Robert Burns's 'John Anderson My Jo' is a polite adaptation of the traditional bawdy song of the same name. The poet adapted the song in 1790 for inclusion in James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum.
The bawdy version of 'John Anderson My Jo' is a traditional folk song. Numerous versions of this song were already in circulation in the early to mid-eighteenth century. The version of the bawdy ...
Country great John ... Anderson tribute album for Holler notes: “Though each of these marquee artists lends their signature sound to their Anderson tribute performance, at no point does the song ...
True to form, John Anderson was in the studio writing and recording a batch of new songs when he got the phone ... we asked ...