A splendid half hour with the Great Man 🙂
New Martin Carthy concert film
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Musings on the byways of popular culture
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A splendid half hour with the Great Man 🙂
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Superb….Thanks Mr H
Splendid stuff.
The first time I saw Carthy was at the Lewes Arms Folk Club. I will have been 17, maybe 18. He was already a legend, past his first round of Swarb collaborations and Steeleye, back playing the clubs he never left. That will have been about 47 years ago and he is still at it, clearly older and frailer and yet seemingly unchanged. Astonishing.
What a stupendous find! Martin Carthy is a national treasure. Such an excellent storyteller.
Hats off to the Library of Congress for doing it all so well.
I’m going to take a look at some of their other homegrown stuff and post it on my Tiny Desk thread.
The LOC and NPR are probably just down the road from each other in Washington.