Ewan MacColl

Ewan MacColl
Nazionalità	Regno Unito
Genere	Canzone politica Folk
Periodo di attività musicale	1930 – 1989

Ewan MacColl, pseudonimo di James Henry Miller (Salford, 25 gennaio 1915 – Kensington e Chelsea, 22 ottobre 1989), è stato un cantautore, attivista, drammaturgo, poeta e produttore discografico britannico.

Biografia

È stato uno dei principali interpreti del secondo Folk revival britannico e autore di standard come The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Dirty Old Town e Sweet Thames Flow Softly. Nel 1973 ha vinto il Grammy Award alla canzone dell'anno, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, interpretata da Roberta Flack.

Politicamente era attivo nel Partito Comunista di Gran Bretagna.

Era il padre della cantante Kirsty MacColl.

Discografia

Album solista

• Scots Street Songs (1956)
• Shuttle and Cage (1957)
• Barrack Room Ballads (1958)
• Still I Love Him (1958)
• Bad Lads and Hard Cases (1959)
• Songs of Robert Burns (1959)
• Haul on the Bowlin'(1961)
• The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Child Ballads) (1961)
• Broadside Ballads, vols 1 and 2 (1962)
• Off to Sea Once More (1963)
• Four Pence a Day (1963)
• British Industrial Folk songs (1963)
• Steam Whistle Ballads (1964)
• Bundook Ballads (1967)
• The Wanton Muse (1968)
• Paper Stage 1 (1969)
• Paper Stage 2 (1969)
• Solo Flight (1972)
• Hot Blast (1978)
• Daddy, What did You Do in The Strike? (1985)

Collaborazione – A.L. Lloyd & Ewan MacColl, con Steve Benbow

• Gamblers and Sporting Blades (E.P.) (1962)

Collaborazione – Ewan MacColl and A.L. Lloyd

• Bold Sportsmen All: Gamblers & Sporting Blades (1962)
• A Sailor's Garland (1966)
• Blow Boys Blow (1967)

Collaborazione – A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl, Louis Killen, Ian Campbell, Cyril Tawney, Sam Larner & Harry H. Corbett

• Blow the Man Down (EP) (1956)

Collaborazione – A.L. Lloyd & Ewan MacColl

• A Hundred Years Ago (EP) (1956)
• The Coast of Peru (EP) (1956)
• The Singing Sailor (1956)
• The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Vol 1 (1956)
• The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Vol 2 (1956)
• The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Vol 3 (1956)
• The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Vol 4 (1956)
• The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Vol 5 (1956)
• Songs Against the Bomb (1960)
• English and Scottish Folk Ballads (1964)

Collaborazione – Bob & Ron Copper, Ewan MacColl, Isla Cameron, Seamus Ennis & Peter Kennedy

• As I Roved Out (1953–4)

Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger

• Popular Scottish Songs (1960)
• Classic Scots Ballads (1961)
• Chorus From The Gallows (1961)
• Jacobite Songs – The Two Rebellions 1715 and 1745 (1962)
• The Amorous Muse (1966)
• The Manchester Angel (1966)
• The Angry Muse (1968)
• Saturday Night at The Bull and Mouth (1977)
• Cold Snap (1977)
• Kilroy Was Here
• Freeborn Man
• Items of News (1986)
• Scottish Drinking and Pipe Songs
• Naming of Names (1990)
• The Jacobite Rebellions (1962)
• The Long Harvest 1 (1966)
• The Long Harvest 2 (1967)
• The Long Harvest 3 (1968)
• The Long Harvest 4 (1969)
• The Long Harvest 5 (1970)
• The Long Harvest 6 (1971)
• The Long Harvest 7 (1972)
• The Long Harvest 8 (1973)
• The Long Harvest 9 (1974)
• The Long Harvest 10 (1975)
• Blood and Roses (1979)
• Blood and Roses 2 (1981)
• Blood and Roses 3 (1982)
• Blood and Roses 4 (1982)
• Blood and Roses 5 (1983)

Ewan MacColl/The Radio Ballads (1958–1964)

• Ballad of John Axon (1958)
• Song of a Road (1959)
• Singing The Fishing (1960)
• The Big Hewer (1961)
• The Body Blow (1962)
• On The Edge (1963)
• The Fight Game (1964)
• The Travelling People (1964)

Collegamenti esterni

• (EN) Ewan MacColl, su Enciclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
• (EN) Ewan MacColl, su Goodreads.
• (EN) Ewan MacColl, su AllMusic, All Media Network.
• (EN) Ewan MacColl, su Discogs, Zink Media.
• (EN) Ewan MacColl, su MusicBrainz, MetaBrainz Foundation.
• (EN) Ewan MacColl, su SecondHandSongs.
• (EN) Ewan MacColl, su IMDb, IMDb.com.
• (EN) Ewan MacColl / Ewan MacColl (altra versione), su Internet Broadway Database, The Broadway League.