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The Definitive Collection (Eliza Carthy Album)
''The Definitive Collection'' is a compilation album by Eliza Carthy. The recordings were made between 1995 and 2002. The tracks are taken from ''Waterson:Carthy'' (Waterson:Carthy 1995), ''Red'' (Eliza Carthy 1998, three tracks), ''Eliza Carthy And the Kings of Calicutt'' (Eliza Carthy 1997, two tracks), ''Heat, Light and Sound'' (Eliza Carthy 1996), ''Common Tongue'' (Waterson:Carthy 1997), ''A Dark Light'' (Waterson: Carthy 2003), ''Mysterious Day'' (Oliver Knight 2002) and ''Shining Bright - The Songs of Lal and Mike Waterson''. Issued on CD in 2003. Running time 68 minutes 18 seconds. Track listing # "The Light Dragoon" (Traditional) # "Greenwood Laddie" (song)/ "Mrs Capron's Reel" (instrumental)/ "Tune" (instrumental) (Traditional) # "Mother, Go Make My Bed"/ "Flower of Swiss Cottage" (Traditional) # "Cold, Wet and Rainy Night" (song)/ "The Grand Hornpipe" (instrumental) (Traditional) # "Fisher Boy" (Traditional) # "Billy Boy" (song)/ "The Widdow's Wedding" (instrumenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliza Carthy
Eliza Amy Forbes Carthy, MBE (born 23 August 1975) is an English folk musician known for both singing and playing the fiddle. She is the daughter of English folk musicians singer/guitarist Martin Carthy and singer Norma Waterson. Life and career Carthy was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. She went to school at Fyling Hall School in North Yorkshire. She grew up on a family farm along with her maternal aunt and uncle's families who lived adjacent. At thirteen, Carthy formed the Waterdaughters with her mother, aunt (Lal Waterson) and cousin Marry Waterson. She has subsequently worked with Nancy Kerr, with her parents as Waterson–Carthy, and as part of the "supergroup" Blue Murder, in addition to her own solo work. When she was 13, Carthy joined the Goathland Plough Stots as a fiddle player. She left school at 17 for a career as a professional touring musician. She has twice been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize for UK album of the year: in 1998 for ''Red Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Boy
"Billy Boy" is a traditional folk song and nursery rhyme found in the United States, in which "Billy Boy" is asked various questions, and the answers all center on his quest to marry a girl who is said to be too young to leave her mother. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 326. It is a variant of the traditional English folk song "My Boy Billy", collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by him in 1912 as number 232 in ''Novello's School Songs''. Origins and interpretations The nursery rhyme, framed in question-and-answer form, is ironic and teasing in tone: The narrative of the song has been related by some to " Lord Randall", a murder ballad from the British Isles, in which the suitor is poisoned by the woman he visits. By contrast, Robin Fox uses the song to make a point about cooking and courtship, and observes: Feeding has always been closely linked with courtship With humans this works two ways since we are the only animals who cook: the bride is usua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lal Waterson
Elaine "Lal" Waterson (15 February 1943 – 4 September 1998) was an English folksinger and songwriter. She sang with, among others, The Watersons, The Waterdaughters and Blue Murder. She was born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire. In 1998, she died suddenly in Robin Hood's Bay, of cancer diagnosed only ten days before. "Lal Waterson's voice was stark but captivating, her songs lyrically ambitious and melodically powerful." Lal Waterson was the sister of Norma Waterson and Mike Waterson, the aunt of Eliza Carthy, and the sister-in-law of Martin Carthy. She was survived by her husband of 30 years, George Knight, and her two children, Oliver Knight and Maria Gilhooley, with both of whom she had recorded albums. Biography Lal, Norma, and Mike Waterson were orphans and brought up by their grandmother who was of part gypsy descent. Always very close, they began singing together, with cousin John Harrison, in the 1950s, with Lal 'singing unexpected harmonies.' Having opened their o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Knight (musician)
Oliver Knight (born 1969) is a British singer-songwriter and sound engineer. He is son to folk singer-songwriter Lal Waterson and George Knight. He is brother and stage partner to folk musician Marry Waterson. Early life Oliver Knight was born in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Son to George and Elaine Knight (Lal Waterson) with one sister Maria Knight (Marry Waterson), he and his family lived in Park Avenue, Hull until 1976 and then moved to St. Ives Farm, Robin Hood's Bay. He attended Bricknall Ave in Hull, then Fylingthorpe C of E, Eskdale and then Whitby. Knight then went to Scarborough Technical College to study Art & Design for one year. At the age of 14, Knight started to play electric guitar, "Although encouraged by my parents, it wasn't until I found Uncle Martin’s Fender Telecaster under a bed, hi-jacked his amp and started to play along to Pink Floyd that I felt inspired to play the guitar", Knight says, "At college I made friends with some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Compilation Albums
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
