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Martin & Eliza Carthy - The Moral of the Elephant
Martin Carthy and Eliza Carthy (Martin's daughter, now over 20 years into her music career, and with her own reputation well established) team up for the first time as a duo and release the results on the Topic label. There's a whole chunk of English music history just in those three names. But this is no dry museum piece. They remain convincing performers after all those years, and although this looks to be a reduction of the Waterson:Carthy lineup with Norma Waterson (Martin's wife, Eliza's mother) seemingly retired they still retain that trio's, indeed the whole extended Waterson family's, sheer joy in singing and playing. Eliza is poised to join her mother in the ranks of great English singers. Martin remains untouchably unique as a guitarist. The arrangements and Eliza's playing evoke a particularly English romanticism that I don't think I've heard from her before. They also tip their hats to another musical family connection by recording a song by Molly Drake, mother of Nick. It's one of the best things on the record, but by no means the only good thing.
PS: I got this from Proper Music. Prices better than Amazon and one pound shipping per order.
