Martin Carthy
Strangers In The Room: A Journey Through The British Folk Rock Scene 1967-73
British Folk Rock 1967-1973 – the tip of the iceberg but an interesting and varied collection from the Grapefruit genre anthology series.
And that’s despite the confession of folk brigand Eliza Carthy (Louder Than Words festival interview, Manchester, 2018) that she can’t stand Folk Rock and has never knowingly listened to a Fairport Convention album.
She’ll not be interested then to hear how sixty tracks gather together the familiar with the less so. Songs that you’ll know from the folk tradition and plenty of others which again, might be less so. If there’s anyone who could lay a claim to knowing all the bands and all the songs then you perhaps deserve a place at the head of the table if not the Eggheads team. Steeleye Span, Ralph McTell
Remembering Sandy Denny
Dave Swarbrick, John Renbourn, Gerry Conway, Martin Carthy and Dave Mattacks share remembrances of the late Sandy Denny.
Eliza Carthy in “Time Unwrapped”
Folk singer-songwriter Eliza Carthy performs with her father Martin Carthy.
Eliza has been twice-nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and a multiple-award winner at the BBC Radio Two Folk awards.