Tag Archives: English folk music

Martin Carthy’s The Carthy Chronicles and Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick’s Both Ears and The Tail

Posted on 15th June 2001 by David Kidney

“He’s a storyteller — he knows how to put a story across and he believes 100% in what he does.” Norma Waterson Martin Carthy is a legend in English folk music. As a solo performer, in duets with Swarbrick and … Continue reading →

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Roam’s Ragged In the Rain

Posted on 9th January 2001 by Gary Whitehouse

Judith Gennett wrote this review. “In such an ugly time the true protest is beauty.” –Phil Ochs “Roam is an acoustic folk band from Yorkshire.” So begins my review of Roam’s first album Count the Stars. Luckily, this third album … Continue reading →

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Waterson:Carthy’s Broken Ground

Posted on 15th June 2000 by Richard Condon

The Waterson:Carthy extended family is often described as the “First Family of English folk music,” sometimes even as the “Royal Family.” Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson’s marriage in 1972, the year that Martin became a member of the reformed Watersons, … Continue reading →

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Jennifer and Hazel Wrigley’s Mither o’ the Sea

Posted on 28th September 1999 by Richard Condon

I have been interested in the traditional music of the British Isles for more than 35 years and have grown older listening to the work of musicians who were already well known to the folk music loving minority when I … Continue reading →

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Roy Harris’s Live at the Lion

Posted on 14th September 1999 by Richard Condon

We live in an era when most of the recordings that any of us buy are put out by multinational megabucks corporations, for which the recording business is only one of a number of activities and has to earn its … Continue reading →

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