The Complete Songs Of Robert Burns - Linn Records Boxed Set

250th Anniversary in 2009 of Robert Burns' birth

(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:

A Highland Lad My Love Was Born (Mairi MacInnes)
A Man's A Man For A' That (Ian F Benzie)
A Rose-Bud By My Early Walk (Gordeanna Mcculloch)
A' The Lads (Wendy Weatherby)
Adieu! (Jim Reid)
Adown Winding Nith (John Nichol)
Ae Fond Kiss (Original Version) (Mae Mckenna)
Aften Hae I Play'd (Kirsten Easdale)
Again Rejoicing Nature Sees (Gordon Kelly)
Ah Chloris Since It May Not Be (Tich Frier)
Altho' My Back (Jamie Mcmenemy)
Altho' My Back (Was At The Wa') (Wendy Weatherby)
Among Our Young Lasses (John Croall)
Among The Trees (Corrina Hewat)
An O For Ane And Twenty Tam (Wendy Weatherby)
And I'll Kiss Thee Yet (John Morran)
Anna (Jim Reid)
As Down The Burn (Billy Ross)
As Honest Jacob (Billy Ross)
As I Cam Down By Annan Side (Kirsten Easdale)
As I Cam Down By Yon Castle Wa' (Alistair Hulett)
As I Cam In By Our Gate-End (Jim Reid)
As I Came O'er The Cairney Mount (Kirsten Easdale)
As I Stood By (Tich Frier)
As I Was A Wand'ring (Karine Polwart)
As I Went Out Ae May Morning (Mick West)
As Late By A Sodger (George Duff)
Auld Lang Syne (Ronnie Browne)
Auld Rob Morris (James Malcolm)
Awa Wi' Your Witchcraft (James Malcolm)
Awa, Whigs, Awa! (James Malcolm)
Ay, Waukin, O (Tony Cuffe)
Bannocks O' Bear Meal (Gillian Macdonald)
Behold, My Love (Mairi Campbell)
Beware O' Bonie Ann (Billy Ross)
Blythe Hae I Been (Bobby Eaglesham)
Blythe, Blythe (Wendy Weatherby)
Bonie Wee Thing (John Morran)
Braw, Braw Lads On Yarrow Braes (Elspeth Cowie)
Brose And Butter (Billy Ross)
By Allan Stream (Rod Paterson)
Ca' The Yowes (Ian Bruce)
Ca' The Yowes (Kirsten Easdale)
Caledonia (James Malcolm)
Carl An The King Come (Niall Kenny)
Cauld Blaws The Wind Frae East To West (Lesley Hale)
Cauld Is The E'enin Blast (Ian Anderson)
Charlie, He's My Darling (Aimee Leonard)
Clarinda (Steve Byrne)
Cock Up Your Beaver (When First My Brave Johnie) (Wendy Weatherby)
Come Boat Me O'er (Mick West)
Come Let Me Take Thee (Janet Russell & Gillian Macdonald)
Come Rede Me Dame (Christine Kydd)
Comin' Thro' The Rye (Gordeanna Mcculloch)
Contented Wi' Little, And Cantie Wi' Mair (John Morran)
Corn Rigs Are Bonie (Ross Kennedy)
Craigie-Burn Wood (Gillian Macdonald)
Craigie-Burn Wood (Ian Bruce)
Dainty Davie (Kirsten Easdale)
Dire Was The Hate (Wendy Weatherby)
Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat? (John Nichol)
Dost Ask Me, Why I Send Thee Here (Corrina Hewat)
Duncan Gray (Janet Russell & Christine Kydd)
Extempore (Ross Kennedy)
Fair The Face Of Orient Day (Jim Reid)
Fairest Maid (George Duff)
Farewell Thou Fair Day (Kirsten Easdale)
Farewell Thou Stream (Steve Byrne)
Fate Gave The Word (Lesley Hale)
Frae The Friends And Land I Love (Corrina Hewat)
From Thee, Eliza, I Must Go (John Morran)
Fy Let Us A' To Kirkeubright (John Nichol)
Galloway Tom (Ian Bruce)
Gat Ye Me, O, Gat Ye Me (Elspeth Cowie)
Geordie (Alistair Hulett)
Glencoe (John Morran)
Go On Sweet Bird (Christine Kydd)
Green Grow The Rashes, O (John Morran)
Green Grow The Rashes, O (Bawdy Version) (Wendy Weatherby)
Green Sleeves (Ian F Benzie)
Grim Grizzel (Tich Frier)
Glide Ale (Jamie Mcmenemy)
Gudeen To You Kimmer (Christine Kydd & Rod Paterson)
Had I A Cave (Kirsten Easdale)
Had I The Wyte (Rod Paterson)
Heard Ye O' The Tree O' France (Rod Paterson)
Hee Balou, My Sweet Wee Donald (Gillian Macdonald)
Helen O' Kirkconnel (John Morran)
Here Is The Glen (Steve Byrne)
Here's A Health To Ane (Gordon Kelly)
Here's A Health To Them (Gordon Kelly)
Here's To Thy Health (John Croall)
Hey Ca' Thro (Janet Russell & Christine Kydd)
Hey, How My Johnie Lad (Mick West)
Highland Laddie (Gillian Macdonald)
How Can My Poor Heart Be Glad (Gillian Frame)
How Cruel Are The Parents (Ian F Benzie)
How Lang And Dreary Is The Night (Billy Ross)
Hughie Graham (Ian F Benzie)
Husband, Husband (Lesley Hale & Tich Frier)
I Am A Bard (Ian Bruce)
I Am A Son Of Mars (Tich Frier)
I Am My Mammie's Ae Bairn (Wendy Weatherby)
I Coft A Stane O' Haslock Woo (Mairi Campbell)
I Do Confess (John Morran)
I Gaed A Waefru' Gate (Ross Kennedy)
I Hae A Wife O' My Ain (Billy Ross)
I Hae Been At Crookie-Den (Lesley Hale)
I Maun Hae A Wife (Davy Steele)
I Murder Hate (Niall Kenny)
I Once Was A Maid (Mairi Mac Innes)
I Sing Of A Whistle (Kirsten Easdale)
I Dream'd I Lay (Bobby Eaglesham)
I'll Ay Ca' In By Yon Town (Bobby Eaglesham)
I'll Tell You A Tale (Tich Frier)
In Comin' By The Brig O' Dye (John Morran)
In Edinburgh Town (Wendy Weatherby)
In Mauchline (Jamie Mcmenemy)
In Simmer (Kirsten Easdale)
In Tarbolton (Ross Kennedy)
Is This Thy Plighted, Fond Regard (John Croall)
It Is Na Jean (Lionel Mcclelland)
It Was A' For Our Rightfru' King (Mick West)
Ither Seek (George Duff)
It's Up Wi' The Souters O' Selkirk (Ross Kennedy)
Jamie, Come Try Me (Elspeth Cowie)
Jockie's Ta'en The Parting Kiss (Janet Russell & Gillian Macdonald)
John Anderson My Jo (Elspeth Cowie)
John Barleycorn: A Ballad (Davy Steele)
John Come Kiss Me (Gillian Macdonald)
Johnie Blunt (Jamie Mcmenemy)
Jumpin' John (Tony Cuffe)
Kellyburn Braes (Alan Reid)
Ken Ye Ought O' Captain Grose? (Mairi Campbell)
Killiecrankie (Jamie Mcmenemy)
Kissin' My Katie (Tony Cuffe)
Lady Mary Ann (Billy Ross)
Landlady Count The Lawin (Ronnie Browne)
Long Hae We Parted Been (Brian Miller)
Lassie Wi' The Lintwhite Locks (Ian Bruce)
Lassie, Lend Me Your Braw Hemp Heckle (Ian F Benzie)
Last May A Braw Wooer (Gillian Macdonald)
Leezie Lindsay (Arthur Johnstone)
Let Me Ryke Up To Dight That Tear (Rod Patterson)
Let Not Woman E'er Complain (Elspeth Cowie)
Logan Braes (Wendy Weatherby)
Long, Long The Night (John Morran)
Loud Blow The Frosty Breezes (Wendy Weatherby)
Louis What Reck I By Thee (Jamie Mcmenemy)
Lovely Was She (Ross Kennedy)
Macpherson's Farewell (Billy Ross)
Man Was Made To Mourn (Ross Kennedy)
Mark Yonder Pomp (Lionel Mcclelland)
Mary Morison (Billy Ross)
Mary Queen Of Scots Lament (Mae Mckenna)
Masonic Song (Davy Steele)
Montgomerie's Peggy (Ian F Benzie)
Musing (Mairi Campbell)
My Bonie Lass (Ian Bruce)
My Collier Laddie (Alan Reid)
My Eppie Adair (Ross Kennedy)
My Father Was A Farmer (Steve Byrne)
My Girl She's Airy (Bobby Eaglesham)
My Harry (Wendy Weatherby)
My Heart Is Sair (Mae Mckenna)
My Heart Is Wae (Karine Polwart)
My Heart's In The Highlands (Karine Polwart)
My Lady's Gown (Alistair Hulett)
My Love She's But A Lassie Yet (Jim Reid)
My Nanie, O (Rod Paterson)
My Peggy's Face (Billy Ross)
My Sandie O (Mairi Campbell)
My Wife's A Wanton, Wee Thing (Rod Paterson)
Nae Gentle Dames (George Duff)
Nanie's Awa (Ross Kennedy)
No Churchman Am I (Alistair Hulett)
Now Spring Has Clad (Gordon Kelly)
Now Westlin Winds & Slaught'ring Guns (Ian Bruce)
O An' Ye Were Dead Gudeman (Gordeanna Mcculloch)
O Ay My Wife She Dang Me (John Nichol)
O Bonie Was Yon Rosy Brier (John Nichol)
O Can Ye Labour Lea (Corrina Hewat)
O Dear Minny (Mae Mckenna)
O For My Ain King (Ross Kennedy)
O Gie The Lass Her Fairin', Lad (Jamie Mcmenemy)
O How Can I Be Blithe (Kirsten Easdale)
O How Shall I Unskilfu' Try (Rod Patterson)
O I Forbid You, Maidens A' (Kirsten Easdale)
O Lay Thy Loof (Jamie Mcmenemy)
O Leave Novels (Wendy Weatherby)
O Lovely Polly Stewart (John Nichol)
O Mally's Meek (Ian Bruce)
O May, Thy Morn (Davy Steele)
O My Luve's Like A Red, Red Rose (Davy Steele)
O My Luve's Like A Red, Red Rose (Part Original Version) (Tich Frier)
O Once I Lov'd A Bonnie Lass (Davy Steele)
O Philly (Tich Frier & Lesley Hale)
O Poortith Cauld (Ross Kennedy)
O Sad And Heavy (John Nichol)
O Saw Ye My Dear (Tich Frier)
O Saw Ye My Dearie? (Jim Reid)
O Sing A New Song (Janet Russell)
O Stay (John Nichol)
O Thou Pale Orb (Mairi Campbell)
O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The Day (Brian Miller)
O Wat Ye Wha That Lo'es Me (Gordon Kelly)
O Wat Yc Wha 's In Yon Town (John Croall)
O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair (Ross Kennedy)
O Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast (Lionel Mcclelland)
O Wert Thou Love (Billy Ross)
O Wha'll Mow Me Now? (Janet Russell)
O Wha'll Mow Me Now? (Janet Russell)
O Where Hae Ye Been, Lord Ronald, My Son? (Ronnie Browne)
O Whistle And I'll Come To You (Wendy Weatherby)
O Why The Deuce (Niall Kenny)
O, Cam Ye Here The Fight To Shun? (Karine Polwart)
O, I Am Come To The Low Countrie (Eispeth Cowie)
O, Ken Ye What Meg O' The Mill Has Gotten (Parts One & Two) (Jim Reid)
O, Kenmure's On And Awa (Kirsten Easdale)
O, Leeze Me On My Spinnin-Wheel (Karine Polwart)
O, Let Me In This Ae Night (Tony Cuffe)
O, Luve Will Venture In (Jamie Mcmenemy)
O, Meikle Thinks My Luve (Mae Mckenna)
O, Mirk, Mirk Is This Midnight Hour (Mae Mckenna)
O, Open The Door (Niall Kenny)
O, Rattlin, Roarin Willie (Rod Paterson)
O, Saw Ye Bonie Lesley? (Ed Miller)
O, Steer Her Up, An Haud Her Gaun (Rod Paterson)
O, That I Had Ne'er Been Married (Rod Paterson)
O, Were I On Parnassus Hill (Alan Reid)
O, Whar Gat Ye That Hauver-Meal Bannock? (Wendy Weatherby)
O, When She Comes Ben, She Bobbed (Ian Bruce)
Of A' The Airts The Wind Can Blaw (Rod Paterson)
On A Bank Of Flowers (Lesley Hale)
On Cessnock Banks (John Nichol)
One Night As I Did Wander (Lesley Hale)
Orthodox, Orthodox (Kirsten Easdale)
Out Over The Forth (Lesley Hale)
Peg Nicholson (John Morran)
Rantin', Rovin' Robin (Billy Ross)
Raving Winds (Bobby Eaglesham)
Robin Shure In Hairst (Davy Steele)
Sae Flaxen Were Her Ringlets (Alistair Hulett)
Saint Stephen's House (Ross Kennedy)
Saw Ye My Maggie? (Findlay Napier & Gordon Kelly)
Scots Wha Hae (Arthur Johnstone)
Scroggam (Jamie Mcmenemy)
See The Smoking Bowl (Rod Patterson)
Sensibility How Charming (George Duff)
She Is A Winsome Wee Thing (Alistair Hulett)
She's Fair And Fause (Mick West)
Sir John Cope (Jamie Mcmenemy)
Sir Wisdom's A Fool (Tich Frier)
Sleep'st Thou Or Wak'st Thou (Lionel Mcclelland)
Stay My Charmer (Tich Frier)
Streams That Glide (Aimee Leonard)
Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation (Ian Bruce)
Sweet Afton (Tony Cuffe)
Sweet Tibbie Dunbar (Ian F Benzie)
Sweetest May (John Morran)
Tam Glen (Gordeanna Mcculloch)
The Auld Man's Mare's Dead (Christine Kydd)
The Auld Man's Mare's Dead (Christine Kydd)
The Auld Man's Winter Thought (Ian Bruce)
The Bairns Gat Out (Wendy Weatherby)
The Banks Of The Devon (Karine Polwart)
The Birks Of Aberfeldy (Ronnie Browne)
The Campbells Are Comin (Kirsten Easdale)
The Captain's Lady (John Morran)
The Cares O' Love (Christine Kydd)
The Catrines Woods (Jim Reid)
The Cooper O' Cuddy (Tony Cuffe)
The Day Returns (Gillian Macdonald)
The Deil's Awa Wi' Th' Exciseman (Janet Russell & Christine Kydd)
The Dusty Miller (Rod Paterson)
The Gloomy Night Is Gath'ring Fast (Corrina Hewat)
The Groves Of Sweet Myrtle (Bobby Eaglesham)
The Guidwife Count The Lawin (Alistair Hulett)
The Heather Was Blooming (Gillian Macdonald)
The Lass That Made The Bed To Me (Jamie Mcmenemy)
The Lazy Mist (Mairi Campbell)
The Lea-Rigg (Rod Paterson)
The Lovely Lass Of Inverness (James Malcolm)
The Night (Tich Frier)
The Noble Maxwells (Karine Polwart)
The Ploughman (Lesley Hale)
The Reel O' Stumpie (Gordeanna Mcculloch)
The Rowin't In Her Apron (Aimee Leonard)
The Shepherd's Wife (James Malcolm)
The Silver Tassie (Billy Ross)
The Slave's Lament (Christine Kydd)
The Small Birds Rejoice (James Malcolm)
The Smiling Spring (Jim Reid)
The Soldier's Return (Ian Bruce)
The Sun Is Sunk (George Duff)
The Taylor (Gillian Macdonald)
The Taylor Fell Thro' The Bed (John Nichol)
The Thames Flows Proudly To The Sea (Ian Bruce)
The Weary Pund O' Tow (Tony Cuffe)
The White Cockade (Wendy Weatherby)
The Winter It Is Past (Billy Ross)
The Wintry West Extends His Blast (Ian F Benzie)
The Wren's Nest (Gillian Macdonald)
There Grows A Borne Brier-Bush (James Malcolm)
There Was A Bonie Lass (John Nichol)
There Was A Jolly Gauger (Jim Reid)
There Was A Lass And She Was Fair (Janet Russell)
There Was A Lass, They Ca'd Her Meg (Corrina Hewat)
There Was Five Carlins (Kirsten Easdale)
There Was Twa Wives (Rod Paterson)
There'll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame (Jamie Mcmenemy)
There's A Youth In This City (Gillian Macdonald)
There's News Lasses (Mae Mckenna)
There's Three True Gude Fellows (Jamie Mcmenemy)
Thickest Night (Billy Ross)
Thine Am I (Jim Reid)
This Is No My Ain Lassie (John Croall)
Tho' Cruel Fate (Alistair Hulett)
Thou Gloomy December (Corrina Hewat)
Thou Hast Jeft Me Ever, Jamie (Elspeth Cowie)
Thou Ling'ring Star (Jim Reid)
Tibbie Fowler O' The Glen (Mick West)
To Daunton Me (Janet Russell)
To The Weaver's Gin You Go (Janet Russell)
True-Hearted Was He (John Nichol)
Turn Again, Thou Fair Eliza! (Ed Miller)
Twa Bonie Lads (Gillian Macdonald)
Twas Even (Rod Paterson)
Twas In The Seventeen Hunder Year (Gordon Kelly)
Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E'e (Ian Anderson)
Twos Past One O' Clock (Ross Kennedy)
Up And Warn A' Willie (Findlay Napier)
Up And Waur Them A', Jamie (George Duff)
Wae Is My Heart (Karine Polwart)
Wandering Willie (Mae Mckenna)
Weary Fa' You, Duncan Gray (Karine Polwart)
Wee Willie Gray (Tony Cuffe & Rod Paterson)
Wha Is That At My Bower-Door? (John Morran & Elspeth Cowie)
Wha My Babie Clouts (Wendy Weatherby)
Wha Will Buy My Troggin (Ross Kennedy)
Wham Will We Send (Jim Reid)
Whare Are You Gaun, My Bonie Lass? (Brian Miller)
What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi An Auld Man (Ian F Benzie)
What Merriment Has Taen The Whigs (Bobby Eaglesham)
What Will I Do Gin My Hoggie Die? (Christine Kydd)
When First I Came To Stewart Kyle (Ed Miller)
When Guilford Good Our Pilot Stood (Alistair Hulett)
When Mary Cam Over The Border (Wendy Weatherby)
When Maukin Bucks (Rod Paterson)
When Princes And Prelates (Janet Russell)
When Rosy May Comes In Wi' Flowers (Tony Cuffe)
Where Are The Joys? (Jim Reid)
Where Braving Angry Winter's Storms (Kirsten Easdale)
Where Cart Rins Rowin (Lesley Hale)
White Larks With Little Wing (Ross Kennedy)
While Prose-Work And Rhymes (Janet Reid)
Whistle O'er The Lave O't (Billy Ross)
Why Tell Thy Lover (Mairi Campbell)
Will Ye Go To The Indies (Jim Reid)
Willie Brew'd A Peck O' Maut (Tony Cuffe & Rod Paterson)
Willie Wastle (Rod Paterson)
Wilt Thou Be My Deary (John Nichol)
Ye Banks And Braes And Streams (Ross Kennedy)
Ye Banks And Braes O' Bonie Doon (Mick West)
Ye Flowery Banks (Mairi Campbell)
Ye Jacobites By Name (Ian Bruce)
Ye Jovial Boys (Ross Kennedy)
Yestreen I Had A Pint O' Wine (Tony Cuffe)
Yen Wild Mossy Mountains (Jim Reid)
Young And Souple Was I (Davy Steele)
Young Jockie (Gillian Macdonald)
Young Peggy Blooms (George Duff)
Your Friendship (Kirsten Easdale)
You're Welcome To Despots, Dumourier (Steve Byrne)
You're Welcome, Willie Stewart (Mae Mckenna)