Featured track sung by Eddi Reader: Ae Fond Kiss (written by Robert Burns).
Eddi Reader MBE (born Sadenia Reader; 29 August 1959) is a Scottish singer/songwriter, known both for her work with Fairground Attraction and for an enduring solo career. She is the recipient of three BRIT Awards and has topped both the album and singles charts. In 2003 she showcased the works of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) also known as Rabbie Burns. Scotland's favourite son, he's simply The Bard. A poet and a lyricist who died when only 37 years old, Burns is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement and a cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish Diaspora around the world. Robert Burns is probably best known to the international community for Auld Lang Syne ; reputedly the second best known work in the world, after *Happy Birthday.
An example of Burns' musical influence on US singer/songwriters is, among others: Lou Reed and Pattie Smith, both of whom have headlined in the annual Burns Festival, each performing only Burns' material.
His literary influence in the U.S. is seen in the choice by novelist John Steinbeck for the title of his 1937 novel, Of Mice and Men, taken from a line in the second-to-last stanza of the Burns poem, To A Mouse. "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men /Gang aft agley." Burns' influence on American vernacular poets such as James Whitcomb Riley and Frank Lebby Stanton has been acknowledged by their biographers.When asked for the source of his greatest creative inspiration, singer/songwriter Bob Dylan selected Burns's 1794 song A Red, Red Rose, as the lyric that had the biggest effect on his life.The author J. D. Salinger used protagonist Holden Caulfield's misinterpretation of Burns' poem Comin' Through the Rye as his title and a main interpretation of Holden's grasping to his childhood in his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. The poem, actually about a rendezvous, is thought by Holden to be about saving people from falling out of childhood.
The Burns Museum containing over 5000 documents was opened recently and you can go to the link below to see a short video. (Wikipedia) (Video/Logo: Copyright Control)
http://local.stv.tv/glasgow/213272-new-burns-museum-opens-to-public/
* Written and composed by American siblings Patty Hill and Mildred J. Hill in 1893.
Eddi Reader MBE (born Sadenia Reader; 29 August 1959) is a Scottish singer/songwriter, known both for her work with Fairground Attraction and for an enduring solo career. She is the recipient of three BRIT Awards and has topped both the album and singles charts. In 2003 she showcased the works of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) also known as Rabbie Burns. Scotland's favourite son, he's simply The Bard. A poet and a lyricist who died when only 37 years old, Burns is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement and a cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish Diaspora around the world. Robert Burns is probably best known to the international community for Auld Lang Syne ; reputedly the second best known work in the world, after *Happy Birthday.
An example of Burns' musical influence on US singer/songwriters is, among others: Lou Reed and Pattie Smith, both of whom have headlined in the annual Burns Festival, each performing only Burns' material.
His literary influence in the U.S. is seen in the choice by novelist John Steinbeck for the title of his 1937 novel, Of Mice and Men, taken from a line in the second-to-last stanza of the Burns poem, To A Mouse. "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men /Gang aft agley." Burns' influence on American vernacular poets such as James Whitcomb Riley and Frank Lebby Stanton has been acknowledged by their biographers.When asked for the source of his greatest creative inspiration, singer/songwriter Bob Dylan selected Burns's 1794 song A Red, Red Rose, as the lyric that had the biggest effect on his life.The author J. D. Salinger used protagonist Holden Caulfield's misinterpretation of Burns' poem Comin' Through the Rye as his title and a main interpretation of Holden's grasping to his childhood in his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. The poem, actually about a rendezvous, is thought by Holden to be about saving people from falling out of childhood.The Burns Museum containing over 5000 documents was opened recently and you can go to the link below to see a short video. (Wikipedia) (Video/Logo: Copyright Control)
* Written and composed by American siblings Patty Hill and Mildred J. Hill in 1893.
