Good Looking Laborer: Eliza Carthy and "Pretty Ploughboy"

Eliza Carthy brings us today's random tune, called Pretty Ploughboy. Known for her singing and fiddle playing, Eliza Carthy comes from a musical heritage as the daughter of folk musicians Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson. At the age of thirteen, she formed The Waterdaughters with her mother, aunt Lal Waterson and cousin Marry Waterson. She was part of the group Waterson-Carthy with her parents, worked with Nancy Kerr, and was in the "supergroup" Blue Murder. For her contributions to English folk music, she named to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2014. She has put out twelve solo albums, in addition to three with Nancy Kerr, and fourteen with Waterson-Carthy. Pretty Ploughboy can be found on her 2002 album Anglicana, and was nominated for a BBC Radio 3 Folk Award in 2003, the year in which she won BBC Radio 2's Folk Singer of the Year, Best Album (for Anglicana) and Best Traditional Song (for Worcester City, another song on the Anglicana album). In fact, she was the first person to be nominated for both BBC Radio 2's Folk Award and BBC 3's Award for World Music in the same year.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Carthy