Available for another 20 days or so – a splendid BBC Radio 3 hour with Martin & Eliza Carthy and homages to departed musical family members, presented by Kathryn Tickell. 🙂
At Home with the Carthys…
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Thanks Colin.
I love Eliza and Norma’s music and I respect Martin Carthy as a guitar player and musical historian of the folk genre but sorry I cannot abide his voice.
An unsurmountable obstacle, I suspect! I love it personally. But there are many other voices I can’t deal with – Elvis Costello/Lenny Kravitz (the same voice, really), Bob Dylan, that bloke in If (JD Hodgkinson) etc. I love the sound of If (I curated a 1970-72 BBC 2CD last year) and the instrumental content is fabulous – but the Hod’s voice isn’t for me.
Bloody hell Colin, don’t say you can’t stand Elvis Costello’s voice to @SteveT, he rates him as the Scouse Pavarotti.
Scouse (adj, colloq): descriptive of person from Twickenham
@hedgepig exactly- he may be a Liverpool supporter but he most certainly isn’t Scouse nor does he remotely sound like Lenny Kravitz but I accept his voice is not for everyone.
I think Colin’s ears must be addled from years of Mahavishnu abuse. Say what you like about EC’s voice, he doesn’t sound like – lol – Lenny Kravitz.
Have to say first time I heard Lenny Kravitz I thought he sounded like Elvis C.
I am (or was) a huge fan of Declan, but at some point somebody told him he was a good singer and it went to his head.
* He lived in Birkenhead for a few years as a teenager
He did indeed live in Birkenhead for a while as a teenager but even that surely wouldn’t make him Scouse? His later teens and early twenties he was back in London where he wrote about the Hoover Factory and later still Londons brilliant parade.
I’ve always thought that Lenny Kravitz sounds so like Elvis Costello on the track Let Love Rule
For the purposes of education, here is the Hod, foghorning with the mighty IF.
While I’m here… Carthy at the BBC 10 years before, with string quartet:
Thanks for that Colin. I will listen to it tomorrow when it will probably still be raining in Dumfries. The last M&E gig I attended was in Moffat Town Hall in May of 2019. Martin was not at his best due to a bout of the flu but he soldiered on anyway. Eliza was in fine voice though and the night was enjoyed by a capacity crowd.
Looking forward to listening to that.
Eliza shared her inheritance tracks on Saturday Live yesterday morning. Worth a listen. I didn’t realise she was now a teacher.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001gws5?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Already downloaded for later listening.
Music Planet is one of the radio shows I download every week (usually Monday evenings) via get_iplayer.
How is it that I have never heard of Music Planet? Thanks for putting it on my radar, Mike!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09ymx3v
It’s right up my street! Juste à mon goût. Esto es lo que me va.
“Bex Burch from Vula Viel talks about the challenges she faced in Ghana when learning to play the gyil”
Or how about this?
Jackie Oates with a work song sung by lacemakers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p071ll2t