Our pick of the week.
Martin Carthy - Along The Road Forever: Live At The BBC
Limited 20-CD set with live & session performances recorded for the BBC over a 57 year period.
Includes 80-page hardback book with an essay by celebrated biographer Clinton Heylin, covering Martin's whole life in music.
Though he eschews such terms himself, few would deny that Martin Carthy MBE is the godfather of English folk - a singer, tradition bearer and guitar stylist of colossal quality and influence with 60 years of celebrated recorded work as a solo artist, as a duettist with Dave Swarbrick and with his daughter Eliza Carthy, and as a member of ground-breaking ensembles Steeleye Span, the Albion Country Band, Brass Monkey, the Watersons, Waterson: Carthy & Wood, Wilson, Carthy.
All of these collaborations and more are represented in this stunning collection from Martin's extraordinarily extensive career of interactions with the British Broadcasting Corporation - as a studio session guest and concert performer over a span of 1965-2022, across BBC Radios 1, 2, 3 & 4 and BBC television, with early performances from 1960s regional channel ABC TV as a bonus.
What survives of Martin's BBC output is perhaps a fraction of what once aired over the course of nearly 56 years of moments on the usually ephemeral medium of broadcasting, yet it's range and heft is remarkable - an alternative career history and testament to a truly singular artistry: 22½ hours, 328 tracks (two thirds from a master source) of which there are 237 distinct items of repertoire.
Original Sun Sound of Johnny Cash
Never released on CD, and unreleased until 1964, six years after Johnny Cash's 1958 departure from Sun for Columbia Records, Original Sun Sound spans both his first and final recordings for the label.
The early "Wide Open Road" shows the singer still under influence of Hank Williams (as well being a rarity in featuring the steel guitar of A.W. "Red" Kernodle, who left the group shortly afterwards), but the sardonic, Charlie Rich-penned "Thanks a Lot," from one of his final Sun sessions, finds Cash beholden to no one but himself. There's also Cash's self-penned gospel song, "Belshazzar," an unusual inclusion in that his producer, Sam Phillips, usually recorded only the performer's secular material.
Johnny Cash Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous
Never released on CD, originally released in 1958 on Sun Records, Johnny Cash's second album was a smash success, with singles such as "I Walk The Line", "Guess Things Happen That Way", and "Ballad of a Teenage Queen" shooting to the top of the charts and earning Cash a reputation as one of country's greatest songwriters and performers.
The Man In Black is accompanied by Luther Perkins and Marshall Grant, known at the time as The Tennessee Two. The album was produced by Sun Records founder, Sam Phillips, and Jack Clement.
Johnny Cash With His Hot and Blue Guitar
All legends start somewhere, and With His Hot and Blue Guitar is where the legend of Johnny Cash began. Newly remastered in honor of Sun Records' 70th Anniversary, Cash's debut album was also the first LP issued by Sam Phillips on the legendary label. The Man in Black is backed by the Tennessee Two on classic Cash hits like "Folsom Prison Blues," "Cry, Cry, Cry" and "I Walk the Line."
Four Tops Live! - The Complete Performance
Deluxe edition of Four Tops Live! (1966), remastered from the original tapes and expanded to include all performances from the historic Motown Monday shows at Detroit's Roostertail. Features previously unreleased tracks, alternate versions, and a bonus instrumental by The Funk Brothers.
Includes original and new liner notes by Scott Regen plus rare archival photos. An essential release celebrating one of Motown's most electrifying live recordings.
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