Shearwater (album)


Shearwater is an album by Martin Carthy, released in 1972 on the Pegasus label as PEG12. It was re-released on vinyl in 1973/74 by Mooncrest as CREST25. The album was re-issued on CD in 1995, by Mooncrest, as CRESTCD 008 and then again, in March 2005 by Castle Music, as CMQCD1096.

Track listing

All songs traditional.
  1. "I Was a Young Man" – 2:46
  2. "Banks of Green Willow" – 4:31
  3. "Handsome Polly-O" – 2:31
  4. "Outlandish Knight" – 5:25
  5. "He Called for a Candle" – 2:49
  6. "John Blunt" – 3:25
  7. "Lord Randall" – 4:34
  8. "William Taylor" – 3:42
  9. "Famous Flower of Serving Men" – 9:23
  10. "Betsy Bell and Mary Gray" – 1:33

    Additional tracks on the 2005 Castle CD

The Castle CD reissue has three bonus tracks from the BBC Radio 1 John Peel session recorded on 22 May 1972 at the Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Avenue, London, broadcast on 30 May 1972:
  1. "The False Lover Won Back" - 4.12
  2. "King Henry" - 5.42
  3. "Trimdon Grange" - 4.06

    Personnel