Jeannie Robertson

Jeannie Robertson ( * as Regina Christina Stewart April 17, 1908 in Aberdeen, † March 13, 1975 ibid ) was a Scottish folk singer.

Jeannie Robertson grew up as the daughter of Travellers on in Aberdeen and throughout Scotland. At one of their places of residence in Aberdeen, the 90 Hilton Street in Aberdeen, today commemorated by a plaque on it. It was discovered in 1953 by Hamish Henderson. In November of the same year Alan Lomax took them along with Jean Ritchie, Margaret Barry and Isla Cameron at his home in London. Many of these early recordings were released in 1975 on the album The Queen Among the Heather.

Jeannie Robertson and the other, which started Lomax, then appeared in the television show The Ballad Hunters, in which David Attenborough directed. 1958 made ​​Hamish Henderson in Edinburgh more shots with Jeannie Robertson, published under the name Up the Dee and Doon The Don. 1965 was the first " Blairgowrie Festival", in which Jeannie Robertson occurred. Your performance at the festival in 1968 appeared on an anthology.

1968 Jeannie Robertson received the M.B.E. Order. She died in 1975 Her most famous song is probably I'm a man you do not meet every day, also known as Jock Stewart.; the track was recorded, among others, Archie Fisher, the Dubliners and the Pogues.

Lizzie Higgins, the daughter of Jeannie Robertson, 1975 brought out the album Up and Awa ' wi ' the Laverock.