Norma Waterson and Eliza Carthy on their first mother-and-daughter album

Norma Waterson and Eliza Carthy are part of British folk music royalty, and as they release their first album as a mother-and-daughter duo, they talk to Jude RogersIt's a Saturday morning in Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire, and the sun shines through a window on to Norma Waterson's silver hair. Today, the titan of English folk music is in granny mode, in a reclining chair, a blanket over her knees. She smiles sleepily as her daughter, Eliza Carthy – five months pregnant – swoops in with ...

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