Lal Waterson, an original member of The Watersons, and her son, guitarist Oliver Knight, have written some of the most captivating new songs to have been heard on the folk scene in many years. Other members of the Waterson clan often joined them on their records.

An entirely original collection of songs inspired by love, landscape, family and questing imagination.
• 'Up with Nick Drake and Richard Thompson in the very front rank of English songwriters.' Mojo
• 'The most innovative English folk-related album of recent years' The Independent
• 'English as anything, poetic to a quite scary degree and harshly beautiful' The Independent

As a side project in 1977, Lal and Norma Waterson recorded A True Hearted Girl, an album of solos, duos and trios (with Lal's daughter Maria). Lal and Norma varied the tried and true vision of The Watersons on this outing, by only using female voices and in different combinations. This gives the album a different ambience and depth and it captures the Waterson sisters' family empathy in full flight.

Here are two of England's most stirring women singers in solo, duet and trio performances (joined by Lal's daughter, Maria). Highlights of A True Hearted Girl include The Flowers of the Forest, I Wish I Never Had and Grace Darling. This reissue includes two extra tracks; one from the 1966 Watersons album, A Yorkshire Garland, and a 1998 recording of The Waterdaughters (Lal, Norma, Maria & Eliza Carthy).