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Martin & Eliza Carthy - The Wife of Usher's Well 2001

Traditional (Child ballad #79)  
 

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enrico0094 (5 months ago) Show Hide
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Oh...so good to see this posted on YouTube - thank you very much mnemonyxx. I saw this on "Later" in 2001 and never forgot it - what an electrifying performance! And I hate to say it, as a lifelong Steeleye fan, that this beats the pants off the Steeleye Span recorded version...
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I am also a lifelong Steeleye fan. Steeleye made certain that another generation . . . or two or three . . . know these wonderful songs. It may have been Pierre ben Susan in a radio interview who said that he wished for years that his music was as good as traditional music. Then he realized that what came down to us were masterpieces, and he felt better about himself. Martin's is legendary music will be preserved through technology. Steeleye + Martin have saved a heritage.
enrico0094 (4 months ago) Show Hide
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Very good point - and I'd probably have never listened to any of these songs if it hadn't been for Steeleye, who then introduced me to Martin's mastery via "Please To See The King", so it all comes around :)
SlightlySusan (4 months ago) Show Hide
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Thanks. Love Martin and have seen both Martin and Steeleye in concert.
LarkaBelaqua (1 year ago) Show Hide
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This is a truly great song, and a great version. Martin is so gifted, one of my favourite singers (I know it's constricting, but it's true,) but that makes me envious I would love to be that good at singing and an instrument ,who wouldn't be.
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This is a truly brilliant song. When I read the lyrics and listened to the tune it sent a chill up my spine. Very haunting indeed.

On a side note I think all traditional ENGLISH songs should be by used in schools whether it be in nursery rhyme form for the younger kids, in short or in full, we need to keep these songs being sung, and stop them from fading out like I feel our culture is.
acpsev (1 year ago) Show Hide
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Very beautiful song and very beautiful performance.
abigor1989 (2 years ago) Show Hide
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morris dancing needs to become more famous, it is becoming a lost art
themightymorrismuss (11 months ago) Show Hide
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it isn't becoming a lost art
plenty of people do it
it just needs to be promoted more
treelady3 (2 years ago) Show Hide
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with morris dancers! at least for about two seconds...

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