'I'll sing ye a wee bit sang': Selected Songs of James Hogg

Citation

Mack D & Gilbert S (2007) 'I'll sing ye a wee bit sang': Selected Songs of James Hogg. [Audio CD] 2007. http://www.jameshogg.stir.ac.uk/cd.php

Abstract
This CD has been created as part of a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to disseminate new information about the Scottish writer James Hogg (1770-1835). Hogg is probably best known for his prose works, most especially for The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824), though the Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of The Collected Works of James Hogg is beginning to change this by making all of Hogg's output available. Hogg's first literary creations were lyrics for songs, and his love and fascination for traditional tunes and songs continued throughout his literary career, resulting in his work both as a songwriter and collector. Song lyrics were included in Scottish Pastorals (1801) and subsequently in The Mountain Bard (1807); and his major song collections comprised The Forest Minstrel (1810), the First and Second Series of The Jacobite Relics of Scotland (1819 & 1821), both of which included his own songs and those by others, and his final bringing together of his most popular songs in Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd (1831). Songs also appeared in many of his other literary creations, but they were widely published beyond the realms of his own volumes too. They appeared in many independent song sheets and musical collections the length and breadth of the British Isles during his lifetime and even beyond his death. This CD presents a very small selection of Hogg's songs, both from these miscellaneous song sheets and from a variety of his published song collections. Some are sung unaccompanied (as was often the case in the folk tradition), and others present performances as they would have been heard in the drawing rooms of Hogg and his contemporaries.