Martin Carthy Martin Carthy SKU: TTSLP005 Barcode: 714822940054 21.00 £21.00 Genre: Folk Label: Topic Records Released Date: 23rd February 2024 Buying Format: 1LP Add to basket Reserve Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info This vinyl re-pressing is released to commemorate Topic’s 85th anniversary in 2024. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Black vinyl, standard weigh with black, polylined inner sleeves. Re-pressing of Martin Carthy’s debut album, originally released on Fontana in 1965 and re-issued by Topic in 1977. Last vinyl re-press was on Topic for RSD in 2015. This version released to commemorate Topic’s 85th anniversary in 2024. In the early 1960s, the approach Martin Carthy took to folk music was nothing short of revolutionary, albeit a relatively quiet revolution befitting of his humble nature. You wouldn’t find Carthy’s music clambering up the singles charts; his was not a face adorning the teen magazines.\r\nInstead, his influence was felt at a grass-roots level. He plied his trade in the folk clubs, which is where the likes of Bob Dylan and Paul Simon sought him out, enamoured of his traditional repertoire and keen to learn songs like ‘Scarborough Fair’ and ‘Lord Franklin’ directly from him before adapting them for their own purposes. His debut eponymous album, re-released here, on vinyl by Topic Records as part of their ongoing Topic Treasures series, is a snapshot of the work he was doing at the time. Originally finding its way into the world in 1965, courtesy of Fontana Records, Martin Carthy pulled together 14 songs from his burgeoning repertoire. Produced by Terry at the Philips Recording Studios in Marble Arch, the album was a must-learn checklist for budding guitarists and folk club\r\norgas, and, to this day, remains an essential listen for anyone attempting to find their way into traditional English folk music. Most people turn up for ‘Scarborough Fair’, very few leave without getting hooked on ‘High Germany’, ‘Sovay’ and ‘Ye Mariners All’. The album also introduces Carthy’s earliest collaborations with Dave Swarbrick, an enduring and much-copied partnership that lasted, off and on, until Swarbs death in 2016, and became a blueprint for how guitar and fiddle duos ought to sound. While Carthy had been building up his solo repertoire over the previous five or six years, several of the duo arrangements on this album (‘Lovely Joan’, ‘A Begging I Will Go’, ‘Broomfield Hill’) were thrown together in the studio, adding a fizz and freshness to the recordings. This became the pair’s standard way of working. “We used to rehearse on stage, in front of the audience,” he explains today. In the years since, Martin Carthy has become the veteran of over 40 studio albums and a veritable beacon for musicians and music lovers seeking “the real stuff.” Pressed to name his favourite, he needs no time to think it over. “I always stand by the first album,” he says of his 1965 debut. “I love it. There are some things on it I think I couldn’t have done better. There was a clarity of purpose.” And, with this re-release, we can be sure that newcomers get to hear that sense of purpose in the best possible quality, as clearly as Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and a generation of folk lovers did six decades ago. Artist Martin Carthy Genre Folk Label Topic Records Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings High Germany The Trees They Do Grow High Sovay Ye Mariners All The Queen Of Hearts Broomfield Hill Springfield Mine Disaster Scarborough Fair Lovely Joan The Barley And The Rye The Wind That Shakes The Barley The Two Magicians The Handsome Cabin Boy And A Begging I Will Go Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Martin Carthy and more from Folk View Product Quick View Martin Carthy Martin Carthy Folk | Topic Records | 1LP Released 24th April 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Martin Carthy Martin Carthy £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Topic Records SKU: 12T2207 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 24th April 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Richard Thompson Henry The Human Fly Folk | Proper | 180g, 1LP Released 28th April 2023 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Richard Thompson Henry The Human Fly £25.00 Genre: Folk Label: Proper SKU: UMCLP030 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 28th April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Spencer Cullum Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection Folk | Full Time Hobby | 1LP Released 10th June 2022 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Spencer Cullum Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection £23.00 Genre: Folk Label: Full Time Hobby SKU: FTH420LPA Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th June 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Lily and Maria Lily and Maria Folk | Columbia | 1LP Released 28th April 2020 £12.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Lily and Maria Lily and Maria £12.00 Genre: Folk Label: Columbia SKU: nn201267 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th April 2020 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Yo-Yo Ma and Silk Road Ensemble Sing Me Home Folk | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 21st April 2023 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Yo-Yo Ma and Silk Road Ensemble Sing Me Home £36.00 Genre: Folk Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVCL025 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 21st April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Unthanks Mount The Air Folk | RabbleRouser Music | 2LP Released 3rd March 2015 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Unthanks Mount The Air £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: RabbleRouser Music SKU: RRM013LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 3rd March 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo Dear River Folk | Linn Records | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 2nd October 2013 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo Dear River £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Linn Records SKU: AKH605 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 2nd October 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Paul's picks View Product Quick View Native Harrow Old Kind Of Magic Folk | Loose Music | 1LP Released 28th October 2022 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Native Harrow Old Kind Of Magic £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Loose Music SKU: VJLP275X Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th October 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Joan Baez In Concert Folk | Vinyl Passion | 180g, 1LP Released 21st November 2014 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joan Baez In Concert £15.00 Genre: Folk Label: Vinyl Passion SKU: VP80046 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 21st November 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band Big Machine Folk | Vinyl 180 | 180g, 2LP Released 3rd February 2017 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band Big Machine £25.00 Genre: Folk Label: Vinyl 180 SKU: VIN180LP119 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 3rd February 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Leyla McCalla Sun Without The Heat Folk | Anti | 1LP Released 12th April 2024 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Leyla McCalla Sun Without The Heat £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Anti SKU: 280341 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th April 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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