The Scottish Song Guide

After a little break, we’re back with the 5th episode of the series and in this podcast we’re discussing The Four Maries, sometimes known as The Ballad of Mary Hamilton but first published by Sir Walter Scott as The Queen’s Marie. The song features on our latest album, Bends of the Bow.

Episode 4 sees Douglas & Marty considering Walter Scott’s song about John Graham of Claverhouse, Bonnie Dundee. With words penned at the end of 1825, the song has become one of the staples of the Scottish song collection and its popularity has seen it parodied and reworked throughout the English speaking world.

The third episode of The Scottish Song Guide sees Marty & Douglas discuss two songs written by Adam Skirving during the 1745-46 Jacobite Uprising, Hey Johnnie Cope and Tranent Muir (now better known as "The Battle of Prestonpans").

Episode 2 of The Scottish Song Guide sees Marty & Douglas discuss the origins of Auld Lang Syne, the meaning and sentiments expressed in the lyrics and the different tunes to which the words have been set through the centuries.

Listen in to the first episode of our Scottish Song Guide, in which we discuss The Braes Of Killiecrankie.

The Braes Of Killiecrankie is one of Scotland’s best known folk songs, published by James Hogg but thought to have been penned in part by Robert Burns. In this podcast Douglas Kay & Martin Philip discuss the publication of the song, the figures and the events which inspired it, and how the song played a pivotal role in bringing Marty & Doug together to form The Sorries.