Where Have Ye Gone, Charlie? Songs of the ’45
Scots and Gaelic Jacobite songs and laments, preserving the courage, sorrow, and exile of the ’45 Rising
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10 songs
3:14
18th century Scottish folk, traditional Jacobite air, unaccompanied verses, group chorus, single fiddle, martial drumbeat, male solo verses, tavern chorus, stirring, defiant, historical, acoustic, traditional Celtic
3:12
Scottish folk, traditional, male vocal, Great Highland bagpipes, war drums, sparse and intimate opening, building to full intensity, raw, ancient, visceral, unpolished, drums and pipes driving urgency, quiet sparse ending
3:19
Scottish folk, Celtic, traditional, raucous, male vocals, drinking song, bawdy, martial, pipes, bodhran, aggressive, raw, 18th century, battlefield anthem, unpolished, rowdy
3:16
Low female vocals, contralto, Scottish folk, fast tempo, driving bodhrán, urgent, historical, acoustic, 18th century, Jacobite, breathless, defiant, Celtic
3:28
Scottish folk lullaby, Celtic, male vocal, aged voice, sparse, intimate, slow tempo, acoustic guitar, melancholic, hushed, firelight
3:49
18th century, English folk, slow military march, muffled snare drum, sparse, Solo Singer, English male voice, aged voice, haunted, hollow, historical, acoustic, confession, guilt, military, lament
3:44
scottish folk, Scottish accent, Celtic lament, traditional ballad, male vocal, acoustic, sparse, mournful, slow tempo, fiddle, bodhrán
4:07
traditional waulking song style, male gaelic vocals, sean-nós influence, raw and unpolished, single fiddle, ancient scottish, modal, acapella sections, folk drone, highland lament
5:49
Cumha
v5
unaccompanied female voice, scottish gaelic, cumha, keening, lament, a cappella, traditional highland, mournful, raw grief, solo voice, no instruments, 18th century, jacobite era, west highland style, intimate, devastating, women's song tradition
3:59
Scottish folk, highland scottish accent, Celtic lament, mournful, elderly scottish male voice, weathered, sparse, slow, traditional, haunting, fiddle, melancholy, 18th century, ballad, elegiac