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Straws in the Wind [CD]

Martin Carthy | Format: Audio CD
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Over the past five decades Martin Carthy has been one of the most persistent and dedicated practitioners of English traditional music. He has been an essential figure in most of the significant developments in folk music during that time. To chronicle his career is to discuss the rich and diverse history of the English folk song revival since the early 1960s. His early work was an inspiration to… Read more in Amazon's Martin Carthy Store

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  • Audio CD (9 Aug 2010)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Topic Records
  • ASIN: B000HDR9EU
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 99,816 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  9. Bold Benjamin 4:05£0.89
Listen10. Mrs Marriott 4:07£0.89
Listen11. Jacky Tar 4:25£0.89
Listen12. Mermaid 4:16£0.89
Listen13. Lord Thomas And Fair Eleanor 5:52£0.89
Listen14. My Heart's In New South Wales 5:21£0.89

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After a gap of fourteen years, Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick returned with a remarkable and ageless set of traditional tunes and songs. Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick – the legendary, ground-breaking duo wrote and re-wrote the book on arranging and performing traditional material in an exciting and vibrant way. Their recordings during the 1960s are widely regarded as landmarks of the folk genre. Over the past two decades they occasionally joined together to tour and record new material. Straws In The Wind brought them together after fourteen years for fourteen great performances of great maturity and intensity. Tracks: Death Of Queen Jane / Ship In Distress / Whalecatchers / When I Was A Little Boy / Bride’s March From Unst; True Lover’s Lament; Lord Inchiquin / Royal Oak / Treadmill Song / Unfortunate Tailor / Bold Benjamin / Mrs Marriott / Jacky Tar / Mermaid / Lord Thomas And Fair Eleanor.

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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful
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This is as good a Carthy/Swarb CD as you'll find - including all their classics from the past. Sounding like a pair of 20-something year olds, fired up by English songs and tunes and having a ball, C and S revisit the seminal (I know, a messy-sounding adjective) "Penguin Book of English Folk Songs" for almost all of this collection, with a couple of Swarbtunes.

This is voice/guitar/fiddle traditional music, unadorned, played by two masters of their craft and as near to perfect as you'll get in this field.

I love it ... you can tell.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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Rags Reels and AirsI've been a fan of swarb and carthy both individually and together for very many years. I received this for christmas and approached it with some apprehension. These "old tymes sake" reunions are often a dissappointment, either complacent, smug, trying too hard or simply having lost the plot or the skills. Given how terribly ill Swarb looked the last few times i saw him play was hardly encouraging either.

The apprehensions were entirely misplaced. This is a complete gem, it stands quite happily alongside everything else they have done and is in every way a pleasure to listen to. Betraying the advancing years comes not from Swarb whose playing is as crisp and earthy as ever, but from Carthy, whose fine voice occasionally falters, though the guitar remains a solid accompaniment to the fiddle.

My only complaint is to Amazon (yes, you) who list this as a Carthy record only - Shouldn't Swarbrick's name appear there too chaps? (i searched for it under Swarbrick and couldn't work out why i couldn't find it - correct this and you might sell a few more!)
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