Saturday, 9 June 2018

Norma Waterson & Eliza Carthy - Anchor


Rating: 5/5

Review:
Another cracker from two greats


Anchor is terrific – but then, what else did we expect?  Norma and Eliza represent two generations of the very finest in English folk music and they have produced another cracker here.

The music is varied, with a good number of traditional songs and some less obvious but extremely successful versions of fine songs by Tom Waits, Nick Lowe and others. As you'd expect from these two, they are respectful to the originals but often very adventurous in their arrangements and treatments.  The musicianship and singing is, of course, first rate and it's a very fine album all round.

Anyone with an interest in folk music at the moment will know that anything by these two is going to be special (especially after the brilliance of Gift) and won’t need me to recommend an album by these two giants – but I do.  It's terrific stuff.

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