mary Cam Over The Border * Saw Ye My Maggie * As Honest Jacob * Grim Grizzel * The Cares O' Love * While Prose Work And Rhymes * I'll Tell You A Tale * O Wha'll Mow Me Now * Among Our Young Lasses * Green Grow The Rashes O * There Was Twa Wives * Recitation * I Am A Son Of Mars * Recitation * I Once Was A Maid * Recitation * Sir Wisdom's a Fool * Recitation * A Highland Lad My Love Was Born * Recitation * Let Me Ryke Up To Dight That Tear * Recitation * My Bonnie Lass * Recitation * I Am A Bard * Recitation * See The Smoking Bowl * It's Up Wi The Souters O Selkik * You're Welcome To Despots, Dumourier * Again Rejoicing Nature Sees * Adieu! * Orthodox, Orthodox * O Wat Ye Wha That Lo'es Me * O Bonie Was Yon Rosy Brier * Farewell Thou Stream * The Auld Man's Mare's Dead * Now Spring Has Clad * There Was A Bonie Lass * Go On Sweet Bird * Dire Was The Hate * O Sing A New Song * O How Shall I Unskillfu' Try * Ah Chloris Since If May Not Be.

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