ONE day, all box sets will be made this way.
Four CDs from 40 years of English folk song are complemented by the road-documentary DVD Travelling For A Living, a 52-page history booklet with running commentary and a family-tree wall chart of the discography of this extraordinarily productive Yorkshire family practice.
The Watersons and now Waterson:Carthy may dislike the tag that won't go away, but Mighty River Of Song is the crowning glory for "the Royal Family of Folk" from Hull and Robin Hood's Bay. What a mighty river of revivalist song it is: there are 86 tracks, all remastered, 40 previously unreleased and a dozen more from rare or out-of-print records. This overview spans skiffle and jazz roots, through traditional music, to the Mercury Music Prize-nominated recordings of Norma Waterson and Eliza Carthy. The river still flows, ever stronger....
Updated: 09:12 Thursday, June 10, 2004
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