Track Listing

1. Light Dragoon
2. Greenwood Laddie/Mrs Capron's Reel/Tune
3. Mother Go Make My Bed/Flower Of Swiss Cottage
4. Cold Wet & Rainy Night/The Grand Hornpipe
5. Fisher Boy
6. Billy Boy/The Widdow's Wedding
7. French Stroller
8. Stumbling On
9. Blow The Winds/The Game Of Draughts
10. Mons Meg
11. Diego's Bold Shore
12. Go From My Window
13. Child Among the Weeds

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31916 in Music
• Released on: 2003-10-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

The Definitive Collection
"Collections" type albums are always a good place to start when discovering a new artist to oneself and this excellent album featuring songs from 4 of Eliza's solo albums and offerings from Waterson-Carthy albums represents a pretty comprehensive opening into this talented artist.

What makes several of the tracks very nice is that they are medleys, and usually of two songs with complete opposing styles. So for example you'll get "Billy Boy" a rather plodding moody track coupled with "The Widow's Wedding" a rather more upbeat jig altogether. This is mirrored on "Greenwood Laddie" about the nearest thing folk comes to Jazz, with "Mr's Capron's Reel" a bouncing jaunty number.

I find the pacier tracks are where Eliza comes into her own and certainly this is where her fiddling skills are shown to their best. That's not to say she can't play a haunting lament ("Mother Go Make My Bed") but I just enjoy the fun in tracks like "Cold Wet & Rainy Night" and "The Light Dragoon"

If you buy and like this then I'll definitely predict you'll be after one of her studio albums soon.

Five good reasons to like Eliza Carthy
1) She's part of folk royalty (if you didn't know) - her dad is Martin Carthy, her mum is Norma Waterson (both legends in their own right), her aunt and uncle are Lal and Mike Waterson and Oliver Knight is her cousin!
2) She can't half play the fiddle.
3) She has one of the most beautiful voices you'll ever hear, and she can really sing, I mean, really. I saw her live and the first song she did accapella... gobsmacking. And she's from Yorkshire! What more do you want?!
4)Her versatilty. Some of her songs are thigh-slappingly folktastic but then you get songs like Stumbling On, which is more or less jazz, or Billy Boy, which starts of sounding almost like dub reggae, goes folky and then has a Santana-ish guitar solo. And it's not just genre that changes: if Ms Capromn's Reel doesn't make you want to dance, you're daft, and then Diego's Bold Shore is guaranteed to give you shivers down your spine at the beauty of it. This album is a good introduction to the brilliantly talented Ms Carthy, and is a good starting point for people getting into folk in general as it is definately folk but not too comically 'hey-nonny -no', if you see what I mean.
5) Oh yeah, fifth reason: she's absolutely gorgeous.

faulty CD
This is the third time I have tried to buy this very good CD. Each time however, it has jumped badly on track 12!