Ewan MacColl
# Ewan MacColl

James Henry Miller, noto con il nome d'arte Ewan MacColl (Salford, 25 gennaio 1915 – Kensington e Chelsea, 22 ottobre 1989), è stato un cantautore, attivista, drammaturgo poeta e produttore discografico scozzese.

È stato uno dei principali interpreti del secondo Folk revival britannico e autore di standard come The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face e Dirty Old Town. 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)
