EKanne wrote:-
"type in Kist o Riches, which is the archive of The School of Scottish Studies in Edinburgh and contains recordings of Jeannie from the 1950s"

Actually this is the link that I provided in my post of 02 Feb 12 - 08:53 - under its Gaelic name of Tobar An Dualchais.

When you write please note that it varied according to recording date - slowing as she got older/was persuaded of its significance, you are 100% spot on. I feel that the enthomusicologists who praised Jeannie to the skies in front of her face have a lot to answer for. She slowed her songs down so that people could see the beauty of her voice rather than concentrate on just being the magnificent singer and interpreter of the tradition that she was. She also started to develop some of the behaviour associted with operatic divas.

I think that I have all of Jeannie's commercially recorded material and the most recently released, strangely enough are some of the earliest recordings of her, made by Alan Lomax at his London flat. Jeannie was never happy to be away from Scotland, indeed away from Aberdeen and I know from Jeannie herself that she was not well when they were made - but they are amongst her very finest recordings. They are on The Queen Among The Heather Rounder 11661-1720-2

In a separate posting, Ekanne wrote:-
"surely we're all expressing personal preferences here, and the thread specifically relates to Jeannie"

...and all I am trying to do here is to share a great enthusiam, which I hope that I can do without being accused of being didactic as I was earlier in this thread.