Because It's There
Because It's There is an album by Martin Carthy, released in 1979. It was re-issued by Topic Records on CD in 1995.
Track listing
All songs "Traditional; arranged by Martin Carthy" unless noted otherwise. The Roud number refers to the Roud index of folk songs number and the Child number is from the Child Ballad numbering.- "Nothing Rhymed" – 2:10
- "May Song" – 2:49
- "Swaggering Boney" – 2:46
- "Lord Randall" – 4:16
- "Long John, Old John and Jackie North" – 6:05
- "Jolly Tinker" – 3:01
- "Lovely Joan" – 3:14
- "Three Cripples" – 3:06
- "Siege of Delhi" – 4:18
- "Nothing Rhymed" – 1:18
- "Death of Young Andrew" – 8:37
Personnel
- Martin Carthy – vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin, electric guitar
- John Kirkpatrick – accordion, concertina
- Howard Evans – trumpet
- Bruce Rowland – percussion
- uncredited – Jew's harp
- Ashley Hutchings – production
- Jerry Boys - engineer
- Keith Morris - photography
- Kirkpatrick and Evans appeared on Carthy's Out of the Cut released in 1984, only to follow as two fifths of the band Brass Monkey.