Wednesday, March 19, 2014

The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
Déanta, "Culloden's Harvest" from Green Linnet Records: The Twentieth Anniversary Collection (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: Green Linnet Records: The Twentieth Anniversary Collection was released in 1994, & my family acquired the C.D. just a couple years later. Though I've listened to these songs for almost two decades, last night was the first time I really heard the lyrics of "Culloden's Harvest," a lament about the Jacobite defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1745. Truly, a lament. As the archtraitor General Lee is reputed to have said, in 1862, "It is well that war is so terrible—otherwise we would grow too fond of it."

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