CARTHY Martin & SWARBRICK Dave
Walnut Creek - Live 1989-1996

FECD 243

5017116024320
Fellside
UK Regno Unito

 

Recorded over a six year period, Fellside's compilation of archive live recordings by one of Britain's most enduring and best loved folk duos, captures Carthy and Swarbrick in fine fettle, with a dozen songs and tunes borrowed from Dave Swarbrick's own personal archive. Whilst Dominion of the Sword captures that moment in the late 1980s, when Carthy delivered some of his most passionate politically motivated anti-war lyrics, incorporated within this 17th century ballad and performed here about a year after the release of Carthy's mighty fine Right of Passage solo album with Dave embellishing the recording with some intuitive mandolin playing, Porcupine Rag demonstrates the duo's sense of fun, with the inclusion of a false start here, familiar to anyone who has witnessed these two musicians in action over the forty-odd years of on/off collaboration. With insightful sleeve notes by Fellside'’s Paul Adams, Walnut Creek brings with it yet another taste of arguably one of the finest unions in British folk music.