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Martin Dominic Forbes Carthy MBE (born 21 May 1941) is an English singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in English folk music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, as well as later artists such as Richard Thompson, since he emerged as a young musician in the early days of the folk revival in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s.
A concert tour followed in 2002, ... 4-CD box set tracing the career of Martin Carthy includes one track by the original Blue Murder line-up, recorded live at ...
The group had a repertoire of predominantly British traditional songs and tunes but also occasionally performed contemporary songs from various sources. Their instrumentation was based largely around Martin Carthy's guitar, Eliza Carthy's fiddle and the melodeons of Saul Rose (1996–2000 and 2007–2022) and Tim Van Eyken (2000–2007), with other instruments regularly augmenting their ...
Brass Monkey was formed with the addition of Williams and Brinsford after initially being billed as The Martin Carthy Band. [ 2 ] In 1984, after recording their first album, Williams was replaced by Richard Cheetham (born 29 January 1957, in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire). [ 1 ]
It's an album of re-recorded tracks from their 5 albums made as a duo. The album features a number of special guests, including: Fay Hield, James Fagan, Nancy Kerr, Maddy Prior, Martin Carthy, Martin Simpson and Eliza Carthy. [8] [9] In October 2013, they announced that their 2014 tour would be their last "for the foreseeable future". [10]
Performers at the concert included various former members of 'The Watersons', current and former members of Waterson–Carthy and a number of other Waterson family members. The concert also included a short performance by Brass Monkey which was intended to re-launch the band after the death of their founder member Howard Evans in 2006.
Shearwater is an album by Martin Carthy, released in 1972 on the Pegasus label as PEG12. It was re-released on vinyl in 1973/74 by Mooncrest as CREST25. The album was re-issued on CD in 1995, by Mooncrest, as CRESTCD 008 and then again, in March 2005 by Castle Music , as CMQCD1096.
The band made four albums between 1968 and 1970 and toured the UK extensively, including Led Zeppelin's first tour in 1969 along with Blodwyn Pig, and playing to some 150,000 people at the July 1969 Isle of Wight Festival on the same day as Bob Dylan and The Band. They also toured the United States later in 1969, on one gig in Detroit sharing ...