Five for Listening: Celebrating Robert Burns & the Scots

Next Wednesday’s Robert Burns Day. Here’s a few for the great poet and his homeland.

Ca’ the Yowes

The Slave’s Lament

Ye Banks and Braes by Holly Tomas

My Love is Like a Red, Rose by Eva Cassidy

Scots Wha’ Hae by Dougie Maclean

Five for Friday: The Many Moods of Winter

Gloomy Winter’s Noo Away by Dougie  Maclean

The Original Frosty the Snowman

Footprints in the Snow by Emerson Lake & Palmer

Song for a Winter’s Night by Gordon Lightfoot

Five for Friday: Jackie Wilson

Lonely Teardrops

(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

Reet Petite

I’m Comin’ Back to You

A Woman, A Lover, A Friend

Five for Friday: Billie Holiday

This one is dedicated to Lady Day, one of the greatest female singers of the twentieth century.

Strange Fruit

God Bless the Child

The Blues Are Brewin’ featuring Louis Armstrong

Stormy Blues

Willow Weep for Me

Five for Friday: Sona Jobarteh

Sona is the first professional female kora player. She is from a Gambian griot family.

Jarabi

Bannaya

Mamamuso

Gambia

Fetafina