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Tag Archives: English folk music
Waterson:Carthy’s A Dark Light
This review was contributed by Judith Gennett. Norma Waterson and her spouse Martin Carthy have extensive musical histories extending into the dim murky past of the English folk revival. One’s head could explode just thinking of it all: the a … Continue reading
Broceliande’s Sir Christèmas
Well, it’s getting near that time of year again, so it is inevitable that I should have a seasonal album to review. This is the first in a set of four volumes of songs of the season from Broceliande, but … Continue reading
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Tagged English folk music, Winter Holiday music
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Roam’s Count the Stars
Judith Gennett wrote this review. Roam is an acoustic folk band from Yorkshire. They’ve released a later album called Songs of J.R.R. Tolkien, having on occasion performed dressed as elves and dwarves. Only one Tolkien song appears on Count the … Continue reading
Martin Carthy’s The Carthy Chronicles and Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick’s Both Ears and The Tail
“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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Tagged English folk music, English folk rock
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Roam’s Ragged In the Rain
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
Waterson:Carthy’s Broken Ground
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
Jennifer and Hazel Wrigley’s Mither o’ the Sea
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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Tagged English folk music, Nordic music
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Roy Harris’s Live at the Lion
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