View basket “The Cocktail Cowboy Goes It Alone” has been added to your basket. 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 Will Stratton Rosewood Almanac Folk | Bella Union | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 9th May 2017 £19.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Will Stratton Rosewood Almanac £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Bella Union SKU: BELLA616V Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 9th May 2017 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Fuzzy Lights Twin Feathers Folk | Little Red Rabbit | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 27th August 2010 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fuzzy Lights Twin Feathers £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Little Red Rabbit SKU: LRR020 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 27th August 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tré Burt Traffic Fiction Folk | Oh Boy Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 6th October 2023 £20.00 Select options Tré Burt Traffic Fiction £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Oh Boy Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 6th October 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Dando Shaft Dando Shaft Folk | Sommor | 180g, 1LP Released 24th May 2011 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dando Shaft Dando Shaft £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Sommor SKU: SOMM003 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 24th May 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Essex Green, The Cannibal Sea (reissue) Folk | Merge Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 20th July 2018 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Essex Green, The Cannibal Sea (reissue) £21.00 Genre: Folk Label: Merge Records SKU: MRG278LPC1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 20th July 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Simon And Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water (SACD) Folk | Mobile Fidelity | SACD Released 31st August 2024 £41.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Simon And Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water (SACD) £41.00 Genre: Folk Label: Mobile Fidelity SKU: CMFSA2263 Formats: SACD Released Date: 31st August 2024 Read More Pre 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 Peat & Diesel Live at Barrowlands 2020 Folk | Wee Studio Records | 2LP Released 29th January 2021 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Peat & Diesel Live at Barrowlands 2020 £28.00 Genre: Folk Label: Wee Studio Records SKU: WSPD6 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 29th January 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Richard Thompson Still (US Pressing) Folk | Fantasy | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 9th October 2015 £38.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Richard Thompson Still (US Pressing) £38.00 Genre: Folk Label: Fantasy SKU: FAN37476 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 9th October 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Eliza Carthy & The Restitution Queen Of The Whirl Folk | HemHem Records | 1LP Released 11th November 2022 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Eliza Carthy & The Restitution Queen Of The Whirl £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: HemHem Records SKU: NTKBB2022EC1 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th November 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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