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The Definitive Collection

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by: Eliza Carthy

Release Date October 06, 2003
1) She's part of folk royalty (if you didn't know) - her dad is Martin Carthy, her mum is Norma Waterson (both legends in their own right), her aunt and uncle are Lal and Mike Waterson and Oliver Knight is her cousin!
2) She can't half play the fiddle.
3) She has one of the most beautiful voices you'll ever hear, and she can really sing, I mean, really. I saw her live and the first song she did accapella... gobsmacking. And she's from Yorkshire! What more do you want?!
4)Her versatilty. Some of her songs are thigh-slappingly folktastic but then you get songs like Stumbling On, which is more or less jazz, or Billy Boy, which starts of sounding almost like dub reggae, goes folky and then has a Santana-ish guitar solo. And it's ... Read More:

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Common Tongue

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by: Waterson:Carthy

Release Date March 03, 1997
A long time ago when I were a lad, the Waterson family bestrode the English folk scene like colossi. Mike, Lal and Norma, along with Norma's husband, Martin Carthy produced fantastic albums of muscular unaccompanied harmony singing that which were guaranteed to raise the hairs on the back of your neck and (if you were that way inclined) to have you belting out the choruses along with them.

Then things went a bit quiet.

On Common Tongue Martin, Norma and their daughter Eliza carry on that tradition in style. Of course they're not going to sound the same so they don't try. Instead we get a set of tunes and songs that benefit from Martin and Liza's instantly recognizable accompaniment weaving through and around the material, always ... Read More: