The Carthy Chronicles

4CD Free Reed  FRQCD60, 2001

Questo grande omaggio alla carriera della leggenda vivente del folk inglese (un’ottantina di brani di cui la metà inediti o rari) comprende quattro cd e un libretto di cento pagine. La copertura del repertorio è totale: dalle performance soliste al periodo folk rock, dai duetti con Swarb al pieno sonoro dei Brass Monkey. Un intero cd è dedicato alle classiche Child Ballads, da sempre tra le favorite di Carthy.  (Fausto Meirana)

Tracks Disc 1:

1. Scarborough Fair - 2. Byker Hill - 3. Cold, Haily, Windy Night [Live] - 4. Skewbald [Live] - 5. Creeping Jane [Live] - 6. Old Horse [Live] - 7. Question of Sport [Live] - 8. Lovely Joan [Live] - 9. Maid and the Palmer - 10. Begging Song [Live] - 11. I Was a Young Man - 12. Prince Heathen - 13. Prickle Holly Bush [Live] - 14. Lord Franklin - 15. Lemady/Arise and Pick a Posy - 16. Famous Flower of Serving Men - 17. Glorishears

Tracks Disc 2:

1. New St. George - 2. Carthy's March/The Lemon Tree - 3. I Haven't Told Her, She Hasn't Told Me - 4. My Girl [Live] - 5. Boys of Bedlam - 6. Oh, Had I a Golden Thread - 7. Anc Song (Azicatal) [Live] - 8. Wimoweh [Live] - 9. Young Banker - 10. Postman's Knock - 11. Constant Bill - 12. Lakes of Cold Flynn [Live] - 13. Irish Washerwoman/Ash Plant - 14. Arthur McBride - 15. Royal Forester/Bald-Headed End of the Broom - 16. Nafarroa [Live] - 17. Wren - 18. King - 19. Joy Health Love and Peace - 20. Hunting the Wren [Live] - 21. Hunting the Cutty Wren - 22. Byker Hill

Tracks Disc 3:

1. Nothing Rhymed - 2. Lord of the Dance - 3. Rivers of Babylon (Babalon) - 4. History Lesson - 5. January Man - 6. Ballad of Alfie Hinds [Live] - 7. Humane Turnkey, Pt. 2 - 8. Farewell, Farewell [Alternative Mix] - 9. Dust to Dust - 10. Stitch in Time [Live] - 11. Trimdon Grange - 12. Palaces of Gold - 13. Springhill Mine Disaster - 14. Coal Not Dole [Live] - 15. Perfumes of Arabia [Live] - 16. Such a War Has Never Been - 17. Wife of the Soldier - 18. Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll - 19. Ant and the Grasshopper - 20. Company Policy - 21. On a Monday Morning [Live] - 22. Rave On - 23. Oor Hamlet [Live] - 24. Harry Lime Theme (Third Man Theme)

Tracks Disc 4:

1. Jack Orion - 2. Seven Virgins (Leaves of Life) - 3. Duncan and Brady - 4. Geordie [Live] - 5. Sir Patrick Spens - 6. King Henry - 7. Sovay the Female Highwayman [Live] - 8. Man of Newlyn Town - 9. Bows of London [Live] - 10. Lucy Wan [Live] - 11. Lord Randall - 12. Whale Catchers - 13. Rufford Park Poachers - 14. John Barleycorn [Live][#] - 15. Hard Times of Old England [Live] - 16. Hard Cheese of Old England - 17. Over the Hills and Far Away - 18. Farmer's Servant [Live] - 19. False Knight on the Road [Live] - 20. Elfin Knight