This well-packaged two-CD boxed set was sitting around in Lucy's office. It had been sent there for review, but it's not the kind of thing that magazine reviews very often, if ever (see similar instances). So Lucy liberated it, and brought it home, where I could be counted it on to treat it more sympathetically. Slightly.
One year when the Boy's a bit older, it might be quite fun to do the full Sidmouth Folk Week. Ten years ago, D and I tried to combine a traditional family holiday (staying with her boys in a farm cottage a few miles up the road) with me making occasional excursions to the festival. I enjoyed those two evenings and an afternoon, but as a whole thing it wasn't one of our more successful ideas. There are a couple of recordings from the 2001 festival on these CDs, but I can't be certain whether I was present for them. I definitely saw Blue Murder, which is Waterson:Carthy spliced with Coope, Boyes & Simpson and then extended a bit further, so maybe I saw Norma Waterson sing There Ain't No Sweet Man that's Worth the Salt of my Tears, and maybe I saw Waterson:Carthy sing When I First Came to Caledonia — but quite possible I saw neither.
Unsurprisingly, the collection depends most on Martin Carthy and Nic Jones, followed by Ralp McTell and Show of Hands. Between them are sprinkled some young (at the time) names, a couple of interlopers from across the water, some dance tunes, memories of sixties folk revival and seventies folk-rock, plus the singular June Tabor.
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