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23 de ene. de 2018 · Taken from the album Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger & Charles Parker ‘The Big Hewer’ 1967 on Argo Records.
British coalminers have many stories of a superhuman worker who is known by a variety of names: Temple, Tempest, Torr, Towers and (in Wales) Isaac Lewis. He is also known as The Big Hewer and The Big Miner.
extrait du LP " Freeborn Man", Blackthorne Records, 1983, BR 1065.
The Big Hewer was the fourth in the series and named after the mythically prodigious miner of coal legend who appears by a different name in each mining locality (a similar figure with superhuman work powers, John Henry, exists in American work gang mythology).
The hero-figure of the British coalfield - is he real? or imaginary? is he man? or machine?
The Big Hewer by Ewan MacColl released in 1959. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
9 de sept. de 2020 · The Big Hewer was devised and curated by folk musicians and activists Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, and by BBC radio producer Charles Parker, using oral testimony from miners of the Durham, Northumberland, Glamorgan and Nottinghamshire coalfields.
