Martin Carthy - Scarborough Fair (15/11/22) 

Lovely to hear Martin-tho it’s too bad his comments are hard to understand. I heard him sing the more famous version in 1965, when I was an American college student taking a year off. I lived in Judith Piepe’s apartment at 6 Dellow House, in London’s East End, when Paul Simon was also staying there. Art Garfunkel arrived sometime later. Arty, as Judith called him, asked me to show him Martin’s chords to the more well-known version of Scarborough Fair. What a wonderful privilege that year was! --Caroline Culpepper Staples

Wonderful. If you ever meet Martin in person, he is the politest most humble person you could ever hope to meet, not to mention his absolutely HUGE contribution to English Folk music. I hold him in the highest respect. And I never forget, he showed his version of this song (I know its original source) to one struggling Paul Simon who went on to make $$$$$$ out of it - and never gave Martin a penny.

I did a warm up for Martin in the 90s at the tontyne hotel in Ironbridge, I wonder if he remembers, I was playing classical guitar. Lovely man.

Hello Martin.Great to hear you again.

that's really beautiful.

A wonderful rendition!

thank you for the video ... shame I can't really hear much of what he's saying ...

Fantastic!

he starts the song around 6:47

Wow

This are the version that pits a ghost to rest

I wonder what he tought when Sea shanties became popular again

Martin sings like a bard, doesn't he？