Martin Carthy

Because It's There

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Track Listing

1. Nothing Rhymed (2:49)
2. May Song (2:10)
3. Swaggering Boney (tune) (2:42)
4. Lord Randall (4:12)
5. Long John, Old John and Jackie North (6:02)
6. Jolly Tinker (2:58)
7. Lovely Joan (3:11)
8. Three Cripples (3:05)
9. Siege of Delhi (tune) (4:18)
10. Nothing Rhymed (reprise) (1:18)
11. Death of Young Andrew (8:39)




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Crown of horn 1976


TrackList:

The Bedmaking (3:10)
Locks and Bolts (3:13)
King Knapperty (3:30)
Geordie (3:40)
Willie's Lady (7:17)
Virginny (2:16)
The Worcestershire Wedding (3:07)
Bonny Lass of Anglesey (5:40)
William Taylor the Poacher (3:10)
Old Tom of Oxford (tune) (1:44)
Palaces of Gold (5:00)

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Sweet Wivelsfield 1974


TrackList:

Shepherd O Shepherd (3:20)
Billy Boy (2:47)
Three Jolly Sneaksmen (4:09)
Trimdon Grange (6:23)
All of a Row (2:35)
Skewbald (3:40)
Mary Neal (3:55)
King Henry (6:18)
John Barleycorn (2:16)
The Cottage in the Wood (6:12)

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Shearwater



1972 • Pegasus PEG 12 • Mooncrest CREST 25 •• 1991 • Mooncrest CRESTCD 008 •• 2005 • Castle Music CMQCD1096

TrackList:

01 I Was a Young Man (2:46)
02 Banks of Green Willow (4:31)
03 Handsome Polly-O (2:32)
04 Outlandish Knight (5:25)
05 He Called for a Candle (2:49)
06 John Blunt (3:26)
07 Lord Randall (4:35)
08 William Taylor (3:43)
09 Famous Flower of Serving Men (9:23)
10 Betsy Bell and Mary Gray (1:34)

The Castle CD reissue has three bonus tracks from the BBC Radio 1 John Peel session recorded on May 22, 1972 at the Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Avenue, London and broadcast on May 30, 1972:

11 The False Lover Won Back (4:12)
12 King Henry (5:42)
13 Trimdon Grange (4:06)

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The Carthy chronicles


2001 • Free reed FRQCD 60
Classic Carthy

Seventeen Rare, Live and Classic tracks including ten previously un-released songs plus seven hard-to-find Martin Carthy performances, with Dave Swarbrick, Steeleye Span, Wilson Wood Carthy, Brass Monkey, The Watersons, Albion Band, John Kirkpatrick, Howard Evans and Richard Thompson - a choice and rare selection of those crucial Carthy songs most closely associated with him down the years. His earliest vinyl rarities, 'big' ballads he gave to Dylan and Paul Simon, newly-found concert tracks, 'lost' John Peel Show archives, and live recordings from Britain, France & the USA; each song has been weaving in and out Martin's repertoire throughout the past 40 years, and now deserves its place in this hour or so of - 'Classic Carthy'! 79 minutes


TrackList:

01 Scarborough Fair – Wilson Wood Carthy
02 Byker Hill – with Dave Swarbrick
03 Cold Haily Windy Night – Steeleye Span from The Journey
04 Skewbald – live recording from '74 Kertalg Festival
05 Creeping Jane – previously unreleased live recording
06 Old Horse – with Howard Evans, John Kirkpatrick & Richard Thompson
07 A question of sport – Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick from Life & Limb
08 Lovely Joan – with Howard Evans & John Kirkpatrick – previously unreleased live recording
09 The maid and the palmer – Brass Monkey
10 Begging song – with Dave Swarbrick – live recording
11 I was a young man – from Shearwater
12 Prince Heathen – unreleased recording for The John Peel Show BBC
13 Prickle holly bush – The Watersons, with Rachel Carthy – unreleased live recording
14 Lord Franklin – from Second Album
15 Lemady/Arise and Pick a Posy – The Albion Band from Lark Rise to Candleford
16 Famous flower of serving men – from Shearwater
17 Glorishears – John Kirkpatrick and the Plain Capers Band




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Carthy in company

Martin has always been generous with his talent: here are just some of the outstanding collaboration of which he has been a part- erforming with Albion Band, Band of Hope, Dave Swarbrick, Rory McEwen and Lisa Turner, Three City Four, Steeleye Span, Blue Murder, Thames-siders, The Watersons, Ashley Hutchings, John Kirkpatrick, Waterson:Carthy, Oskorri, Richard Thompson, June Tabor, Les Barker. 78 minutes


TrackList:

01 The new St. George – Albion Band, '73 BBC Radio
02 Carthy’s March – Band of Hope
03 I haven’t told her, she hasn’t told me – with Dave Swarbrick, from '67 Danish TV
04 My girl – with Rory McEwen and Lisa Turner, from '64 Hullabaloo TV series
05 Boys of Bedlam – Steeleye Span, Please to see the King
06 Oh had I a golden thread – Three City Four, '65
07 ANC Song (Azicatal) – Blue Murder, unreleased live recording
08 Wimoweh – Thamesiders' EP, '63)
09 Young Banker – The Watersons from the Sounds of York promotional LP
10 The Postman’s Knock – from Son Of Morris On
11 Constant Billy – John Kirkpatrick and the Plain Capers band
12 Lakes of Cold Flynn – unreleased live duet with John Kirkpatrick, New York
13 Irish washerwoman/The Ash Plant – with Dave Swarbrick, from No Songs
14 Arthur McBride – with Dave Swarbrick, from Prince Heathen
15 Bald headed end of the broom – Waterson:Carthy with The Phoenix New Orleans Parade Band
16 Nafarroa – with 0skorri, from 25 Kantu Urte
17 The wren – with Dave Swarbrick, from Prince Heathen
18 The King – Steeleye Span, Please to see the King
19 Joy health love and peace – The Watersons, Sound, Sound....
20 Hunting the wren – Steeleye Span, The Journey
21 Hunting the cutty wren – with June Tabor
22 Byker Hill – with Dave Swarbrick, Life & Limb




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Carthy Contemporaries

'I thought he just did folk songs?? - Perhaps; but here are twenty-three Carthy performances of contemporary songs that Martin has selected from a mighty and eclectic range of 20th century song-makers, from Bob Dylan to Buddy Holly - (via Brecht, Maccoll and Les Barker...) - to delight and amaze us. There's more 'Carthy-cover-versions' here than ever assembled! Most are from hitherto un-released or unavailable sources, with songs of strong social - and social-ist - comment from the pens of Leon Rosselson (with Martin in Three City Four), Sidney Carter (the 'Lord of the Dance' man), from those soul-mates Berthold Brecht and Ewan Maccoll, and songs from lesser known, but no less powerful writers like Cyril Tawney, Tommy Armstrong ('the Pitmans's Poet'), brother-in-law Mike Waterson, even a song by Carthy himself. Martin performs the songs mainly solo, though some are with Swarb, Steeleye, Sidney Carter and the Watersons, in rare concert and club recordings and on tracks from 'long-lost' LPs; And, just so's you know - the set is topped & tailed by Gilbert O'Sullivan's 'Nothing Rhymed' and by West/Petty/Tilghman's 'Rave On' in OTT Buddy Holly-style - perhaps Steeleye Span's strangest single ever!


TrackList:

01 Nothing Rhymed – with John Kirkpatrick
02 Lord of the Dance – with Dave Swarbrick
03 Rivers of Babylon – from Sidney Carter’s '66 Hallelujah album
04 History Lesson – Three City Four, '65
05 The January Man – from Landfall, '71
06 Ballad of Alfie Hinds – from the '64 Hullabaloo TV programme
07 The Humane Turnkey – from Peter Bellamy’s The Transports
08 Farewell, Farewell - alternate mix from Richard Thompson tribute Beat The Retreat )
09 Dust to Dust – from Landfall, '71
10 Stitch in Time – live version, New York, '87
11 Trimdon Grange Disaster – John Peel session
12 Palaces of Gold –from Crown of Horn
13 Springhill Mine Disaster – from First Album, '65
14 Coal not Dole – with The Watersons, New York '87
15 Perfumes of Arabia –live recording, (Pittsburgh,'91)
16 Such a War has Never Been – with Dave Swarbrick
17 The Wife of the Soldier – with Dave Swarbrick, '92
18 The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll – from Signs of Life
19 The Ant and the Grasshopper – Right of Passage
20 Company policy – Andy Kershaw session, '87
21 Monday Morning – live recording, Leeds, '74
22 Rave On – Steeleye Span, original single version, '71
23 Oo'r Hamlet – live recording, Pittsburg, '91
24 The Harry Lime Theme - unreleased Instrumental CD, Topic




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Child Carthy

Twenty of the 'big' ballads and songs from the 'Child Ballads' and from many other archive and traditional sources. Here are fourteen unreleased and previously unavailable tracks, featuring performances with Dave Swarbrick, Norma & Eliza Carthy, Rory McEwen & Lisa Turner, Steeleye Span and Bert Jansch.
Perhaps Carthy's greatest source for these 'big' ballads that inlay his repertoire like fine jewels was the famed collection of the Victorian folklorist Francis Child - 'The Child Ballads' - which is his source for at least nine of these great songs. Martin began to unearth, to perform, and encourage others to perform these great ballads and songs, which soon found their way into the repertoire of folk-rock - via Steeleye, Pentangle, Ralph McTell and Albion - and thence to the wider world of rock, via Traffic, Jethro Tull, Tom Rush, Jerry Garcia, Paul Simon and Bob Dylan.


TrackList:

01 Jack Orion – with Dave Swarbrick, '68
02 Leaves of Life – (Folkscene, '65
03 Duncan and Brady – Hullabaloo TV, '64)
04 Geordie – live on the John Peel Show
05 Sir Patrick Spens – with Eliza Carthy, Signs of Life
06 King Henry – from Sweet Wivelsfield
07 Sovay the Female Highwayman – with Dave Swarbrick, live at Cropredy 2000
08 Man of Newlyn Town – with Dave Swarbrick, '66
09 The Bows of London – with Norma Waterson & Eliza Carthy, live US recording by Peter Bellamy
10 Lucy Wan – with Dave Swarbrick, from Skin and Bone
11 Lord Randall – from Shearwater, '72
12 The Whale Catchers – from A Selection from the Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
13 Rufford Park Poachers – from '80 Andy Kershaw Show
14 John Barleycorn – live at Memphis Folk Club, '73
15 Hard Times of Old England – live in New York, '87
16 Hard Cheese of Old England – from Oranges and Lemmings
17 Over the Hills and Far Away – with chorus, from 70 Golden Nursery Rhymes, '78
18 The Farmer's Servant – live concert at St Andrews, '65
19 False Knight on the Road – with Steeleye Span, from Live at Last, '78
20 The Elfin Knight – with Bert Jansch, from Acoustic Routes

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booklet scans will follow soon, it's a mighty task (100 pages)
bonus Cd rom




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Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick ::: Both ears and the tail
Live at the Folkus Folk Club 1966



2000 • Atrax Records ATRAX RECS 002
2001 • Gadfly Records Gadfly 510
2007 • Topic Records TSCD572

Martin Carthy, vocals, guitar;
Dave Swarbrick, fiddle, mandolin


TrackList:

The Leitrim Fancy / Drowsy Maggie / Staten Island / The Corbie and the Craw (5:03)/High Germany (2:42)
Fair Maid on the Shore (4:25)
Porcupine Rag (2:41)
The Bonny Black Hare (2:14)
Sovay (The Female Highwayman) (1:51)
The Barmaid / Peter St. / The Mason's Apron (3:29)
The Broomfield Hill (3:25)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (4:58)
The Hen's March / The Four Poster Bed (2:31)
Man of Newlyn Town (2:16)
Dill Pickles Rag (3:04)
The Two Magicians (3:49)
The Kid on the Mountain / The Donegal / The Swallow Tail / The Marquis of Tullybardine (4:46)

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Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick - "Straws in the Wind" (2006)



Whenever Martin Carthy, perhaps Britain's most influential folk singer/guitarist of the modern era, and Dave Swarbrick, the renowned fiddler, team up -- as they've done on and off for four decades -- folk enthusiasts applaud loudly. The 2001 release Both Ears & the Tail was in fact a 1966 recording, preceding both Carthy's stint with Steeleye Span and Swarbrick's with Fairport Convention, but Straws in the Wind is a new collaboration, their first since 1992's Skin & Bone, and it's a lovely one at that. It doesn't get any more traditional than this: all but a couple of the songs interpreted by the duo here were found in the 1959 Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, and, with the exception of guest guitarist (and the album's producer) Kevin Dempsey on one track, the Swarbrick-penned "My Heart's in New South Wales," the only instrumentation here is provided by Carthy and Swarbrick. With both musicians playing as brilliantly as ever, and Carthy's voice as expressive as it's ever been, this is a folk purist's dream. These are, by their very nature, songs of times past, echoes of a world that no longer exists. The pair treats the repertoire with all due reverence, but the undeniable intimacy they've established over the years allows for a little more feisty give and take than might have entered in during their more intense earlier years. ~ Jeff Tamarkin, All Music Guide


Tracks:

01 death of queen jane
02 ship in distress
03 whalecatchers
04 when i was a little boy
05 bride's march from unst / true lover's lament / lord inchiquin
06 royal oak
07 treadmill song
08 unfortunate tailor
09 bold benjamin
10 Mrs Marriott
11 jacky tar
12 mermaid
13 lord thomas and fair eleanor
14 my heart's in new south wales

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Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick - Prince Heathen (1969)




TrackList:

01 - Arthur McBride and the Sergeant
02 - Salisbury Plain
03 - Polly on the Shore
04 - The Rainbow
05 - Died for Love
06 - Staines Morris
07 - Reynardine
08 - Seven Yellow Gypsies
09 - Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
10 - Prince Heathen
11 - The Wren

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Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick - Life and Limb (1991)


Singer/guitarist Martin Carthy and fiddler Dave Swarbrick complement each other nicely: Carthy sings in a plain, openhearted voice and plays guitar virtuosically but in moderation; Swarbrick fiddles energetically, but without excessive ornamentation. This leads to an admirable focus on the songs themselves, and to generally somewhat less-than-compelling instrumental interludes. On the set consisting of "The Pepperpot," "Sailing into Walpole's Marsh" and "Bunker Hill," Swarbrick starts off playing with a sweet, fruity, almost Brahmsian tone before lapsing back into his usual straightforward fiddle style; "Oh Dear Oh" is played and sung in a lurching compound meter. "The Begging Song" is ancient and depressing, just like all the best English ballads, but the highlight of the album is the lovely "Lochmaben Harper" -- listen especially to Carthy's quietly perfect guitar accompaniment.


TrackList:

01 - Sovay
02 - The Begging Song
03 - Bows of London
04 - The Pepperpot / Sailing Into Walpole's Marsh / Bunker Hill
05 - A Question of Sport
06 - Oh Dear Oh
07 - Carthy's March / Lemon Tree
08 - Lochmaben Harper
09 - Byker Hill

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Martin Carthy at Ruskin Mill



Live recording done for charity benefit, released briefly in 2005. Rec. at Ruskin Mill, Nailsworth, Glos, December 4, 2004.


TrackList:

CD 1

1. Introduction by Sue Smee
2. Jackie Tar
3. Green Broom
4. The Cuckoo's Nest
5. The Foggy Dew
6. Bill Norrie
7. The Royal Lament
8. Willie's Lady


CD 2

1. Jack Rowland
2. Princess Royal
3. Christ Made a Trance
4. Georgie
5. Lochmaben Harper
6. Two Retreats
7. Oor Hamlet
8. Famous Flower of Serving Men
9. The Devil and the Feathery Wife
10. The Harry Lime Theme (Third Man Theme)

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Signs 0f Life-1999





This is the first album from this giant of British folk music for over a decade. Martin Carthy (MBE)'s sparse, refined guitar phrasing has influenced a whole generation of singer-songwriters, from the melancholy inward musings of Nick Drake, through Richard Thompson and Paul Simon, to Bob Dylan's "ancient and modern" style. His plaintive voice is in full effect here on sensitive covers of The Bee Gees' "New York Mining Disaster 1941" and the traditional "Prince Heathen"--as is his unique guitar instrumentation. "Heartbreak Hotel", meanwhile, is reinterpreted as a lonesome country blues. With occasional help from daughter Eliza, this is an album that proves folk rockers like Carthy only grow in stature with the passing of time. --Everett True



Track List

1 New York Mining Disaster, 1941
2 Georgie
3 Sir Patrick Spens
4 Deserter, The
5 Heartbreak Hotel
6 Bonny Hind, The
7 Wife of Ushers Well, The
8 John Parfit
9 Barbary Ellen
10 Hong Kong Blues
11 Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, The
12 Prince Heathen
13 Jim Jones in Botany Bay

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Martin Carthy {1965}



Carthy's debut album rates a place alongside the album by Bob Dylan, as the debut work of a man who ultimately revolutionized folk music performance in England (Carthy is mentioned as an influence on the notes to Dylan's Freewheelin' album). This is Carthy's purest and simplest folk effort, an all-acoustic recording done in barely an afternoon that includes his version of "Scarborough Fair," awhich Paul Simon learned from Carthy (including the chords and changes from Carthy's arrangement) and transformed into a hit of his own. Also here is "Two Magicians," a song that later entered the repertory Steeleye Span, and "Lovely Joan," a folk song that is most familiar to classical listeners as the source of the counter-melody to Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Fantasia on Greensleeves." The playing and the interpretations are somewhat less ambitious and rather rougher than subsequent efforts, with Dave Swarbrick guesting on fiddle on about half the tracks, and Carthy's guitar covering all but the acapella tracks.


Tracklist:

01 - High Germany Martin Carthy
02 - Trees They Do Grow High, the Martin Carthy
03 - Sovay Martin Carthy
04 - Ye Mariners All Martin Carthy
05 - Queen Of Hearts, the Martin Carthy
06 - Broomfield Hill Martin Carthy
07 - Springhill Mine Disaster Martin Carthy
08 - Scarborough Fair Martin Carthy
09 - Lovely Joan Martin Carthy
10 - Barley & The Rye, the Martin Carthy
11 - Wind That Shakes The Barley, the Martin Carthy
12 - 2 Magicians, the Martin Carthy
13 - Handsome Cabin Boy, the Martin Carthy
14 - And A Begging I Will Go Martin Carthy





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