Davie Stewart 1957

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

MacPherson's Rant

The Day We Went To Rothesay-O

Mormond Braes

The Merchant's Son

Auld Jock Bruce O The Fornet

The Hash O Bennagoak

Nicky Tams

The Glendaruel Highlanders

Story of the piper and the fairies

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

Berker story (part 1)

Berker story (part 2)

Interview with Davie Stewart about cant, the Traveller language

Interview with Davie Stewart about farm labor, bothy life, and the differences between Irish and Scots music

Interview with Davie Stewart about diddling / Miss McLeod's Reel / The Lonely Shepherd's Daughter

Interview with Davie Stewart about an Irish cattle drover, the song I'm Often Drunk And Seldom Sober, and Irish banjo player Teddy Furey

Interview with Davie Stewart about bawdy songs

The Highland Tinker

Interview with Davie Stewart about traveller camping methods

The Tarves Rant

The Dowie Dens O Yarrow

The Dying Ploughboy

Bogie's Bonny Belle

McGinty's Meal And Ale

Interview with Davie Stewart about traveller singing style / Bonny Udny

Tramps And Hawkers

Drumdelgie

Jamie Raeburn

Maggie The Milkmaid

Interview with Davie Stewart about Maggie The Milkmaid

The Laird Of Dentidoonbye

Dark-Eyed Lover

Interview with Davie Stewart about Dark-Eyed Lover

The Roving Tinker

Interview with Davie Stewart about The Roving Tinker

Interview with Davie Stewart about meeting his wife and settling down

Interview with Davie Stewart about playing an all-night hooley in Ireland

Interview with Davie Stewart about travelling in Ireland, playing the fairs, and two lost ponies

Interview with Davie Stewart about travelling in Ireland and fighting

Interview with Davie Stewart about his upbringing, childhood, ancestors, and family

Interview with Davie Stewart about being disciplined by his father

Interview with Davie Stewart about his father, childhood, farmer-traveller relations, and the first song he learned

Interview with Davie Stewart about courtship, love, and sex

Interview with Davie Stewart about his travels and his taste for Irish music

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