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All Of A Row - Martin Carthy - Rigs Of The Time - The Best Of Martin Carthy (Cassette)

Good folk music is like me holding my grandchildren and wanting to know more about my great, great, great uncle — I've got a picture of him — Tom Carthy from Ballybunion, County Kerry. I see his fingers on the uilleann pipes, and I see my father's hands and my grandfather's hands. The continuity of folk music is similar, because it is also our continuity.

Carthy illustrates his point with the exactitude of the cultural genealogist he is: "There's a great storyteller called Hugh Lupton, who cited the words of a man called Duncan Williamson, who said that when he told a story, he felt behind him a long line of all the people who had told that story before.

What we are doing singing folk songs is full of ghosts, and that is what is exciting". The term "nostalgia" is pointless in a conversation with Martin Carthy; the past is a propulsion, a well of riches, and folk songs are the history of its common people, the expressions of their struggles, tribulations and superstitions, their guile, humour, love, lust and violence — and their "subversion", often in its subtlest form.

Carthy reflects: "The older I have got, the more the songs have become three-dimensional. They're not words set to pretty tunes. You are being told something about people.

Things that are wicked, naughty, true, funny. About what human beings do to each other, and it never changes. Our foreman looks back and he sees 'em behind And he gives a loud hallo, bring it all well behind, Bring it all well behind, He gives a loud hallo bring it all well behind. Oh then says our foreman behind and before, We will have a fresh wet and a half a pint more.

So me jolly boys to the end we will go, To the end we will go till it's all of a row, Till it's all of a row, To the end we will go till it's all of a row.

When the night it comes on to the farm we will steer To partake a good supper and to drink a strong beer; In wishing the farmer such blessings in life As in drinking a health unto him and his wife, Unto him and his wife, As in drinking a health unto him and his wife. Our wheat's all in, oats and barley abound, Here's success to the farmer who ploughs through the ground.

As to this wheat stubble it to turnips we'll sow And so we'll continue till it's all of a row, Till it's all of a row, And so we'll continue till it's all of a row. Martin Carthy Lyrics provided by SongLyrics. The Devil and the Feathery Wife 5. Cheeeek that out dude. Lead RIFFs:.

Bad selection. Save Cancel. Really delete this comment? He picked up his father's old guitar for the first time after hearing " Rock Island Line " by Lonnie Donegan.

He has cited his first major folk music influences as Big Bill Broonzy and the syncopated guitar style of Elizabeth Cotten. Carthy performed his first professional engagement at the age of 16 at The Loft, a coffee bar in Primrose Gardens. He joined Redd Sullivan's Thameside Four in He is a solo performer of traditional songs in a very distinctive style, accompanying himself on his Martin acoustic guitar; his style is marked by the use of alternative tunings notably CGCDGA , and a strongly percussive picking style that emphasises the melody.

Carthy's debut solo album, Martin Carthy , was released in , and also featured Dave Swarbrick playing fiddle on some tracks, although he was not mentioned in the album's sleeve notes.

The first of these had been when both were members of the Albion Band with Ashley Hutchings. John and Martin along with future Brass Monkey-person Martin Brinsford then appeared together on the former's Plain Capers LP, a collection of Cotswold morris tunes and in , the two principals had toured and recorded as part of Steeleye Span's farewell tour.

Brass Monkey called it a day in as the individual demands of its members became too great and a sufficient number of venues able to support a large band did not materialise. His move to Topic's new subsidiary Special Delivery Records also marked a return to his long association with Dave Swarbrick. The two of them renewed their touring partnership and the recorded results were the albums Life and Limb , made in , and, their latest, Skin and Bone.

He was one of the first performers in the renewed interest in British folk music in the s. He is seen as one of the most important people in English folk music. Martin Carthy was born in Hatfield on May 21 , He grew up in Hampstead , North London. After he left school he had a number of jobs.

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