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Conversations We’ve Had Before

Eliza Carthy Trio: Conversations We’ve Had Before (Hem Hem)

Conversations We’ve Had Before
Eliza Carthy Trio

Hem Hem Records (DL, UK, 4 July 2023)

Recorded by Ben Seal;
Mixed by Ben Seal and Eliza Carthy

Tradfolk album review by Jon Wilks

Musicians

Eliza Carthy: violin, octave violin, vocals;
Saul Rose: accordion, vocals;
David Delarre: gut-string guitar, vocals

Tracks

  1. Knife in the Window (Roud 32572) (3.42)
  2. Avington Pond (Roud 1654) / Mrs Casey (5.02)
  3. The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (Roud 132; Laws N27; G/D 5:1061) (6.02)
  4. Pecket’s Black Mary / Love Lane (5.47)
  5. The Spanish Lady’s Love (Roud 8375) / Planxty Charles Coote (7.27)
  6. Away My Brave Boys (Roud V7893) (3.42)
  7. The Message (4.07)
  8. Sword Dance / Cheshire Rolling Hornpipe (7.10)
  9. Go From My Window (Roud 966) / Whitefriars Hornpipe (3.35)
  10. Golden Slumbers (Roud V18438) (4.32)
  11. Bird in the Bush (Roud 290) (4.02)
  12. The Light of Other Days (Roud 13862) (5.30)

All tracks trad. arr. Eliza Carthy Trio except
Track 4b Eliza Carthy;
Track 7 poem by John Donne (1572);
Track 10 poem by Thomas Dekker (1599);
Track 12 Alfred Bunn (1808-1870)

Video

The Eliza Carthy Trio perform Sword Dance / Rolling Cheshire Hornpipe in mid-2022: