Shearwater (album) explained

Shearwater
Type:	studio album
Artist:	Martin Carthy
Cover:	Martin Carthy - Shearwater.jpg
Released:	1972
Recorded:	1972
Genre:	Folk
Label:	Pegasus, Mooncrest, Castle Music
Producer:	Terry Brown
Prev Title:	Landfall
Prev Year:	1971
Next Title:	Sweet Wivelsfield
Next Year:	1974

Shearwater is an album by Martin Carthy, released in 1972 on the Pegasus label as PEG12. It was re-released on vinyl in 1973/74 by Mooncrest as CREST25. The album was re-issued on CD in 1995, by Mooncrest, as CRESTCD 008 and then again, in March 2005 by Castle Music, as CMQCD1096.^[1]

Track listing

All songs Traditional; arranged by Martin Carthy

1. "I Was a Young Man" (Roud 1572) – 2:46
2. "Banks of Green Willow" (Roud 172; Child 24) – 4:31
3. "Handsome Polly-O" (Roud 545) – 2:31
4. "Outlandish Knight" (Roud 21; Child 4) – 5:25
5. "He Called for a Candle" (Roud 269, Laws K43)– 2:49
6. "John Blunt" (Roud 115; Child 275) – 3:25
7. "Lord Randall" (Roud 10; Child 12) – 4:34
8. "William Taylor" (Roud 158; Laws N11) – 3:42
9. "Famous Flower of Serving Men" (Roud 199; Child 106) – 9:23
10. "Betsy Bell and Mary Gray" (Roud 237; Child 201) – 1:33

Additional tracks on the 2005 Castle CD

The Castle CD reissue has three bonus tracks from the BBC Radio 1 John Peel session recorded on 22 May 1972 at the Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Avenue, London, broadcast on 30 May 1972:

1. "The False Lover Won Back" (Roud 201; Child 218) - 4.12
2. "King Henry" (Roud 3867; Child 32) - 5.42
3. "Trimdon Grange" (Roud 3189) - 4.06

Personnel

• Martin Carthy – vocals, guitar, dulcimer
• Maddy Prior – vocals on "Betsy Bell and Mary Gray"
• uncredited – drone on "William Taylor"

Technical

• Terry Brown - producer (for September Productions Ltd)
• Jerry Boys - engineer
• David Berney Wade - art direction, design

Notes and References

1. Web site: Martin Carthy: Shearwater . mainlynorfolk.info . 13 June 2013.