GORDON PARSONS recommends an entertaining account of the years between Germany’s defeat in WWI and Hitler’s seizure of power
IT SEEMS impossible that Eliza Carthy has been around long enough for a comeback, let alone a 21st anniversary celebration.
But her latest release is a bit of both. The Wayward Tour (Scarlet Records), a live DVD and CD of Carthy’s 2013 gigs alongside Jim Moray, doesn’t just celebrate her performing career, it also showcases her return from the throat problems that have dogged her in recent years, resurfacing in 2012 and forcing her to put this tour back by a year.
She writes in the liner notes of suffering some “very dark” times but there’s no trace of that in this rollicking ramble through the highlights of her back catalogue.
New releases from Old Spot, Chris Marksberry, and Clementine Lovell
New releases from Ninebarrow, Amit Dattani, and Lonan
STEVE JOHNSON relishes a celebration of the commonality of folk music and its links with the struggles of working people the world over
TOM STONE sings the praises of one of the oldest open-air festivals in Britain



