| 1. Carthy's debut album rates a place alongside the album by Bob Dylan, as the debut work of a man who ultimately revolutionized folk music performance in England . This is Carthy's purest and simplest folk effort, an all-acoustic recording done in barely an afternoon that includes his version of "Scarborough Fair," awhich Paul Simon learned from Carthy and transformed into a hit of his own. Also here is "Two Magicians," a song that later entered the repertory Steeleye Span, and "Lovely Joan," a folk song that is most familiar to classical listeners as the source of the counter-melody to Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Fantasia on Greensleeves." The playing and the interpretations are somewhat less ambitious and rather rougher than subsequent efforts, with Dave Swarbrick guesting on fiddle on about half the tracks, and Carthy's guitar covering all but the acapella tracks |
| 2. Tracklist: |
| 3. 1.01 - - High Germany |
| 4. 1.02 - - The Trees They Do Grow High |
| 5. 1.03 - - Sovay |
| 6. 1.04 - - Ye Mariners All |
| 7. 1.05 - - The Queen of Hearts |
| 8. 1.06 - - Broomfield Hill |
| 9. 1.07 - - Springhill Mine Disaster |
| 10. 1.08 - - Scarborough Fair |
| 11. 1.09 - - Lovely Joan |
| 12. 1.10 - - The Barley and the Rye |
| 13. 1.11 - - The Wind That Shakes the Barley |
| 14. 1.12 - - The Two Magicians |
| 15. 1.13 - - The Handsome Cabin Boy |
| 16. 1.14 - - And a Begging I Will Go |
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