Eliza Carthy - Anglicana
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Artist: Eliza CarthyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2002-10-28
Music Label: Topic Records
Soundtracks:
- Worcester City
- Just As The Tide Was Flowing
- Limbo
- Little Gypsy Girl
- No Man's Jig + Hanoverian Dance + Three Jolly Sheepskins
- Pretty Ploughboy
- Bold Privateer
- Dr Mcmbe
- In London So Fair
- Willow Tree
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Free Music Review: Traditional English folk songs in a contemporary setting
Hit: 5 Stars
Eliza Carthy, daughter of folk singers Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy, emerged in the late nineties as Britain's leading female folk singer. Eliza has always sought to bring a contemporary edge to her music, perhaps hoping in the process to get more people to take an interest in Britain's folk-song heritage. It is sometimes said that a great song will survive any interpretation, but adapting traditional songs written in an entirely different era when there was little or no backing music to a contemporary setting is no easy task. Nevertheless, Eliza has come up with an interesting and entertaining album that preserves the essence of each song. Listening to this album, nobody can be in any doubt that this is, at its heart, traditional folk music, even if it is updated slightly to appeal to listeners in the new millennium.
Eliza found many of the songs here on a twenty-volume series titled Voice of the people (released on Topic records, like this album). Folk music fans will find much of interest in that series, if they can afford it. To a wider audience, the best-known song here may be Just as the tide was flowing -10,000 Maniacs are among others to have recorded the song - but Eliza sings it her way and it's superb as all the songs here are. Among my other favorites here are Worcester City, Little gypsy girl, Bold privateer and Willow tree.
If you have any interest in traditional folk music, you should give this album a listen.
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