Hi all. Just listening to the Bothy Ballads: Music from the North-East CD from Greentrax Records. Some great stuff on there (Jimmy MacBeath and others).

But the performance that really stopped me in my tracks was a version of "My Last Farewell to Stirling" by a singer called Charlie Murray. I only know this song from a book by Ewan MacColl, but the tune Charlie Murray sings is much more haunting and modal. (The tune given in the MacColl book is a bit more English-hymn-sounding).

Anyway, Charlie Murray has (or had, I should say) a great voice. Very little on the Internet about him though. The two songs he sang on this compilation appear to be his only recordings. Does anyone know of any other recordings that were made of his singing?