Waterson:Carthy,
A Dark Light

Topic Records TSCD536 (CD, UK, September 2002)

 

Album delizioso, ispirato alla grande tradizione britannica del "penguin Book of English Folk Songs" e finemente cesellato dagli arrangiamenti della famiglia Carthy e di Tim Van Eyken. Registrazione di Oliver Knight con l aprosduzione di Tony Engle e il design di John Haxby.

 

Tracks
The Devil and the Farmer (3.34) - May Morning (5.40) - Death and the Lady (5.07) - The Outlandish Knight (5.03) - Balancy Straw / Seventeen Come Sunday / Whitefriar's Hornpipe (6.32) - The Lofty Tall Ship (4.01) - The Holland Handkerchief (5.37) - The Old Churchyard (3.23) - Crystal Spring (3.56) - Diego's Bold Shore (7.06) - Shepherds Arise (7.04) 

Tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6: Trad. arr. E. Carthy, M. Carthy, T. van Eyken;
Tracks 3, 8, 9, 11: Trad. arr. E. Carthy, M. Carthy, T. van Eyken, N. Waterson;
Track 7: Trad. arr. M. Carthy, N. Waterson;
Track10: Trad. arr. E. Carthy;

Musicians
Norma Waterson, vocals; Eliza Carthy, fiddle, vocals; Martin Carthy, guitar, vocals; Tim van Eyken, melodeon