Waterson:Carthy

English singers of traditional and contemporary songs.

(Martin Carthy has recorded with The Watersons, Steeleye Span, the Albion Band, Brass Monkey, Blue Murder and solo) (Norma Waterson has also recorded with The Watersons, Blue Murder and solo) (Eliza Carthy has recorded with Blue Murder and solo) (Tim van Eyken has recorded solo and with Robert Habron)

Albums.

Title.	year.	Label.	Number.
Waterson:Carthy	1995	Topic	TSCD 475
Common Tongue	1995	Topic	TSCD 488
Broken Ground	1999	Topic	TSCD 509
A Dark Light	2003	Topic	TSCD 536
Fishes and Fine Yellow Sand	2004	Topic	TSCD 542
Holy Heathen and the Old Green Man (*)	2006	Topic	TSCD 562

(* with Devil's Interval)

Compilations.

Title.	year.	Label.	No.
The Definitive Collection	2005	Highpoint	HPO 6012

Best albums(*).

Title.	year.
Waterson:Carthy	1995
Holy Heathen and the Old Green Man	2006

(*)Based on critical opinion.

Popular downloads.

Title.
When First I Came to Caledonia
Midnight on the Water
Jack Frost
Ye Marriners All
The Light Dragoon
New Year Carol - Residue
May Song

Anthology - Rubber Folk: a Folk Tribute to the Beatles.

Album title.	year	Label.	Number.
Rubber Folk: a Folk Tribute to the Beatles (*)	2006	Keltia Musique-	KMCD63

(* One track only - "Norwegian Wood")

Anthology - Waterson:Carthy, Barry Dransfield, A.L. Lloyd, Anne Briggs, Shirley Collins, Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention, Incredible String Band, Magna Carta, Lindisfarne, Sandy Denny, Oak, Richard Thompson et al.

Title.	year.	Label.	number.
Anthology of English Folk (5 CDs)	2007?	Deja Vu

Anthology - Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band, Cherish the Ladies, Boys of the Lough, Waterson:Carthy, Dordan, Druidstoe, Nowell Sing We Clear et al.

Title.	year.	Label.	number.
Comfort and Joy: A Christmas Celtic Sojourn	2003	Rounder	?

Anthology - Ewan MacColl, Martin Carthy, June Tabor, The Albion Band, Brass Monkey, Martin Simpson, Waterson:Carthy et al.

Title.	year.	Label.	number.
Simply Folk (4 CDs)	2007	Simply	SIMPLYCD039

DVDs.

Title	year.	Label.
In Search of English Folk Music	2008

Album tracks.

The Definitive Collection Running time 64 minutes 45 seconds. Released 2005. Recorded on various dates 1995 - 2004.Eliza Carthy (vocals, fiddle, viola), Martin Carthy (vocals, guitar), Norma Waterson (vocals), Saul Rose (melodeon on 4,5 and 7)(vocals on 12) , Tim van Eyken (melodeon, vocals)(on 8,9,11 and 13), Ben Ivitsky (low whistle).

Title.	Author.	Album
1. Bold Doherty	Traditional	Waterson:Carthy
2. Stars in My Crown	Traditional	Blue Murder
3. Ye Marriners All	Traditional	Waterson:Carthy
4. Rowling Hornpipe/ Our Cat Has Kittened/ Bleaton Gardens/ Sportsman's Hornpipe	Traditional	Broken Ground
5. The Forsaken Mermaid	Traditional	Broken Ground
6. Hares In The Old Plantation	Traditional	Common Tongue
7. The Bay of Biscay	Traditional	Broken Ground
8. Balancy Straw/ Seventeen Come Sunday/ Whitefriars Hornpipe	Traditional	A Dark Light
9. Captain Kidd	Traditional	Fishes and Fine Yellow Sand
10. Flash Company	Traditional	Common Tongue
11. The Devil and the Farmer	Traditional	A Dark Light
12. Jacob's Well	Traditional	(*)
13. Goodbye Fare You Well	Traditional	Fishes and Fine Yellow Sand

(* live recording from Port Fairy Folk Festival, Australia, March 1999)

Holy Heathens and the Old Green Man Running time 59 minutes 47 seconds. Released 2006. Recorded 2006. Norma Waterson (vocals, triangle), Eliza Carthy (vocals, fiddle, mandolin), Martin Carthy (vocals, guitar), Tim van Eyken (vocals, melodeons). Also "The Devil's Interval" (Jim Causley (vocals), Emily Portman (vocals), Lauren McCormick (vocals). Also Martin Brinsford (percussion), Alice Kinloch (trombone, tuba), Tom Allan (trumpets), Oliver Knight (cello)

Title.	Author.	Timing
1. New Year Carol - Residue	Traditional	2:57
2. Sugar Wassail	Traditional	2:12
3. St George	John Kirkpatrick	2:50
4. May Song	Traditional	2:44
5. Christ Made a Trance	Traditional	2:32
6. When Jesus Wept The Falling Tear	W Billings	2:24
7. Cherry Tree Carol	Traditional	4:20
8. Reaphook and Sickle	Traditional	2:48
9. Jack Frost	Mike Waterson	4:33
10. While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks	Traditional	5:17
11. On Christmas Day It Happened So	Traditional	2:43
12. Time to Remembered the Poor	M Lolley (?)	4:40
13. Jacobstowe Wassail	Traditional	2:50
14. Awake Awake	Traditional	4:06
15. Diadem	Traditional	3:28
16. Jolly Old Hawk	Traditional	2:51
17. Gloryland (Baptist hymn)	Sankey	3:40

Websites

www.watersoncarthy.com (link dead)

www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/watersons/

Last updated on 12/11/2010