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Eliza Carthy: Red Rice

Red Rice (Topic TSCD2001)

Red Rice
Eliza Carthy
Topic Records TSCD2001 (Limited edition 2 CD set, UK, 1998)

fRoots Critics Poll Album of the Year 1998

This 2 CD set consists of:

Red (Topic TSCD493)

Red
Eliza Carthy
Topic Records TSCD493 (CD, UK, 1998)

Rice
Eliza Carthy
Topic Records TSCD494 (CD, UK, 1998)

Rice (Topic TSCD494)
RedRice

Produced and engineered by Niall Macauley
Engineered by Steve Meadows
Recorded at Castle Hill Studios, Ewloe, Flintshire
Mixed and digitally edited at 6T4K, Broughton St., Edinburgh
Photography by Tom Howard
Digital graphic design by John Haxby, Art Surgery, Edinburgh

Recorded and mixed at Panda Sound, Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire
Engineered by Olly Knight
Produced by Eliza Carthy and the rest of the world
Photography by Tom Howard
Digital graphic design by John Haxby, Art Surgery, Edinburgh

Musicians

RedRice

Eliza Carthy: fiddle, vocals, one-row accordion, keyboards;
Martin Green: piano accordion, keyboards;
Barnaby Stradling: electric & acoustic bass, percussion, Moog synthesiser;
Sam Thomas: drums percussion, Moog synthesiser;
Ed Boyd: acoustic guitar;
Olly Knight: electric guitar;
Shack & Paul: programming;
Lucy Adams: backing vocals;
Rory McLeod: harmonica;
Andy Thornburn: guest keyboards

Eliza Carthy: fiddle, viola, piano, djembe, vocals;
Saul Rose: melodeon, one-row accordion, vocals;
Ed Boyd: acoustic guitar, bouzouki;
Eleanor Waterson: vocals;
Lucy Adams: feet, clogs, vocals;
Billericay Fontenot: guitar, vocals;
Thorngumbold Fontenot: vocals

Tracks

RedRice
  1. Accordion Song (Accidental Saturday Night Kitchen Mix) (4.50)
  2. 10, 000 Miles (Roud 422) (3.04)
  3. Billy Boy (Roud 326) / The Widow's Wedding (5.04)
  4. Time in the Son (3.28)
  5. Stumbling On (3.39)
  6. Stingo / The Stacking Reel (6.13)
  7. Greenwood Laddie (Roud 2123) / Mrs Capron's Reel / Tune (6.02)
  8. Walk Away (3.35)
  9. Adieu, Adieu (Roud 490; Laws L12) (4.34)
  10. Russia (Call Waiting) (5.56)
  11. Red Rice (4.22)

Tracks 1, 4, 10 E. Carthy
Track 2 trad. arr. E. Carthy
Track 3, 6a trad. arr. E. Carthy, S. Thomas, B. Stradling, M. Green, N. Macauley, O. Knight
Track 5 Lal Waterson, Oliver Knight
Track 6b Kathryn Tickell pub Coquetdale Music
Track 7a trad. arr. E. Carthy, B. Stradling
Track 7b Nancy Kerr pub Fellsongs
Track 7c, 9 trad. arr. E. Carthy, S. Thomas, B. Stradling, M. Green, N. Macauley
Track 8 Ben Harper pub EMI / Virgin
Track 11 E. Carthy, Shack, Paul
All tracks pub Topic Records unless otherwise noted

  1. Blow the Winds (Roud 11; Child 112) / The Game of Draughts (7.50)
  2. The Snow It Melts the Soonest (Roud 3154) (3.29)
  3. Picking up Sticks / The Old Mole / Felton Lonnin / Kingston Girls (4.50)
  4. Miller and the Lass (2.02)
  5. Herring Song (Roud 128) (4.40)
  6. Mons Meg (5.26)
  7. Tuesday Morning (Roud 579) (2.55)
  8. Haddock and Chips (2.44)
  9. The Americans Have Stolen My True Love Away (Roud 587) (4.48)
  10. Zycanthos Jig / Tommy's Foot / Quebecois (6.14)
  11. The Sweetness of Mary / Holywell Hornpipe / Swedish (6.44)
  12. Benjamin Bowmaneer (Roud 1514) (4.23)
  13. Commodore Moore / The Black Dance / A Andy O (3.36)

Track 1a trad. arr. E. Carthy, E. Boyd
Tracks 1b, 3d, 8, 10b E. Carthy
Tracks 2, 3ab, 11 trad. arr. E. Carthy, Saul Rose
Tracks 3c, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10c, 13 trad. arr. E. Carthy, Saul Rose, E. Boyd
Track 6 Pipe Major Geo S. Maclennan
Track 10a Roger Wilson
Track 12 trad. arr. E. Carthy
All tracks pub Topic Records unless otherwise noted