Because It's There
| Because It's There | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1979 | |||
| Recorded | 1979 | |||
| Studio | Riverside Studios, London | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Length | 41:47 | |||
| Label | Topic | |||
| Producer | Ashley Hutchings | |||
| Martin Carthy chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
Because It's There is an album by Martin Carthy, released in 1979. It was re-issued by Topic Records on CD in 1995.
Track listing
[edit]All songs "Traditional; arranged by Martin Carthy" unless noted otherwise. The Roud number refers to the Roud index of folk songs number and the Child number is from the Child Ballad numbering.
- "Nothing Rhymed" (Gilbert O'Sullivan) – 2:10
- "May Song" (Roud 305) – 2:49
- "Swaggering Boney" (instrumental) – 2:46
- "Lord Randall" (Roud 10, Child 12) – 4:16
- "Long John, Old John and Jackie North" (Roud 3100, Child 251) – 6:05
- "Jolly Tinker" (Roud 863)– 3:01
- "Lovely Joan" (Roud 592)– 3:14
- "Three Cripples" (Roud 2422)– 3:06
- "Siege of Delhi" (instrumental) – 4:18
- "Nothing Rhymed" (reprise) (Gilbert O'Sullivan) – 1:18
- "Death of Young Andrew" (Roud 6740, Child 48) – 8:37
Personnel
[edit]- Martin Carthy – vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin (6), electric guitar (7)
- John Kirkpatrick – accordion (1,7,8,10), concertina (2,6)
- Howard Evans – trumpet (6,7)
- Bruce Rowland – percussion (2,9)
- uncredited – Jew's harp (6)
- Technical
- Ashley Hutchings – production
- Jerry Boys - engineer
- Keith Morris - photography
- Kirkpatrick and Evans appeared on Carthy's Out of the Cut released in 1984, only to follow as two fifths of the band Brass Monkey.