| Norma Waterson | ||||
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| Released | 1996 | |||
| Studio | Ocean Way Studio 2, Los Angeles | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Length | 45:03 | |||
| Label | Hannibal | |||
| Producer | John Chelew | |||
| Norma Waterson chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
Norma Waterson is the debut solo studio album by Norma Waterson. [3] The album was nominated for the 1996 Mercury Music Prize and came a close second to Pulp's Different Class . [4]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Black Muddy River" | Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter | 4:19 |
| 2. | "St Swithins Day" | Billy Bragg | 2:55 |
| 3. | "God Loves a Drunk" | Richard Thompson | 4:40 |
| 4. | "The Birds Will Still Be Singing" | Elvis Costello | 2:56 |
| 5. | "There Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth the Salt of My Tears" | Fred Fisher | 2:53 |
| 6. | "Rags and Old Iron" | Oscar Brown, Jr | 4:17 |
| 7. | "Pleasure and Pain" | Ben Harper | 6:03 |
| 8. | "Hard Times Heart" | Norma Waterson | 3:18 |
| 9. | "There Is a Fountain in Christ's Blood" | Traditional | 3:47 |
| 10. | "Ana Dixie" | Lal Waterson | 3:41 |
| 11. | "Outside the Wall" | John B. Spencer, Graeme Taylor | 6:15 |
Martin Dominic Forbes Carthy MBE is an English singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in English folk music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, and later artists such as Richard Thompson, since he emerged as a young musician in the early days of the folk revival in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s.
Eliza Amy Forbes Carthy, MBE 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.
The Watersons were an English folk group from Hull, Yorkshire. They performed mainly traditional songs with little or no accompaniment. Their distinctive sound came from their closely woven harmonies. They have been called the "most famous family in English folk music".
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Norma Christine Waterson was an English singer and songwriter, best known as one of the original members of The Watersons, a celebrated English traditional folk group. Other members of the group included her brother Mike Waterson and sister Lal Waterson, a cousin John Harrison and, in later incarnations of the group, her husband Martin Carthy.
The Albion Band, also known as The Albion Country Band, The Albion Dance Band, and The Albion Christmas Band, is a British folk rock band, originally brought together and led by musician Ashley Hutchings. An important grouping in the genre, it has contained or been associated with a large proportion of major English folk performers in its long and fluid history.
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Kathryn Williams is an English singer-songwriter who to date has released 14 studio albums, written and arranged for a multitude of artists, and was nominated for the 2000 Mercury Music Prize.
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fRoots was a specialist music magazine published in the UK between 1979 and 2019. It specialised in folk and world music, and featured regular compilation downloadable albums, with occasional specials. In 2006, the circulation of the magazine was 12,000 worldwide.
"River Man" is the second listed song from Nick Drake's 1969 album Five Leaves Left. According to Drake's manager, Joe Boyd, Drake thought of the song as the centrepiece of the album. In 2004 the song was remastered and released as a 7" vinyl and as enhanced CD single including a video to the song by Tim Pope.
Blue Murder is an occasional English folk supergroup, consisting at various times of various members of Swan Arcade, Coope Boyes and Simpson, Waterson–Carthy and The Watersons.
Clive James Gregson is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. He has toured in bands, provided backup for well-known musicians, and written songs that have been covered by Kim Carnes, Norma Waterson and Nanci Griffith. He is featured in Hugh Gregory's 2002 book 1,000 Great Guitarists.
Maria Gilhooley, who records under the name Marry Waterson, is a singer, songwriter and visual artist. A member of the Waterson-Knight-Carthy family musical dynasty, Waterson is described as having "thrived on communal music making while developing highly original and distinctly English performance styles of [her] own."
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Anglicana is an album by English folk musician Eliza Carthy. It was the winner of the "Best Album" category of the 2003 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, and was nominated for the 2003 Mercury Music Prize, but lost to Dizzee Rascal's Boy in Da Corner.
Bright Phoebus, fully titled Bright Phoebus: Songs by Lal & Mike Waterson, is a folk rock album by Lal and Mike Waterson. It was recorded in May 1972 with musical assistance from various well-known members of the British folk rock scene. The album failed to make an impact on its original release, but it was subsequently championed by many musicians, including Billy Bragg, Arcade Fire, Richard Hawley and Jarvis Cocker. For years the album was difficult to obtain. In 2017, a re-release of Bright Phoebus was announced and shortly thereafter pulled from the market for legal reasons.
The Rails is an English folk rock duo from London, England, composed of husband and wife James Walbourne and Kami Thompson. Thompson and Walbourne first met during the recording sessions for Versatile Heart by Thompson's mother Linda Thompson in 2007. The band signed to Island Records in January 2014 and released their debut album on 5 May 2014 on the label's Pink Label imprint, the first band to do so since the 1970s.
Gift is the first joint album released by mother-and-daughter English folk music duo Eliza Carthy and Norma Waterson. It was the winner of the Best Album category of the 2011 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, where its opening track "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" also won Best Traditional Track.
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