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Article: Various The King Has Landed: Songs of the Jacobite Rebellion.(Sound Recording Review)
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- January 1, 2003
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This album takes all those Jacobite songs you've been hearing for years and puts them on one CD. It may well become the standard musical document of Scotland's ill-fated 18th century rebellion against union with England. After listening to it, you may come to share my opinion that never has so much wonderful music been composed for such a worthless family as that devoted to the pompous James Edward Stuart and his inept son Charles.
A short history lesson: James II of England (James VII of Scotland) was deposed by the Glorious Revolution of 1688, an event also approved by the Scottish Parliament. The Stuart cause, however, was favored by ...
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