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CELEBRATING 69
YEARS OF GREAT RECORDED FOLK MUSIC

Folk music real music that comes from the hearts, heads and histories of its performers ...

ELIZA CARTHY new cd released 23rd June 2008

Eliza Carthy "Dreams of Breathing Underwater" (tscd571)

Winner of two Mercury Award nominations, three BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and numerous other accolades, Eliza Carthy is easily the most impressive and engaging folk artist of her generation.

She has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists including Paul Weller, Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Joan Baez, Nick Cave and Peter Gabriel. And yet, while traditional music is her lifelong love, Eliza had always planned to stay with the songwriting thing she started eight years ago with "Angels & Cigarettes", her only album for a major label. And a good thing for us that she did. Years in the making, Dreams of Breathing Underwater showcases a much more mature songwriting and performing talent - lyrically, musically and stylistically.

• "A strong suite of [in the main] self-penned songs rich in drama and feeling. A broad and ambitious palette. A ‘Top of the World Album" Songlines

• • "It’s a fizz-bang jamboree bag of an album exploding with ideas, unexpected tangents and corking story songs." fRoots (lead review)

• This is the work of a wonderful artist who refuses to stand still." ½ The Sun

• "Her most sophisticated album yet and one destined to win her a whole new set of admirers – the care and invention on display is striking." Observer Music Magazine

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ELIZA CARTHY special offers

PRICE REDUCTIONS ON ELIZA CARTHY & WATERSON:CARTHY'S BACK CATALOGUE!!!

To celebrate the release of Eliza’s new album, we are offering all her previous solo albums on Topic and all her albums with Waterson:Carthy and Blue Murder at special prices.

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THE RADIO BALLADS back at mid price with a free cd

Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker & Peggy Seeger "The Radio Ballads" (tscd801 - 808)

We want to celebrate the re-release at Mid-Price of the original and ground breaking Radio Ballads!

2008 is the 50th anniversary of the broadcast of the first, the famous "Ballad of John Axon."

A new publication to celebrate the series is Peter Cox's book Set Into Song - Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker and the Radio Ballads. Go to www.setintosong.co.uk to browse the book and buy a copy.

You can buy them individually, but if you buy all 8 Radio Ballads at the special price of £50.00 [that's £42.55 excl VAT tax outside the European Union] not only will you save over 25% on the individual CD price ... you'll also receive the 16 track Ewan MacColl CD “Solo Flight” COMPLETELY FREE!!!

Recorded in 1972 for Argo Records, “Solo Fight” was released on CD in 2000, but it has been out of print for several years now and it's not available elsewhere.

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BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2008

• Martin Simpson's album "Prodigal Son" has been voted BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards ALBUM OF THE YEAR
• The song "Never Any Good" from "Prodigal Son" has been voted BEST ORIGINAL SONG
  Plus!
• John Tams and Barry Coope have been voted DUO OF THE YEAR
• Andy Cutting, the winner of the Musician of the Year 2008 award, is also featured on Martin Simpson’s "Prodigal Son" and June Tabor’s "Apples".

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