Eliza Carthy - Red Rice

Title: Red Rice Artist: Eliza Carthy Release Date: 5/19/1998 Label: Topic Records Duration: 110:29 UPC: 714822200127 Genre: Folk Styles: British Folk, Contemporary Folk, Progressive Folk Moods: Searching, Bittersweet, Energetic, Intense, Intimate, Provocative, Quirky, Witty, Wry, Brooding, Playful, Reflective, Tense/Anxious, Earnest, Earthy, Literate, Organic, Stylish, Wistful Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 2

1. Accordian Song [Accidental Saturday Night Kitchen Mix]
2. 10,000 Miles
3. Billy Boy/The Widdow's Wedding
4. Time in the Son
5. Stumbling On
6. Stingo/The Stacking Reel
7. Greenwood Laddie/Mrs. Capron's Reel/Tune
8. Walk Away
9. Adieu Adieu
10. Russia (Call Waiting)
11. Red Rice

1. Blow the Winds/The Game of Draughts
2. The Snow It Melts the Soonest
3. Picking up Sticks/The Old Mole/Felton Lonnin/Kingston Girls
4. Miller and the Lass
5. Herring Song
6. Mons Meg
7. Tuesday Morning
8. Haddock and Chips
9. The Americans Have Stolen My True Love Away
10. Zycanthos Jig/Tommy's Foot/Quebecois
11. The Sweetness of Mary/Holywell Hornpipe/Swedish
12. Benjamin Bowmaneer
13. Commodore Moore/The Black Dance/A Andy O

Year Type Label Catalog # 1998 CD Topic Records 2001

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Being the daughter of veteran British folkies Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson creates rather high expectations for Eliza Carthy, but on this ambitious double album she proves she can deliver. The conceit here is that each disc has its own jewelbox and its own style. Red is electric folk-fusion mixed with modern modes, while Rice uses more traditional means with subtler modernization. Each album has its charm. Red opens with an original called "Accordion Song (Accidental Saturday Night Kitchen Mix)," which combines a Cajun-sounding accordion with more typical but clever English folk music. One instrumental "Stingo/The Stacking Reel" combines Irish fiddling with the drum'n'bass style of Medeski, Martin & Wood. On Red Carthy succeeds where many who have attempted folk with a twist have failed -- she manages to impart new beats on old songs without making them sound merely ersatz. Rice starts off with the wonderful traditional "Blow the Winds" sung by Carthy accompanied by Ed Boyd on bouzouki, combined with a Carthy original reel, "The Game of Draughts." Many of the songs on Rice have the "square" rhythms of English folk music, and Carthy consistently brings a nice bounce to it, like a cheerful rendition of "Yankee Doodle Dandy." After a couple of energetic and engaging instrumentals made up of a jig, a hornpipe, and the like, Carthy accompanies herself on piano in a melancholy rendition of "Benjamin Bowmaneer," a traditional in the spirit of "John Barleycorn Must Die." While nothing on Red Rice may be revolutionary, it all speaks to the heart. Carthy has demonstrated that she can deliver in both the old way and the new. ~ Kurt Keefner, All Music Guide

Name Credits Andy Thorburn Keyboards Barnaby Stradling Multi Instruments, Arranger Ed Boyd Multi Instruments, Arranger Eliza Carthy Producer, Vocals, Multi Instruments, Arranger John Haxby Digital Graphics Lucy Adams Vocals (Background) Martin Green Arranger, Multi Instruments N. Macauley Arranger, Producer, Engineer Oliver Knight Engineer, Guitar (Electric), Arranger Rory McLeod Harmonica Sam Thomas Multi Instruments, Arranger Saul Rose Vocals, Arranger, Multi Instruments Shack Arranger, Programming Tom Howard Photography