Martin Carthy

Martin Carthy ( born May 21, 1940 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire ) is a British folk singer, guitarist and mandolin player.

Biography

Carthy joined in the late 1950s and early 1960s, first with a skiffle band called The Thameside Four, where he remained three years, in various cafes in London. Later, he received offers of some London's clubs, so he separated from The Thameside Four, and began a solo act in a folk club called the Troubadour. At this time he also took up the first EP for Topic Records, but remained largely unnoticed.

One in Carthy's performances also heard Paul Simon Carthy's version of the old folk song Scarborough Fair and asked him for the text and the arrangement that he received. Scarborough Fair, leaning on Carthy's version, later to become a big hit for Simon and Garfunkel. The copyright lies exclusively with Paul Simon, what Martin Carthy was a thorn in the side, as he calls the " traditional source " actually was. A reconciliation between the two, it was only in 2000 when Paul Simon sang the song together with Carthy at a concert in London. 1962 was also Bob Dylan just in London and heard Carthy's version of Lord Franklin. Dylan worked the song to light and published it under the name Bob Dylan 's Dream on The Freewheelin 'Bob Dylan.

In the same year Carthy got a recording contract with Fontana Records and released the album Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick on the also starred. Increased between 1966 and 1969 at the two together five albums and an EP, on which they clung to a traditional way of playing folk songs. Then Swarbrick joined Fairport Convention. Carthy was then in 1970 a member of Steeleye Span. The band then began chose to cover some of the songs that Carthy had already published on his solo albums. Overall, Carthy's experience in terms old folk songs, the band came in good stead. But in 1971 he left Steeleye Span again, however, was in 1977, when he replaced guitarist Bob Johnson, until the provisional dissolution of the group in 1978 back again.

In 1970, he married Norma Waterson and joined in order of playing music family band, The Watersons, at. He was also briefly a member of Ashley Hutchings ' The Albion Band and was involved in 1973 in their album Battle of the Fields. In the 1970s, Carthy is also engaged in the field of theater. In the 1980s he co-founded the folk band Brass Monkey and again began to perform with Swarbrick. Even in the 1990s and 2000s, he continued to publish regularly solo albums. His daughter, Eliza Carthy, is a successful folk musician.

Martin Carthy has been repeatedly awarded the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award.

Discography ( Solo)

  • Martin Carthy (1965 on Topic )
  • Second Album (1966 on Topic )
  • Byker Hill ( 1967 Fontana)
  • No Songs ( 1967 Fontana (EP) )
  • Rags, Reels and Air ( 1967 Bounty )
  • But Two Came By (1968 on Topic )
  • Prince Heathen (1969 on Topic )
  • Round Up (1970 on Fontana (EP) )
  • Because It 's There (1971 on Topic )
  • Crown of Horn (1971 on Topic )
  • Out of the Cut (1971 on Topic )
  • Sweet Wivelsfield ( Topic 1971 )
  • Shearwater ( 1972 Mooncrest )
  • Crown of Horn (1976 on Topic )
  • Landfall (1977 on Topic )
  • Because it 's there ( 1979 Fontana)
  • Out of the Cut (1982 on Topic )
  • Right of Passage (1988 on Topic )
  • Life and Limb (1991 on Green Linnet; live)
  • Skin & Bone (1992 on Green Linnet )
  • Signs of Life (1999 on Topic )
  • Both Ears & The Tail ( 2001 Gadfly; live)
  • Waiting for Angels (2004 on Topic )
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