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Eliza Carthy & The Restitution: Queen of the Whirl

Eliza Carthy & The Restitution: Queen of the Whirl (Need to Know NTKBB2022CX)

Queen of the Whirl
Eliza Carthy & The Restitution

Need to Know Music NTKBB2022ECX (CD, UK, 11 November 2022)
Need to Know Music NTKBB2022EC1 (LP, UK, 18 November 2022)

Eliza Carthy & The Restitution: Queen of the Whirl EP 1: The Snow It Melts the Soonest (Need to Know)

Queen of the Whirl EP 1: The Snow It Melts the Soonest
Eliza Carthy & The Restitution

Need to Know Music (EP, UK, 4 August 2022)

Queen of the Whirl EP 2: Stumbling On
Eliza Carthy & The Restitution

Need to Know Music (EP, UK, 1 September 2022)

Eliza Carthy & The Restitution: Queen of the Whirl EP 2: Stubling On (Need to Know)
Eliza Carthy & The Restitution: Queen of the Whirl EP 3: Blood on My Boots (Need to Know)

Queen of the Whirl EP 3: Blood on My Boots
Eliza Carthy & The Restitution

Need to Know Music (EP, UK, 29 September 2022)

Queen of the Whirl EP 4: Accordion Song
Eliza Carthy & The Restitution

Need to Know Music (EP, UK, 11 November 2022)

Eliza Carthy & The Restitution: Queen of the Whirl EP 4: Accordion Song (Need to Know)

Eliza Carthy & The Restitution’ album Queen of the Whirl marks her 30th year as a professional musician and includes 15 reworked tracks from her long career. It will be released on four consecutive EPs, and finally on CD on 11 November 2022.

Produced by Eliza Carthy and Ben Seal;
Recorded by Ben and Joseph Seal at The Piggery, Fife;
Mixed by Ben Seal;
Mastered by Nick Cooke;
Original artwork by Tracy Dovey;
Design by Dan MacDonald Studios

Tradfolk album introduction by Jon Wilks
Folking.com review by Mike Davies

Musicians

Eliza Carthy: violin, octave violin, vocals;
Saul Rose: melodeon, vocals;
David Delarre: electric guitar, vocals;
Phil Alexander: piano, organ, accordion, vocals;
Ben Seal: bass, percussion, vocals;
Willy Molleson: drums, lead vocals [7], vocals

with
The Sweet Rosemarys (Rory MacLeod, Lane Steinberg, Jon Boden and John Spiers, Matt Quinn, Angeline Morrison, Jon Loomes, Neil S. Reddy, Helen Lindsey, Ben Walker, John Burscough, Scott Doonican, Amy Gill, S. Chevalier, Tom Hughes, Sheema Mukherjee, Morton Fontenot) [15]

Tracks

Queen of the Whirl EP 1: The Snow It Melts the Soonest

  1. Whirly Whorl (Roud 12573) (3.13)
    originally from Eliza Carthy & The Kings of Calicutt (1997)
  2. The Snow It Melts the Soonest (Roud 3154) (4.43)
    originally from Rice (1998)
  3. The Company of Men (3.29)
    originally from Angels & Cigarettes (2000)
  4. Jacky Tar (Roud 511; Laws K40) (3.17)
    originally from Heat Light & Sound (1996)

Queen of the Whirl EP 2: Stumbling On

  1. Stumbling On (3.17)
    originally from Red (1998)
  2. Mohair (3.23)
    originally from Rough Music (2005)
  3. Mr Magnifico (5.58)
    originally from Dreams of Breathing Underwater (2008)
  4. My Father’s Mansions (3.52)
    originally from Where Have All the Flowers Gone: The Songs of Pete Seeger (1998)

Queen of the Whirl EP 3: Blood on My Boots

  1. Space Girl (4.30)
    originally from The Imagined Village: Empire & Love (2010)
  2. Two Tears (3.44)
    originally from Dreams of Breathing Underwater (2008) and Wayward Daughter (2013)
  3. Blood on My Boots (6.08)
    originally from Neptune (2011)

Queen of the Whirl EP 4: Accordion Song

  1. Pretty Ploughboy (Roud 186; Laws M24; G/D 1:170; Henry H105) (4.53)
    originally from Anglicana (2002)
  2. In London So Fair (Roud 2989; G/D 1:178; Henry H203) (7.04)
    originally from Anglicana (2002)
  3. Accordion Song (4.24)
    originally from Red (1998)
  4. Good Morning, Mr Walker (Slinger and Norma Go to the Dancehall Mix) (4.06)
    originally from Eliza Carthy & The Kings of Calicutt (1997)

Tracks 1-2, 4, 12-13 trad.;
Track 3 Eliza Carthy, Ben Ivitsky, Martin Carthy;
Track 5 Lal Waterson, Oliver Knight;
Tracks 6, 11, 14 Eliza Carthy;
Tracks 3, 10 Eliza Carthy, Ben Ivitsky;
Track 8 Pete Seeger;
Track 9 Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger;
Track 15 Slinger Francisco