Janet Russell

About the artist

Janet Russell (born in Buckhaven, Fife, on 11 January 1958) is a Scottish folk singer and guitarist (and aunt of musician Elsa Jean McTaggart). As well as solo recordings, she recorded as Janet Russell & Christine Kydd (in the 1980s and 90s) and as a member of Sisters Unlimited. Russell began her career singing in the folk clubs of Edinburgh and went on to support a number of major artists at the Edinburgh Folk and Fringe Festivals from 1980-1983.

Top songs

  1. O Wha'll Mow Me Now?
  2. To the Weaver's Gin You Go
  3. To Daunton Me
  4. Song of the Olive Tree
  5. Duncan Gray
  6. Guns And Bombs
  7. Rosa's Lovely Daughters
  8. O Wha'll Mow Me Now
  9. St Peter's Fields
  10. Hey Ca' Thro And The Deil's Awa Wi' The Exciseman
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  1. The Dowie Dens Of Yarrow
  2. Hey Ca Thro - The Deil's Awa wi th'Exciseman
  3. The Twa Corbies
  4. Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight
  5. The Fisherman's Wife
  6. While Prose-Work And Rhymes / When Princes And Prelates
  7. Rattlin' Roarin' Willie
  8. There Was A Lass
  9. O Sing a New Song
  10. Dainty Davie
  11. Old Woman is Watching
  12. Hey Ca' Thro / The Deil's Awa wi' th' Exciseman
  13. All the Tunes in the World
  14. Fast Bright Nights
  15. Mary Ambree
  16. Sanctuary
  17. O Wha'll M-w Me Now
  18. Old & Strong / The Mountain song
  19. My Donald / Ode to Big Blue
  20. The parting glass
  21. The Hills of Ardmorn
  22. The Blude Red Rose
  23. The Children Are Running
  24. Land of the Leal
  25. Choices
  26. Curtain Call
  27. The Secretary's Song
  28. Buy Broom Besoms
  29. Bright Shining Morning?
  30. Song of the Olive Tree - Janet Russell
  31. You Ebb and Flow
  32. Last Carol
  33. Do You Love And Apple
  34. Bonny at morn
  35. Banks of Sweet Dundee
  36. Deja mal mariee
  37. The Band of Shearers
  38. Across the Wide Ocean
  39. Janet Russell - Banks of Sweet Dundee
  40. Ettrick
  41. Accidents
  42. Women O' Dundee
  43. There was a Lass and She was Fair
  44. Sheath and Knife
  45. Song for a Seafarer
  46. Childminder's Song
  47. Mouth Music
  48. Jeannie Jenkins
  49. Soweto
  50. The Bluebell Polka
  51. While Prose-Work and Rhymes, When Princes and Prelates
  52. Come Let Me Take Thee / Jockie's Ta'en the Parting Kiss
  53. Stand Up Fight For Your Rights / Everyone 'Neath A Vine & Fig Tree
  54. Up Wi The Carls O'dysart / The Deils
  55. Up Wi' the Carls o' Dysart
  56. Sodjer's Cairn
  57. Matt Hyland
  58. Collier Laddie
  59. Wexford Lullaby
  60. Willie Brewed A Peck O' Maut/Barren Rocks Of Aden/Swing Yer Maw
  61. Eppie Morrie
  62. Steely Water/Donal Og
  63. Waxie's Dargle
  64. Waly Waly Up The Bank
  65. The Creole Girl's Lament
  66. My Laddie Sits/Maire Nighean Alastair/Gie My Love Brose
  67. The Pigeon & The Sparra
  68. Pretty Polly
  69. The Dowie Dens Of Yarrow - Janet Russell
  70. The Criminal
  71. The Band of Shearers / The Musical Priest / The Wind That Shakes the Barley
  72. the terror time
  73. The Twa Corbies - Janet Russell
  74. Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight - Janet Russell
  75. Sanctuar
  76. To Daunton Me / Janet Russell
  77. Curtain Call [a]
  78. The Blude Red Rose [a]
  79. The Band of Shearers / The Musical Priest / The Wind That Shakes the Barley [a]
  80. The Hills of Ardmorn [a]
  81. Women O'Dundee
  82. Janet Russell - Pretty Polly
  83. All the Tunes in the World [a]
  84. Fast Bright Nights [a]
  85. Bury My Heart
  86. The Children Are Running [a]
  87. Dowie Dens of Yarrow
  88. The Twa' Corbies
  89. Lord Maxwall's Last Goodnight
  90. The Fishermans Wife

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