''Red Rice'' is a double album by English folk musician
Eliza Carthy
Eliza Amy Forbes Carthy, MBE (born 23 August 1975) is an English folk musician known for both singing and playing the fiddle. She is the daughter of English folk musicians Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson.
Life and career
Carthy was born i ...
, released in 1998. It was a nominee for the 1998
Mercury Music Prize
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.
It was subsequently released as two separate albums.
Critical reception
The ''
Chicago Reader
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'' called Carthy "a great instrumentalist and an expressive singer who can straddle the generational divide with soul and beauty."
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The Sydney Morning Herald
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'' deemed the album the "cutting edge of contemporary English folk music."
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]AllMusic
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wrote that "''Red'' is electric folk-fusion mixed with modern modes, while ''Rice'' uses more traditional means with subtler modernization."
Track listing
;Red
#"Accordion Song" - 4:50
#"10,000 Miles" - 3:04
#"Billy Boy/The Widdow's Wedding" - 5:04
#"Tim in the Sun" - 3:28
#"Stumbling On" - 3:39
#"Stingo/Stacking Reel" - 6:13
#"Greenwood Laddie/Mrs Capron's Reel/Tune" - 6:02
#"Walk Away" - 3:35
#"Adieu, Adieu" - 4:34
#"Russia (Call Waiting)" - 5:56
#"Red Rice" - 4:22
;Rice
#"Blow the Winds / The Game of Draughts" - 7:50
#"The Snow It Melts the Soonest" - 3:29
#"Picking Up Sticks / The Old Mole / Felton Lonnin / Kingston Girls" - 4:50
#"Miller and the Lass" - 4:40
#"Herring Song" - 4:40
#"Mons Meg" - 5:26
#"Tuesday Morning" - 2:55
#"Haddock and Chips" - 2:44
#"The Americans Have Stolen My True Love Away" - 4:48
#"Zycanthos Jig / Tommy's Foot / Quebecois" - 6:15
#"The Sweetness of Mary / Holwell Hornpipe / Swedish" - 6:44
#"Benjamin Bowmaneer" - 4:23
#"Commodore Moore / The Black Dance / A Andy O" - 3.36
References
1998 albums
Eliza Carthy albums
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