The Americans Have Stolen My True Love...Eliza Carthy
Any other Eliza Carthy fans around? I know Mike is since he's the one who gave me this wonderful compilation of her Rice and Red albums a couple years ago. Mostly traditional English folk music on the first "Rice" half with a couple originals, moving into more contemporary and electrified territory in the second "Red" half. I enjoy the more traditional folk half the best but the whole collection is very solid, even if the "modern" half doesn't distinguish her in my mind as well as the folk half does. Some amazing fiddle playing, especially in that second half. Kinda Steeleye Span sounding. Very cool.
I do have a question about the chosen sequence of this comp, Mike. The songs all seem to follow the same order as on the original albums, except for the first two songs. Was this by choice or just an accident? And were these taken from the orginal 2-disc set Red Rice or from the later separate releases? Or were they always released separately in the UK?
Anyway, I don't think I ever said much about this comp at the time, but I do really appreciate it and just wanted to mention that there is some awfully good music on here. Really opened my eyes to her talent. Thanks, and as usual, a quality comp from the packaging through to the music :)
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