Ok..Track 3, from the inside cover.. "Martin Carthy ( a renowned folk singer and sometime member of the great Steeleye Span); and family side project, Blue Murder, which also includes Norma's brother, Mike (Norma, Mike and sister Lal began their folk careers as The Watersons, whose richly textured vocal harmonies became popular during the 1960's and 70's) The first of these performances is 'Black Muddy River' by Waterson-Carthy, which features Norma Waterson singing lead, Martin Carthy playing guitar, Eliza on fiddle and Tim van Eyken, of Dr. Faustus on melodeon. A performance of this song was anonymously sent to Martin and Norma on a cassette tape, some years ago and they only discovered who had written it whilst recording the song for Norma's first solo album - surprisingly, 'Black Muddy Water' was a song by the American band The Grateful Dead, written by the band's singer Jerry Carcia and Robert Hunter. This beautiful performance demonstrates how easily a song with the right sentiment, no matter what it's origins, can become assimilated into the English folk repertoire." Black Muddy Water is what is written on the page here, but I'd presume 'Water' should actually be 'River' Well I don't know about you, but I think the information in there is way above what you would normally get on most CDs. :0)
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