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Martin Carthy live in 1973: New download album
Posted by Kevin Boyd, 2 May 2013 Smooth Operations are well known to British and Irish folk music aficionados for their links to the BBC Folk Awards and Cambridge Folk Festival and as the producers of… more →
"Come Sing It Plain..."
Martin Carthy at St Mary's Penzance June 1
wrote 1 week ago: The most exciting thing I have done in recent years is to book Martin to come down to Penzance. Miss … more →
Song of the Day, May 8: The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Martin Carthy
wrote 2 weeks ago: Today’s song is The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Martin Carthy, another stunning track from … more →
Martin Carthy live in 1973: New download album
wrote 2 weeks ago: Posted by Kevin Boyd, 2 May 2013 Smooth Operations are well known to British and Irish folk music af … more →
BluesChain launches
wrote 1 month ago: Martin Carthy performing with The Imagined Village at Camp Bestival (Photo credit: Wikipedia) So the … more →
How To Buy: 1960s Fontana Albums
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wrote 2 months ago: Posted by Kevin Boyd, 10 March 2013 (edited 16 March 2013) This is the first of a series of posts de … more →
Song of the Day, March 6: The Trees They Do Grow High by Martin Carthy
wrote 2 months ago: Today’s song is The Trees They Do Grow High by Martin Carthy. It’s an old traditional ba … more →
Dylan & His Sources
wrote 2 months ago: Further to yesterday’s post, I would like to illustrate some of the changes in Dylan’s w … more →
Hymns Ancient and Modern.
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wrote 2 months ago: My childhood was full of hymns, and not just at church on Sunday. Every day in school assembly I san … more →
Five Things I Saw & Heard This Week: Wednesday 6th February
wrote 3 months ago: From The Blog Of Photographer Heather Harris “The first four words of vocabulary we learned in Synth … more →
Five Things I Saw & Heard This Week: Wednesday 30th January
wrote 3 months ago: What In Music’s Name Is This?: Marcel’s Miller/Moptops Mayhem A small package arrived in the post. S … more →
Five Things I Saw & Heard This Week: Wednesday 23rd January
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wrote 3 months ago: Daughter Reviews Les Mis Running time: 2.5 hours Spoken word count: 17 Number of times Hugh J cries: … more →
Playlist, Jan 17 2013
wrote 4 months ago: THOM LION Don’t Wanna Drink ‘The Minimalist’ (indie) AUST local http://www.t … more →
The Borrowing (Not Stealing) Tradition
wrote 4 months ago: Its’ pretty well accepted that many things in the world of entertainment are to some extent, re-inte … more →
Song of the Day, January 2: Sovay by Martin Carthy
wrote 4 months ago: Today’s song is Sovay by Martin Carthy. It’s a traditional tune (Roud #7) included on hi … more →
Topic Records to make out of print material available digitally
wrote 5 months ago: Weird how things happen at times, synchronicity, chance etc. On Friday, the 21st December I was busy … more →
The Late Great Bert Jansch
wrote 5 months ago: A couple of tracks from the great Bert Jansch, who died in October last year. First up us his extrao … more →
52 Weeks ~ Spooky (44/52)
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Album of the Week, November 4: Martin Carthy
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wrote 6 months ago: It’s no exaggeration to call Martin Carthy one of the most important figures in folk music in … more →
Musty Maestros at the Festival of Folk in The People's Republic
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wrote 7 months ago: Bangin’ away on the banjo Two folk festivals in the space of a month. No wonder I’ve started s … more →
