Martin Carthy ‎– Martin Carthy's Second Album

This record stands in British music history and Carthy's career roughly where "Another Side of Bob Dylan" does in American music - the more florrid tracks here, recorded with violinist Dave Swarbrick, show the path to the bridge between Carthy's traditional singer/scholar background and the folk-rock played by bands such as Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span. 

"Lord Franklin" is a narrative tour-de-force (from which Bob Dylan got the melody for "Bob Dylan's Dream" on Freewheelin' ), "Ramblin' Sailor" is boisterous cautionary tale about the company the title character keeps ashore, and there's also an acoustic recording of "Sailor's Life," a song that Fairport Convention would transmute into an epic electric version, and "Lowlands of Holland," which Steeleye Span later recorded.


Tracklist:
1 Two Butchers 2:27
2 Ball O' Yarn 1:45
3 Farewell Nancy 2:07
4 Lord Franklin 3:35
5 Ramblin' Sailor 2:49
6 Lowlands Of Holland 2:53
7 Fair Maid On The Shore 3:40
8 Bruton Town 4:35
9 Box On Her Head 2:10
10 Newlyn Town 2:20
11 Brave Wolf 3:22
12 Peggy And The Soldier 2:47
13 Sailor's Life 3:09


Martin Carthy ‎– Martin Carthy's Second Album
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