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Thread #92750   Message #3852431
Posted By: GUEST,Dom
25-Apr-17 - 06:13 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Gairdner and the Plooman (Jean Redpath)
Subject: RE: Origins: Gairdner and the Plooman (Jean Redpath)
Thanks for posting this song "Gairdner and the Plooman". It's one of my favorites. She sings it so beautifully the way only Jean Redpath can deliver a song.

There is a very nice recording on Kist O Riches, in fact there are 72 search results for Jean Redpath aficionados.

Found here:
http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/fullrecord/85379/1

Guitar accompaniment. Recorded at the Scott Conference Ceilidh 1971.
Says Melody learned from Murray Shoolbraid, originally from Leslie in Fife.

In this song a woman is seduced by a false gardener, but later finds happiness with a ploughman.

Jean was such a tremendous asset to the folk revival and a lovely person. 2008 inductee in the Scottish traditional music hall of fame. Coming up to her third anniversary this year, 21 August.