Freeborn Man

The full title is "Freeborn Man of the Travelling People". I first heard this Ewan MacColl song years ago and instantly fell in love with it. Thanks to recent google searches I was able to find out that MacColl had written and recorded this song as part of a BBC series entitled "The Radio Ballads". This song was on the last episode entitled "The Travelling People" and was broadcast in 1964. I made my recording of it just for fun and never planned to share it with the outside world until youtube came along. If you enjoy this you must check out MacColl's discography. BTW MacColl wrote Roberta Flack's megahit "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" for his wife Peggy Seeger.

On my recording, I play all the instruments and sing. On this clip I'm playing along with the track. - FK

For additional info see:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/radioballads/original/travellingpeople.shtml

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Freeborn
• Man
• Travelling
• People
• fretkillr
• acoustic
• guitar
• folk
• MacColl

[DrHotuna]

I'm glad to see you fighting "the man" with your beautiful music. Thanks for being an inspiration to all us guitar nuts.

[Dino181210]

Its allways a pleasure to listen to you. And thank god for bearcat, that did an awesome job by keeping your songs alive, while you where shut down... Thank you Frettkillr, glad you are back ;-)

[Caribman9999]

Really great to have you back. Bearcat did a fine job keeping us all supplied with copies of your older videos, but it good having you, with all your stories, coming back..

I think one reason you're so popular on here is that your playing and singing are representing to guys like me what I would say is a dream of how, and what, we'd like to play and sing. And there's not ONE of your songs that I've ever listened to without saying " I'd like to be ably to play and sing this myself!"

[gryphon50]

It is sooo great to have you back. I think this your best vocal of all your posted vids.

For the next sets, would you include more of Roger Whittaker's stuff?

[lrover03]

Sweet! Man, it sure is good to see ya back. :))

[thinkfree63]

So beautiful...