It is one of those things that are practically written in stone. You simply can’t go wrong with an album of songs written by our Scottish bard of choice, Robert Burns, and Andy M. Stewart – of Silly Wizard fame – duly puts not a foot wrong with his album “Songs of Robert Burns”.
Originally issued way back in 1989, this album is pretty much what you might expect, and interpreted without twists and turns, Andy M Stewart hits the road respectfully with this entirely traditional selection of Burns’ songs exuding all that might be reasonably expected and the end result being more than likely to cause a tear of nationalist inspired sentimentality amongst all who have more than a single drop of the Scottish blood in their veins.
It’s all in the presentation and, devoid of much in the way of frills and frivolity, these eleven songs, rather curiously, still make rather more sense than words of today often do. Maybe that is what makes the words of Burns live even in the microplastic hell of today and, perhaps, that is what Andy M Stewart understood way back in 1989. No matter how you might care to look and listen at this album, it is undeniable that these songs have found a singer that understands them.