Mcginn,Matt On The Road From Aldermaston: Comp Transatlantic CD

Two CD collection. Although he died forty years ago, the reputation of Matt McGinn endures and even expands. Having left behind a dazzling legacy of more than five hundred songs, the life's work of the man dubbed "Scotland's Woody Guthrie" by Tom Paxton was commemorated in 2004 with a concert that was staged in New York on Broadway, where Pete Seeger suggested that "... if there's a human race here in hundreds of years, people alive then will still be singing his songs". One of the key figures of the folk revival in Scotland, McGinn was a prodigiously talented singer/songwriter who moved effortlessly between ribald humour, topical novelties, good-natured parodies, children's verse, tender love songs and heavily politicised protest material. This anthology represents his four-year spell in the late '60s with leading folk label Transatlantic, for whom he recorded a quartet of albums that contain many of his best-loved and most enduring songs - including 'Coorie Doon' and 'Three Nights And A Sunday', both of which would be included alongside the likes of Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly and Bob Dylan in the Smithsonian's Top One Hundred Folk Songs of the 20th Century.

1. The Red Yo Yo 2. Willie MacNamara 3. Old Johnny Bull 4. Big Sammy 5. The Footba' Referee 6. Ban the Beatles 7. The Heilan' Man 8. The First Man on the Moon 9. Manura Manyar 10. The Gallowgate Calypso 11. Lots of Little Soldiers 12. Unner Alow the Ground 13. Rob Roy McGregor 14. Mambo 15. The Rolling Hills of the Border 16. Moaning 17. We'll All Be Angels 18. On the Road from Aldermaston 19. I.O.U 20. The Ballad of John McLean 21. The King and the Key 22. Three Nights and a Sunday 23. Rosy Anna 24. I'm Looking for a Job 25. Big Willie's Blues 26. The Boys from Lisbon 27. Honesty Is Out of the Fashion 28. The Pekinese Dog 29. The Sash/Kevin Barry 30. The Dundee Ghost 31. The Ballad of the Q4 32. Biddie McGrath 33. The Leaving of Liverpool 34. Rosin the Bow 35. Two Foot Tall 36. The Sequel to the Dundee Weaver 37. No Nay Never 38. The Big Orange Whale 39. The Pill 40. Coorie Doon 41. I Have Seen the Highlands 42. I'll Be Coming Home to Glasgow 43. The Cleansing Man 44. The Witches Song 45. Polly Had a Poodle 46. Little Ticks of Time 47. Skinny Ma Linky Long Legs 48. The Man in the Moon 49. Bingo Bella 50. Jolly Red Nose 51. Mornin' Eleanora 52. Tra la la Tweet Tweet 53. Oor Wee Wean 54. The Dundee Cat 55. Eternity Will Soon Be Over 56. Loch Lomond