Along The Road Forever - Live At The Bbc - Martin Carthy - Audio CD (Arrives in 20 days)

THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE MARTIN CARTHY COLLECTION EVER ASSEMBLED – 20 CD SET WITH LIVE & SESSION PERFORMANCES RECORDED FOR THE BBC OVER A 57 YEAR PERIOD.

INCLUDES 80-PAGE HARDBACK BOOK WITH AN ESSAY BY CELEBRATED BIOGRAPHER CLINTON HEYLIN, COVERING MARTIN'S WHOLE LIFE IN MUSIC.

WITH UNSEEN PHOTOS, MANY FROM MARTIN'S PERSONAL ARCHIVE, SEPARATE SESSION NOTES BY RENOWNED CARTHY CHRONICLER KEVIN BOYD & A PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED BY MARTIN.

Though he eschews such terms himself, few would deny that Martin Carthy MBE is the godfather of English folk – a singer, tradition bearer and guitar stylist of colossal quality and influence with 60 years of celebrated recorded work as a solo artist, as a duettist with Dave Swarbrick and with his daughter Eliza Carthy, and as a member of ground-breaking ensembles Steeleye Span, the Albion Country Band, Brass Monkey, the Watersons, Waterson: Carthy & Wood, Wilson, Carthy.

All of these collaborations and more are represented in this stunning collection from Martin’s extraordinarily extensive career of interactions with the British Broadcasting Corporation – as a studio session guest and concert performer over a span of 1965–2022, across BBC Radios 1, 2, 3 & 4 and BBC television, with early performances from 1960s regional channel ABC TV as a bonus. What survives of Martin’s BBC output is perhaps a fraction of what once aired over the course of nearly 56 years of moments on the usually ephemeral medium of broadcasting, yet its range and heft is remarkable – an alternative career history and testament to a truly singular artistry: 22½ hours, 328 tracks (two thirds from a master source) of which there are 237 distinct items of repertoire.

Disc 1: Studio sessions 1973–77 Sounds of the 70s, 1973 (Albion Country Band), John Peel, 1974, 1976, 1977 (all Martin solo)

Disc 2: Onstage 1973–7 Folkweave, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977 – live at St Albans Folk Club, Loughborough Festival and Cambridge Folk Festival (all Martin solo)

Disc 3: Onstage 1977–78 Folk ’78 and Folkweave – live at Sidmouth Folk Festival 1978 and 1979 (all Martin solo)

Disc 4: Onstage 1979–1986 Sidmouth Folk Festival 1979 (Martin solo), Cambridge Folk Festival 1982 (Brass Monkey), Folk on 2 concert 1983 (Brass Monkey)

Disc 5: Onstage 1981–83 Stagfolk, Godalming 1981, Fylde Folk Festival 1982, Pontardawe Folk Festival 1983 (all Martin solo)

Disc 6: Studio sessions 1983–88 John Peel 1983 (Martin solo), Andy Kershaw 1987 (Martin solo), Andy Kershaw 1988 (The Watersons), Andy Kershaw 1988 (Martin solo), Folk on 2 1987 (Martin & Chris Wood)

Disc 7: Onstage 1984–1990 Whitby Festival 1985 (Martin solo), BBC Radio Sussex 1984 (Martin solo), Salisbury Arts Centre 1990 (Martin & Dave Swarbrick)

Disc 8: Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick: Studio sessions & onstage 1988–97 Folk on 2 1988, 1989, 1997, Andy Kershaw 1990, Belfast Festival c. 1988

Disc 9: Martin & Eliza Carthy: Glastonbury Festival, 1995

Disc 10: Studio sessions 1995–97 Andy Kershaw 1995 (Waterson:Carthy), Folk on 2 1997 (Martin solo – alt takes), Folk on 2 1997 (Martin & Dave Swarbrick – alt takes)

Disc 11: Studio sessions 1997–2004 Folk on 2 1997, Andy Kershaw 2004 (all Martin solo)

Disc 12: Onstage 1990–99 Sidmouth Folk Festival 1990 (The Watersons), Sidmouth Folk Festival 1992 (Martin solo), Rare Music Club, Bristol 1997 (Wood, Wilson, Carthy), Cambridge Folk Festival 1999 (Martin solo)

Disc 13: Onstage 1999 Sidmouth Folk Festival 1999 (part 1) (Martin solo)

Disc 14: Onstage 1999 / 1986 Sidmouth Folk Festival 1999 (part 2) (Martin solo), Butlin’s, Bognor Regis 1986 (Brass Monkey) Disc 15: Martin Carthy with Norma Waterson: 60th Birthday Concert, 2001 Alhambra Theatre, Bradford

Disc 16: Onstage 2005–14 BBC Folk Awards 2005 (Martin with Martin Simpson & Paul Sartin), The Barbican 2005 (Martin solo), The Barbican 2006 (Martin solo), The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan – A Folk Tribute 2011 (Martin solo), Front Row 2011 (Martin & Eliza Carthy), In Tune 2012 (Martin with the Aurora Orchestra), Cambridge Folk Festival 2013 (Martin & Dave Swarbrick), BBC Folk Awards 2014 (Martin & Eliza Carthy)

Disc 17: Studio Sessions 2014–22 Jools Holland 2011 (Martin & Jools Holland Ensemble), World on 3 2014 (Martin & Eliza Carthy), Bob Fisher, BBC Radio Tees 2017 (Martin solo), In Tune 2020 (Martin & John Kirkpatrick), In Tune 2020 (Martin & Eliza Carthy), Music Planet 2022 (Martin & Eliza Carthy)

Disc 18: 1963–68 Songs from Hullaballoo (ABC TV 1963) (Martin with Bob Davenport, Rory McEwen, Lisa Turner), Songs from Hallelujah (ABC TV, 1966) (Martin with the Johnny Scott Trio), London Folk Song Cellar 1966 (Martin solo; Martin & Dave Swarbrick; Martin & Rory McEwen; Martin & Isla Cameron), Once More with Felix 1967 (Martin & Dave Swarbrick), Degrees of Folk 1968 (Martin & Dave Swarbrick)

Disc 19: Steeleye Span: 1970–71 Top Gear 1970, John Peel Sunday Concert 1971, Sounds of the 70s 1970, 1971

Disc 20: Bonus: off-air 1966–73 Hallelujah (ABC TV) 1966 (Martin solo), Wonderful Copenhagen 1967 (Martin & Dave Swarbrick), My Kind of Folk 1968 (Martin & Dave Swarbrick), Folk on Friday 1971 (Martin solo), John Peel 1972 (Martin solo), unidentified TV show 1972 (Martin & Dave Swarbrick), John Peel 1973 (Martin solo)

The troubadour, the folk-rocker, the guitar hero, the acapella master, the champion of songs from the people, the voice of history, the wit and raconteur, Martin Carthy seemingly walked the road forever, never strayed far from the folk clubs and never sold out. This limited edition set – lovingly curated by Colin Harper – includes a lavishly illustrated 80-page hardback book with essays by Clinton Heylin & Kevin Boyd, a 1971 Keith Morris photograph signed by Martin & 20 discs of audio magic mastered by Pete Reynolds. With your hosts John Peel, Suzy Klein, Andy Kershaw, Jim Lloyd & further denizens of Broadcasting House, here is Martin Carthy providing, time after time, plentiful evidence for those who would – despite his protestations – call him a legend.

Tracklist

Disc 1

1. Hanged I Shall Be
2. New St George
3. I`Ll Go and List For a Sailor
4. Harvest Home/the Gas Almost Works
5. Skewbald
6. Geordie
7. Prince Heathen
8. Lucy Wan
9. Willie`S Lady
10. Unfortunate Tailor
11. King Knapperty
12. Searching For Lambs
13. Willie`S Lady
14. Bonnets So Blue
15. William Taylor
16. Three Jolly Sneaksmen
17. Brown Adam

Disc 10

1. Mick Dam
2. Seventeen Come Sunday
3. The Swallow
4. Polly Bishop`S Slip Jig
5. Jacob`S Well
6. Creeping Jane (Take 1)
7. The Wife of Usher`S Well (Takes 3 and 4)
8. Princess Royal (Take 4)
9. I Sowed Some Seeds (Takes 2 and 3)
10. Sovay (Take 2)
11. Lord Inchiquin / Bride`S March From Unst / True Lovers` Lament
12. Carthy`S March (Take 1)
13. Interview With Jim Lloyd

Disc 11

1. Creeping Jane (Take 4)
2. Rufford Park Poachers
3. Georgie
4. The Wife of Usher`S Well
5. Princess Royal (Take 5)
6. I Sowed Some Seeds (Composite Takes 2 & 3)
7. Jacky Tarr + DJ Intro
8. Martin Carthy Interview 1
9. The Famous Flower of Serving Men + DJ Outro
10. The Foggy Dew
11. Martin Carthy Interview 2
12. Royal Lament

Disc 12

1. Band of Lace
2. Dido Bendigo
3. Collier Laddie
4. Lord Rothchild
5. The Prickle Holly Bush + Intro
6. The Bedmaking
7. King Henry
8. DJ Intro & Carthy Interview
9. The Trees They Grow So High
10. Two Sisters
11. Albion
12. The Gardener
13. Dominion of the Sword
14. Young Collins
15. Devil and the Feathery Wife

Disc 13

1. I Sowed Some Seeds
2. Clyde`S Water
3. The Royal Lament
4. The Bedmaking
5. Rufford Park Poachers
6. Creeping Jane
7. Princess Royal / Old Tom of Oxford
8. The Tailor`S Britches
9. Hong Kong Blues
10. Three Jolly Sneaksmen

Disc 14

1. Sir Patrick Spens
2. Oor Hamlet
3. Famous Flower of Serving Men
4. The Devil and the Feathery Wife
5. Georgie
6. The Rambling Comber
7. Waterman`S Hornpipe
8. The Handweaver and the Factory Maid
9. Da Floo`Er O` Taft / the Lass O` Patie`S Mill
10. The Miller`S Three Sons
11. The Foxhunt

Disc 15

1. Bold Doherty
2. Sir Patrick Spens
3. Golden Grove
4. Bill Norrie
5. Hard Times of Old England
6. When First I Came To Caledonia
7. Bright Shiny Morning
8. Jim Jones In Botany Bay
9. Swaggering Boney
10. Georgie
11. T Stands For Thomas
12. Bay of Biscay
13. Midnight On the Water

Disc 16

1. Bonny Woodhall
2. Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
3. Scarborough Fair
4. The 18th of June
5. Champion At Keeping `Em Rolling
6. Bob Dylan`S Dream + DJ Intro
7. Farewell Lovely Nancy
8. Sir Patrick Spens
9. Interview
10. Limbo
11. Princess Royal + DJ Outro
12. Scarborough Fair
13. The Death of Queen Jane
14. The Deserter
15. The Royal Oak
16. When I Was a Little Boy
17. Died For Love

Disc 17

1. Nothing Rhymed
2. Queen Caraboo
3. Waking Dreams
4. Happiness
5. Monkey Hair
6. Died For Love
7. The Whale Catchers
8. High Germany
9. Flame of Fire
10. The Doffing Mistress
11. Waterman`S Hornpipe
12. The Rambling Comber
13. Interview
14. John Barleycorn
15. Blackwell Merry Night

Disc 18

1. Jug of Punch
2. Duncan and Brady
3. Lowlands
4. My Girl
5. The Dreadnought
6. The Leaving of Liverpool
7. The Queen of Hearts
8. Poor Howard
9. Row Bullies Row
10. Sweet Nightingale
11. Young Man Cut Down In His Prime
12. Wayfaring Stranger
13. Teach Me My God and King
14. Like the Snow
15. John Barleycorn
16. Rivers of Babylon
17. The Marquess of Tullibardine & Prog Intro
18. The Whistling Thief
19. Scarborough Fair
20. A-Begging I Will Go
21. The Trees They Do Grow High
22. The Bonny Earl of Moray
23. Marrowbones
24. So We`Ll Go No More A-Roving
25. Old Maid`S Song
26. Bobby Shaftoe
27. All Around My Hat
28. The Bonny Miner Lad
29. Johnny, I Hardly Knew You
30. The Marquess of Tullibardine
31. Byker Hill
32. Early Morning Rain
33. Sovay

Disc 19

1. I Was a Young Man
2. The Lark In the Morning
3. Rave On
4. The Blacksmith
5. Female Drummer
6. False Knight On the Road
7. The Lark In the Morning
8. Rave On
9. Three Reels: Dowd`S Favourite / Ten Pound Float / Musical Priest
10. Captain Coulson
11. Handsome Polly-O
12. Bring `Em Down / Haul On the Bowline
13. Four Nights Drunk
14. When I Was On Horseback
15. Female Drummer
16. General Taylor + Intro
17. Four Reels: College Grove / Silver Spear / Ballymurphy Rake / Maid Behind the Bar
18. Farther Along
19. Bold Poachers

Disc 2

1. Three Jolly Sneaksmen
2. Skewbald
3. The Rainbow
4. Geordie
5. Brigg Fair
6. Creeping Jane
7. Johnny Sands
8. All of a Row
9. John Barleycorn
10. Three Jolly Sneaksmen
11. The Seven Virgins
12. The Bedmaking + DJ Intro
13. The Worcestershire Wedding
14. Bruton Town
15. Lumps of Plumb Pudding / Three Around Three
16. Johnny Sands
17. January Man + Toni Arthur Outro

Disc 20

1. The Ballad of Jack Musgrave
2. Newlyn Town Hall
3. Sovay
4. Three Irish Folk Dances
5. Streets of Forbes
6. The Bonny Black Hare
7. Two Butchers
8. John Barleycorn
9. Streets of Forbes
10. Snug In the Blanket
11. Arthur McBride and the Sergeant
12. Byker Hill
13. Dill Pickles Rag
14. John Blunt
15. Brigg Fair
16. Interview
17. The January Man
18. Cold, Haily, Windy Night
19. False Lover Won Back
20. King Henry
21. Trimdon Grange
22. Flowers of Edinburgh
23. King of the Fairies

Disc 3

1. A May Day Song
2. Lord Randall
3. Bonnets So Blue
4. Johnny Sands
5. Willie`S Lady
6. The January Man
7. Three Around Three
8. The Crafty Maid`S Policy (Sweet Joan)
9. The False Lover Won Back
10. The Gallant Poacher
11. Locks and Bolts
12. All of a Row + Intro
13. The Rainbow
14. Geordie
15. The Siege of Delhi

Disc 4

1. Maid On the Shore
2. Corduroy Trousers
3. Bonny Lass of Anglesey
4. Lemaidie
5. John Barleycorn
6. Pigeon On the Gate
7. Primrose Lass
8. Jolly Tinker
9. Sovay
10. Bad News
11. Old Grenadier
12. Maid and the Palmer
13. May Song
14. The Rambling Comber
15. Trowie Burn
16. Seventeen Come Sunday

Disc 5

1. Jim Lloyd Intro
2. The Bedmaking
3. Johnny Sands
4. Lord Byron / the Battle of the Somme
5. Lovely Joan
6. All of a Row
7. Sheep Crook & Black Dog
8. The Baccapipes Jig / Old Tom of Oxford
9. Willie`S Lady
10. A Stitch In Time
11. La Cardeuse
12. Reynard the Fox
13. The Siege of Delhi
14. Corduroy Trousers
15. Long John
16. Swaggering Boney / Glorishears
17. Salisbury Plain
18. Reynard the Fox

Disc 6

1. The Devil & the Feathery Wife
2. Tarry Trousers
3. Lady Dysle
4. I Sowed Some Seeds
5. Long John
6. When I Was Young
7. Rufford Park Poachers
8. Hommage a Roche Proulx
9. Company Policy
10. The Derby Ram
11. Adieu, Adieu
12. The Poacher`S Fate
13. La Cardeuse
14. Aux Anciens Parapets
15. The Dominion of the Sword
16. The Famous Flower of Serving Men
17. I Sowed Some Seeds + DJ Intro
18. Mrs Foster`S Fudge
19. Hard Times of Old England + DJ Intro
20. The Indian Queen

Disc 7

1. The Green Wedding
2. Cold Haily Windy Night
3. Lowlands of Holland
4. Funeral Party
5. Willie`S Lady
6. Oor Hamlet
7. Thorneymoor Woods
8. The White Hare
9. Baccapipes Jig / Old Tom of Oxford
10. Brown Adam
11. The Trip We Took Over the Mountains
12. Sovay
13. Oh Dear Oh
14. Bows of London
15. Dominion of the Sword

Disc 8

1. Carthy`S March
2. Arthur McBride and the Sergeant
3. All In Green
4. Porcupine Rag
5. A-Begging I Will Go
6. The Broomfield Hill
7. Porcupine Rag
8. A-Begging I Will Go
9. Carthy`S March (Fades Into News)
10. Arthur McBride and the Sergeant
11. Carthy`S March / the Lemon Tree
12. Oh Dear Oh
13. A Question of Sport
14. Sovay
15. Mrs Bermingham
16. Sovay (Take 3)
17. Lord Inchiquin (Take 3)
18. The Brown Girl
19. Such a War Has Never Been
20. Carthy`S March / the Lemon Tree
21. Byker Hill

Disc 9

1. I Sowed Some Seeds
2. The New-Mown Hay
3. A Stitch In Time
4. Bill Norrie
5. La Cardeuse
6. The Tailor`S Britches
7. Georgie
8. Company Policy
9. Reel
10. Jack Tarr
11. Long John

Label: Madfish | Origin: Holland