Essential

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Scarborough Fair
  3:29
• 2
  Broomfield Hill
  2:53
• 3
  Lord Franklin
  3:39
• 4
  Byker Hill
  2:59
• 5
  The Bee's Wing
  2:13
• 6
  Poor Murdered Woman
  2:52
• 7
  Seven Yellow Gypsies
  5:15
• 8
  Prince Heathen
  6:58
• 9
  January Man
  3:17
• 10
  His Name Is Andrew
  5:15
• 11
  King Henry
  6:21
• 12
  Skewbald
  3:42
• 13
  The Bedmaking
  3:15
• 14
  Geordie
  3:41
• 15
  Lovely Joan
  3:13
• 16
  Siege of Delhi
  4:20
• 17
  The Prickle Holly Bush
  4:08
• 18
  I Sowed Some Seeds
  3:09
• CD 2
• 1
  The Devil & The Feathery Wife
  5:01
• 2
  The Maid and the Palmer
  5:35
• 3
  Sovay
  3:51
• 4
  The Dominion of the Sword
  3:40
• 5
  Bill Norrie
  5:18
• 6
  A Stitch in Time
  2:50
• 7
  Work Life Out to Keep Life In
  2:46
• 8
  A Question of Sport
  3:43
• 9
  Rackabello
  3:51
• 10
  Sir Patrick Spens
  5:39
• 11
  Georgie
  3:18
• 12
  Famous Flower of Serving Men
  10:18
• 13
  Mermaid
  4:20
• 14
  The Maid of Australia
  5:12
• 15
  Christ Made a Trance
  2:37
• 16
  The Harry Lime Theme
  3:34

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Signs of Life

Signs of Life 1998

Shearwater

Shearwater 1972

Transform Me Then Into a Fish

Transform Me Then Into a Fish 2025

An Introduction to Martin Carthy

An Introduction to Martin Carthy 2018

Live at the Pavilion

Live at the Pavilion 2018

The Moral of the Elephant

The Moral of the Elephant 2014

Release credits

• Bruce Rowland
  membranophone [16]
• Eliza Carthy
  fiddle [10], violin [10]
• Howard Evans
  trumpet [15]
• John Kirkpatrick
  accordion [15]
• Martin Carthy
  arranger [10], guitar [10], producer [10-11], vocal [10]
• Oliver Knight
  producer [10-11]

Issues

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  Essential

  2x CD
  9 May 2011