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The Definitive Collection
by: Eliza Carthy

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0714822600521
Label: Highpoint
Manufacturer: Highpoint
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Highpoint
Release Date: October 06, 2003
Studio: Highpoint
Sales Rank: 10595




Disc 1:
  1. Light Dragoon
  2. Greenwood Laddie/Mrs Capron's Reel/Tune
  3. Mother, Go Make My Bed/Flower of Swiss Cottage
  4. Cold Wet & Rainy Night/The Grand Hornpipe
  5. Fisher Boy
  6. Billy Boy/The Widdow's Wedding
  7. French Stroller
  8. Stumbling On
  9. Blow the Winds/The Game of Draughts
  10. Mons Meg
  11. Diego's Bold Shore
  12. Go from My Window
  13. Child Among the Weeds
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Five good reasons to like Eliza Carthy
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:



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - The Definitive Collection
"Collections" type albums are always a good place to start when discovering a new artist to oneself and this excellent album featuring songs from 4 of Eliza's solo albums and offerings from Waterson-Carthy albums represents a pretty comprehensive opening into this talented artist.

What makes several of the tracks very nice is that they are medleys, and usually of two songs with complete opposing styles. So for example you'll get "Billy Boy" a rather plodding moody track coupled with "The Widow's Wedding" a rather more upbeat jig altogether. This is mirrored on "Greenwood Laddie" about the nearest thing folk comes to Jazz, with "Mr's Capron's Reel" a bouncing jaunty number.

I find the pacier tracks are where Eliza comes into ... Read More:

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