2011 live release from this British Folk band featuring Norma Waterson, Eliza Carthy, Martin Carthy, Phil Alexander and Aidan Curran. Earlier this year Norma and her daughter Eliza recorded the album Gift. Now, mother and daughter were on stage together, mixing songs from Gift with material from Norma"s solo albums. With Martin Carthy (Norma"s husband/Eliza"s father) hidden behind them, playing guitar and banjo in the backing band, they began with the traditional "The Chaps of Cockaigny", Eliza providing fiddle backing. They then branched out, from the tragic ballad "Boston Burglar", a favorite of Norma"s grandmother, to the novelty song "Ukulele Lady", treated with rousing harmonies and Jazz backing, and the slow and emotional "Dreaming", which Loudon Wainwright wrote for Norma. The finest songs were left to the end. Norma"s gloriously tuneful weepie "Bunch of Thyme", Eliza"s charming "Prairie Lullaby" and the finale, "Over the Rainbow", were reminders that this duo can transform even the most well-worn, sentimental songs with their no-nonsense, soulful singing. Scarlet.