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Red Rice (album)

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Red Rice
Studio album by
Released1998
StudioPanda Sound, Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire
Length96:28
LabelTopic Records[1]
Eliza Carthy chronology
Red Rice
(1998)
Angels & Cigarettes
(2000)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Sydney Morning Herald[3]

Red Rice is a double album by English folk musician Eliza Carthy, released in 1998.[4][5] It was a nominee for the 1998 Mercury Music Prize.[6]

It was subsequently released as two separate albums.

Critical reception

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The Chicago Reader called Carthy "a great instrumentalist and an expressive singer who can straddle the generational divide with soul and beauty."[7] The Sydney Morning Herald deemed the album the "cutting edge of contemporary English folk music."[3]

AllMusic wrote that "Red is electric folk-fusion mixed with modern modes, while Rice uses more traditional means with subtler modernization."[2]

Track listing

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Red
  1. "Accordion Song" - 4:50
  2. "10,000 Miles" - 3:04
  3. "Billy Boy/The Widdow's Wedding" - 5:04
  4. "Tim in the Sun" - 3:28
  5. "Stumbling On" - 3:39
  6. "Stingo/Stacking Reel" - 6:13
  7. "Greenwood Laddie/Mrs Capron's Reel/Tune" - 6:02
  8. "Walk Away" - 3:35
  9. "Adieu, Adieu" - 4:34
  10. "Russia (Call Waiting)" - 5:56
  11. "Red Rice" - 4:22
Rice
  1. "Blow the Winds / The Game of Draughts" - 7:50
  2. "The Snow It Melts the Soonest" - 3:29
  3. "Picking Up Sticks / The Old Mole / Felton Lonnin / Kingston Girls" - 4:50
  4. "Miller and the Lass" - 4:40
  5. "Herring Song" - 4:40
  6. "Mons Meg" - 5:26
  7. "Tuesday Morning" - 2:55
  8. "Haddock and Chips" - 2:44
  9. "The Americans Have Stolen My True Love Away" - 4:48
  10. "Zycanthos Jig / Tommy's Foot / Quebecois" - 6:15
  11. "The Sweetness of Mary / Holwell Hornpipe / Swedish" - 6:44
  12. "Benjamin Bowmaneer" - 4:23
  13. "Commodore Moore / The Black Dance / A Andy O" - 3.36

References

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  1. ^ Nickson, Chris. "Eliza Carthy". Wired – via www.wired.com.
  2. ^ a b "Red Rice - Eliza Carthy | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  3. ^ a b Elder, Bruce (7 December 1998). "Folk". The Sydney Morning Herald. The Guide. p. 8.
  4. ^ "A profile of Eliza Carthy". The Guardian. 26 April 2005.
  5. ^ Sweers, Britta (13 January 2005). Electric Folk: The Changing Face of English Traditional Music. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-515878-6 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ "Eliza Carthy Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  7. ^ Margasak, Peter (9 December 1999). "Waterson:Carthy". Chicago Reader.