On Right Of Passage from 1988, Carthy draws tunes from Quebec, Brittany and Mozart, songs from Leon Rosselson and Mike Waterson and poems from e.e.cummings and an anonymous 17th-century pamphleteer into a surprising but successful union of old and new, traditional and individual.
“An absorbing album, rich in detail and character.” Sounds
Martin Carthy vocals, guitar
with
John Kirkpatrick one-row melodeon , button accordeon
Chris Wood fiddle
Dave Swarbrick fiddle
1 The Ant & the Grasshopper
2 Eggs in Her Basket
3 A Stitch in Time
4 McVeagh
5 Hommage a Roche Proulx
6 All in Green
7 Company Policy
8 The Banks of the Nile
9 La Cardeuse
10 Bill Norrie
11 The Sleepwalker
12 A Cornish Young Man
13 The Dominion of the Sword
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