WATERSON:CARTHY COMMON TONGUE TSDL488 WATERSON:CARTHY COMMON TONGUE TOPIC TSDL488 002 www.topicrecords.co.uk WATERSON:CARTHY COMMON TONGUE TOPIC TSDL488 003 www.topicrecords.co.uk WATERSON:CARTHY COMMON TONGUE TOPIC TSDL488 004 www.topicrecords.co.uk WATERSON:CARTHY COMMON TONGUE 1 Rambleaway / Valentine Waltz 4:35 Norma Waterson : vocal 2 Claudy Banks 6:45 Martin Carthy : vocal, guitar, mandolin Eliza Carthy : vocal, fiddle 3 Rackabello 3:48 4 Lowlands Of Holland 4:44 Saul Rose : melodeon 5 Grand March In The Battle Of Prague / Liverpool Hornpipe Maclaine Colston : hammered dulcimer Barnaby Stradling : bass Wellington Hornpipe 5:26 Lal Waterson, Maria Gilhooley, Mike Waterson & Eleanor Waterson : vocals 6 Meeting Is A Pleasure 3:53 7 Hares In The Old Plantation 4:03 Produced by Tony Engle 8 Flash Company 3:05 There are plenty of bands and individuals playing Scots and Irish music and, indeed, we 9 Maid Lamenting 5:10 ourselves have sung, and do sing, stuff which clearly derives from Scotland and Ireland 10 American Stranger 3:18 whence our families originally came, but this is deliberately an album of English music, a repertoire often ignored but which has balls (or its excellently named female counterpart 11 French Stroller 2:21 ‘clitzpah’) enough for anyone. Having said that, the musical instinct is far too inclusive to 12 Polly’s Love 4:40 allow any notions of ‘purity’ to survive for long, and it is neither possible nor desirable to set 13 Stars In My Crown 2:59 up musical border checkpoints anywhere. However, there is that elusive and ever chang- ing thing called identity. This album is respectfully dedicated to two mighty human beings, both of whom died in 1996, both of whom cleaved passionately to notions of ‘Englishness’, but who would, I think, have been disdainful of any ideas of exclusivity: Dennis Potter and This recording ℗1997 Topic Records Ltd. ©1997 Topic Records Ltd. Walter Pardon. - Martin Carthy This digital booklet ℗2013 Topic Records Ltd. ©2013 Topic Records Ltd. The copyright in this sound recording and digital booklet is owned by Topic Records Ltd. All rights reserved. TOPIC TSDL488 005 www.topicrecords.co.uk.