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 Joshua Hedley Mr. Jukebox Folk | Third Man Records | 1LP Released 20th April 2018 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joshua Hedley Mr. Jukebox £18.00 Genre: Folk Label: Third Man Records SKU: 0813547025593 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th April 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fionn Regan The Meetings Of The Waters Folk | Abbey Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 21st July 2017 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fionn Regan The Meetings Of The Waters £18.00 Genre: Folk Label: Abbey Records SKU: ABBEYLP171B Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 21st July 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Stan Rogers Between The Breaks…Live Folk | Borealis | 1LP Released 3rd August 2018 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Stan Rogers Between The Breaks…Live £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Borealis SKU: FCM002 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 3rd August 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View First Aid Kit Who By Fire Folk | Columbia | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 26th March 2021 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders First Aid Kit Who By Fire £25.00 Genre: Folk Label: Columbia SKU: 19439822281 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 26th March 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Dave Pegg The Cocktail Cowboy Goes It Alone Folk | Woodworm | 1LP Released 16th July 2013 £8.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Dave Pegg The Cocktail Cowboy Goes It Alone £8.00 Genre: Folk Label: Woodworm SKU: NN57811 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th July 2013 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Hello, Blue Roses The Portrait Is Finished And… Folk | Locust | 180g, 1LP Released 28th June 2008 £8.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hello, Blue Roses The Portrait Is Finished And… £8.00 Genre: Folk Label: Locust SKU: LOCUST106LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 28th June 2008 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Beirut Artifacts Folk | Pompeii | 2LP Released 4th March 2022 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Beirut Artifacts £28.00 Genre: Folk Label: Pompeii SKU: POMP009LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 4th March 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Danielle Lewis Dreaming In Slow Motion Folk | Red Robin | 180g, 1LP Released 19th November 2021 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Danielle Lewis Dreaming In Slow Motion £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Red Robin SKU: RRR014LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 19th November 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Christy Moore Live In Dublin Folk | Tara | 1LP Released 14th August 2020 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Christy Moore Live In Dublin £18.00 Genre: Folk Label: Tara SKU: 725986 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 14th August 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Marry Waterson & Emily Barker A Window To Other Ways Folk | One Little Independent | 1LP Released 27th March 2019 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Marry Waterson & Emily Barker A Window To Other Ways £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: One Little Independent SKU: TPLP1482 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 27th March 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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