''Because It's There'' is an album by
Martin Carthy, released in 1979. It was re-issued by Topic Records on CD in 1995.
Track listing
All songs "Traditional; arranged by Martin Carthy" unless noted otherwise. The Roud number refers to the Roud index of folk songs number and the Child number is from the Child Ballad numbering.
# "Nothing Rhymed" (
Gilbert O'Sullivan
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O'Sullivan's so ...
) – 2:10
# "May Song" (
Roud
The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is compiled by Steve Roud (born 1949), a former librarian in the London ...
305) – 2:49
# "Swaggering Boney"
(instrumental) – 2:46
# "Lord Randall" (Rou
10 Child 12) – 4:16
# "
Long John, Old John and Jackie North" (Roud 3100, Child 251) – 6:05
# "Jolly Tinker" (Roud 863)– 3:01
# "
Lovely Joan" (Roud 592)– 3:14
# "Three Cripples" (Roud 2422)– 3:06
# "Siege of Delhi"
(instrumental) – 4:18
# "Nothing Rhymed"
(reprise) (Gilbert O'Sullivan) – 1:18
# "
Death of Young Andrew" (Roud 6740, Child 48) – 8:37
Personnel
*Martin Carthy – vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin (6), electric guitar (7)
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John Kirkpatrick – accordion (1,7,8,10), concertina (2,6)
*
Howard Evans – trumpet (6,7)
*
Bruce Rowland – percussion (2,9)
*''uncredited'' – jew's harp (6)
;Technical
*Ashley Hutchings – production
*Jerry Boys - engineer
*
Keith Morris
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Carthy, Kirkpatrick and Evans appeared on Carthy's Album ''
Out of the Cut'' released in 1984 and followed on as three fifths of the band
Brass Monkey.
References
External links
*https://mainlynorfolk.info/martin.carthy/records/becauseitsthere.html
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1979 albums
Martin Carthy albums
Topic Records albums