Eliza Carthy - My Music (Full Film) | Gonzo
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This documentary focuses on Eliza Carthy, a singer-songwriter who is bringing traditional music to a new audience. She is the daughter of legendary folk musicians Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson. Her father was awarded an MBE for services to folk music in 1998, which actually seems quite a niggardly gesture when one considers how important a figure he actually is. He was inspirational to such musicians as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, and to later musicians such as Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and the Albion Country Band (the last two bands that included him as a member for a time).
Her mother is also deserving of that much overused expression ‘Living Legend.’ She was a founder member of The Watersons, one of Britain’s premier traditional folk-singing outfits, together with her brother Mike and her sister Lal. She has been singing ever since and whilst I prefer to eschew Americanisms when discussing something so quintessentially British, if there was a “First Lady” of British Folk music, she would undoubtedly be it.
Unsurprisingly Eliza (who was born in 1975) spent her younger years playing music and recording with various members of her über-talented family. As she got older she began instigating more and more projects herself, and over the years has become one of the most important British artists of modern times. Early on her music began to transcend the rigid confines of British traditional music, and as she grew and developed as an artist, she began to assimilate more and more seemingly incongruent influences into her music, until her art became a multicultural synergy of sources that really defies categorisation. It seems that Eliza has given up trying to categorise herself, and just describes herself simply as a ‘Modern British Musician’, which says it all really.
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just beautiful
Been listening to Eliza for decades. She can do anything. She is her own musician though you can hear her mum in her ballad stylings. I fell in love with the Waterson family as soon as I heard them way back "in the day".
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A force of nature. Love rom 'Ull!
you make me weep, lass... thank 'ee.
I adore this video. In the sixties, when I lived in Britain for a few years, I had a collection of records of what you would probably have to qualify as field research music. It sounded something like the May Bradley song towards the end of the above video. But I liked and appreciated it for its... intrinsic value: the melodies, the lyrics, the potential I saw in it. Eliza and Eliza's family have dug up some of that, and handed the treasure down to us. I thank them for it. And I'd like to add that many of the songs Norma Waterson interpreted for me tonight in her wonderfully mellowed voice went straight to the heart. (Eliza's Restitute will do the same, I hope.)
Amazing singer/songwriter
Stunning.
eliza's auntie penned some beautiful songs. this from a man who usually listens to southern rock and ocasionally listens to eliza carthy and nancy kerr..[but liza sometimes rocks; don't see her standing still. i don't think she can when she's playing].