Now Westlin Winds (1785) by Robert Burns
Episode description
S3E83 To celebrate Burns Night, Ash talks about Robert Burns' Now Westlin Winds, a song written at the very start of the Bard's career. Tune in for a discussion of the circumstances that inspired the song, and the long and fruitful afterlife it has had in the repertoire of folk-singers from Burns' day to our own.
Songs featured:
I Had A Horse and I Had Nae Mair by Katherine Campbell:
Now Westlin Winds (Port Gordon Version) by Andrew Calhoun:
Lady Keith Laments by Jock Tamsons Bairds:
Ally Croker by Katherine Liley Lovaig:
Now Westlin Winds by Dick Gaughan:
Noe Westlin Winds at the Scottish Parliament, 2011:
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