The Wayward Tour Live

Following on from Wayward Daughter Eliza Carthy's double-CD Best Of set, The Wayward Tour Live is a CD and DVD (mainly static long and medium views, plus a few close-ups) recorded at Union Chapel in London and Saltaire, with Jim Moray in the front line. Carthy's notes express a sense of finding a kindred spirit in waywardness in Moray's own eclectic, wide-ranging mix of folk, pop and electronica, all of which have surfaced in his albums over the past 13 years.

They have a big, brassy 11-strong band behind them, packing the same kind of live punch that Bellowhead do. Indeed, Bellowhead's Sam Sweeney features among the line-up, alongside Lucy Farrell, Bethany Porter, Saul Rose and Barnaby Stradling. It's great to hear Carthy favourites like ‘Turpin Hero’ arranged by a big band like this. It starts off with an ebullient ‘Gallant Hussar’, which Carthy describes as ‘the happiest song in the world.’ Given Britain's seafaring status, it's no wonder the English folk tradition is packed with rolling-gaited sailors and wave-ploughing ships. And so is this selection, with ‘Rolling Sea’, ‘Great Grey Back’ and the closing ‘Diego's Bold Shore’ are standouts in a visceral and energetic live set.