The Bonnie Pit Laddie: A Miner's Life in Music and Song

The Bonnie Pit Laddie: A Miner's Life in Music and Song Artist: The High Level Ranters
Label: Topic Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 714822048620
EAN: 0714822048620
ASIN: B00000591G


Release Date: 1997-09-09

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Tracks:

  1. The Hewer
  2. Doon The Wagon Way
  3. A Miner's Life
  4. I Wish Pay Friday Wad Come
  5. The Auchengeich Disaster
  6. The Collier's Rant
  7. Farewell To The Monty
  8. The Putter
  9. Little Chance
  10. My Gaffer's Bait
  11. The Coal Owner And The Pitman's Wife
  12. The Blacking Miners
  13. The Miner's Lockout
  14. The South Medomsley Strike
  15. The Durham Lockout
  16. Aa'm Glad The Strike's Done
  17. The Collier's Pay Week Cut And Dry Dolly/Success To The Coal Trade...
  18. I'll Have A Collier
  19. The Stoneman's Song
  20. The Hartley Calamity
  21. Bonnie Woodha
  22. The Banks Of The Dee
  23. The Bonny Pit Laddie
  24. The Bonny Pit Laddie

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Charming UK/Celtic folk songs.......2002-12-26

Coal mining is a subject that holds a continuing fascination for UK folkies, both as folklore and as a topic fit for all upstanding class-conscious lefties. (The Thatcher-era miner's strike was one of the last great British labor struggles of the 20th Century... Scotland's gruff-voiced Dick Gaughan, who contributes several excellent performances to this disc, revisited the miner's plight on a couple of albums that came out in the mid-1980s.) At any rate, this is a fine album, featuring an celebrated Northumbrian ensemble anchored by Alastair Anderson on concertina, along with Johnny Handle, Colin Ross and Tommy Gilfellon. Gaughan sings on a couple of songs and Lancashire's Harry Boardman on a couple others -- the whole album is nice, with goofy, sprightly, humorous songs and lots of that oddball Celtic musical charm. I thought this record would sound really dry and academic, but was pleasantly surprised at how fun it was. Definitely worth checking out!

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