Eliza Carthy: let's make a song and dance of her new honour
December 01, 2021
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Eliza Carthy
Twelve Days of Winter #10. Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden: I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas
December 15, 2024
Andrew Curry writes: There are some truly dreadful Christmas novelty songs, but some have a certain wit about them. I’m willing to stick my neck out here, and argue that I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas comes into this second... Read more →
Linda Thompson and her proxy voices
August 22, 2024
Andrew Curry writes: Following on from Colin’s piece yesterday on the Artist of the Week slot at our Facebook group, we’re sharing a version of the AOTW Facebook post that celebrated Linda Thompson. This was partly to mark her latest... Read more →
Magic by proxy: Linda Thompson finds her voices
April 10, 2024
Colin Randall welcomes long-awaited news of an exciting project in which Linda Thompson assembles musically gifted family and friends for an album of the songs she wrote but cannot perform herself …. Linda Thompson has one of the best-loved voices... Read more →
Piper's purism, pricked pride and pointed questions about the value of reviewers
April 08, 2024
Two years ago, a bagpipe-playing reviewer caused offence with his mixed appraisal of a Peter Knight/John Spiers album. Decades before that, purists were snooty about folk clubs with more open-minded outlooks. After all the developments folk music has seen, Colin... Read more →
Song of the Day: Eliza Carthy ... Mr Magnifico
July 13, 2021
July 2021 update: today, I listened for the first time in many years to Eliza Carthy's Mr Magnifico, to which I had been alerted by great friend - and occasional Salut! Live contributor - Pete Sixsmith. I had forgotten just... Read more →
