Discussion between Davie Stewart, Alan Lomax, and Anna Lomax about berkers

Date recorded: December 1, 1957
Contributor(s): Performer: Stewart, Davie; Performer: Wood, Anna Lomax; Performer: Lomax, Alan; Recordist: Lomax, Alan

Subject(s):

Genre: spoken

Culture: Lowland Scotland, Scottish

Instruments: voice

Setting: Alan Lomax's flat

Location: London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Physical form: Reel to Reel

Tape number: T3451

Track Number: 2

Archive ID: T3451R02

Note: Stewart, Lomax, and Lomax's daughter Anna discuss berkers, men who would murder people to sell their bodies to doctors (as opposed to body-snatchers who would simply dig up fresh corpses). A fragment of this was releases ad "Old Bodies, Five or Six Pounds Each" on "Davie Stewart: Go, On Sing Another Song," Rounder CD 1793, 2002.

Transcript:
Belongs to: Davie Stewart 1957

About the session: Interviews with and songs sung by "The Galoot," Davie Stewart, Traveller, accordion player, and singer.

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