a couple of ideas from www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=12331 "Date: 20 Oct 08 - 11:09 AM I interviewed Mike for my radio show the day after his birthday in January this year. He told me that the story came from a newspaper cutting which he saw in a newspaper column called "This America" which he had read years ago and it stuck in his mind. Mike said the column was in the Daily Telegraph. (I think it is in fact the Daily Mail but since I get neither…..) He wrote the song thirty years afterwards from his memory of that article and sang it to Martin Carthy as … read more
a couple of ideas from www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=12331 "Date: 20 Oct 08 - 11:09 AM I interviewed Mike for my radio show the day after … read more
a couple of ideas from www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=12331 "Date: 20 Oct 08 - 11:09 AM I interviewed Mike for my radio show the day after his birthday in January this year. He… read more
Martin Carthy (born May 21, 1941) is an English folk singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in British traditional music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon and later artists such as Richard Thompson since he emerged as a young musician in the early days of the folk revival. He was born in Hatfield and grew up in Hampstead, London. After training as an actor he sang in coffee bars. He became a resident at the Troubador folk club in Earls Court in the late 1950s. He joined Redd Sullivan's Thameside Four in 1961. He is a r… read more
Martin Carthy (born May 21, 1941) is an English folk singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in British traditional music, inspiring contemporaries such as… read more
Martin Carthy (born May 21, 1941) is an English folk singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in British traditional music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon and later artists su… read more