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Martin Carthy

Martin Carthy
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Martin Carthy (born May 21, 1941) is an English folk singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in British traditional music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon and later artists such as Richard Thompson since he emerged as a young musician in the early days of the folk revival. He was born in Hatfield and grew up in Hampstead, London. After training as an actor he sang in coffee bars. He became a resident at the Troubador folk club in Earls Court in the late 1950s.

Top songs

  1. Scarborough Fair
  2. High Germany
  3. Sovay
  4. The Trees They Do Grow High
  5. Lord Randall
  6. The Wind That Shakes The Barley
  7. Lovely Joan
  8. John Barleycorn
  9. Famous Flower Of Serving Men
  10. Springhill Mine Disaster
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  1. Ye Mariners All
  2. And A Begging I Will Go
  3. The Harry Lime Theme
  4. Broomfield Hill
  5. Lord Franklin
  6. The Bedmaking
  7. The Queen Of Hearts
  8. The Two Magicians
  9. Geordie
  10. The Dominion Of The Sword
  11. The Barley And The Rye
  12. The Handsome Cabin Boy
  13. Willie's Lady
  14. The Devil and the Feathery Wife
  15. Byker Hill
  16. Old Tom of Oxford
  17. Scarborough Fair (feat. Dave Swarbrick)
  18. King Henry
  19. I Sowed Some Seeds
  20. A Stitch In Time
  21. Skewbald
  22. Cold Haily Windy Night
  23. High Germany (feat. Dave Swarbrick)
  24. Brown Adam
  25. Prince Heathen
  26. Siege Of Delhi
  27. January Man
  28. Billy Boy
  29. I Was A Young Man
  30. Bill Norrie
  31. Palaces Of Gold
  32. His Name Is Andrew
  33. Company Policy
  34. The Ant and the Grasshopper
  35. Bows of London
  36. Rigs of the time
  37. Banks Of Green Willow
  38. Seven Yellow Gypsies
  39. The Banks of the Nile
  40. The Trees They Do Grow High (feat. Dave Swarbrick)
  41. Barrack Street Stroll
  42. Jolly Tinker
  43. The Bonny Black Hare
  44. The Bold Poachers
  45. Bonny Lass of Anglesey
  46. Old horse
  47. King Knapperty
  48. Poor Murdered Woman
  49. Her Servant Man
  50. Molly oxford
  51. Reynard the Fox
  52. The Broomfield Hill
  53. Here's Adieu to All Judges and Juries
  54. Rufford park poachers
  55. The song of the lower classes
  56. Jack Rowland
  57. The Sheepstealer
  58. Nothing Rhymed
  59. O'er the Hills
  60. Shepherd O Shepherd
  61. Sir Patrick Spens
  62. Sovay (feat. Dave Swarbrick)
  63. Work Life Out To Keep Life In
  64. Happiness
  65. Eggs in Her Basket
  66. All Of A Row
  67. The Bee's Wing
  68. And A-Begging I Will Go
  69. The Man of Burnham Town
  70. Lowlands of Holland
  71. Locks And Bolts
  72. Handsome Polly-O
  73. Trimdon Grange
  74. Swaggering Boney
  75. Dust to Dust
  76. Fair Maid On The Shore
  77. McVeagh
  78. Hommage a Roche Proulx
  79. Waiting For Angels
  80. Lucy Wan
  81. Sailor's Life
  82. The Worcestershire Wedding
  83. Davy Lowston
  84. Outlandish Knight
  85. Georgie
  86. The friar in the well
  87. Virginny
  88. The Foggy Dew
  89. James Hatley
  90. Cruel Mother

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