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Eliza Carthy: Strange Folk

David Burke, R2/Rock'n'Reel, May 2010

WHEN Christian Koch wrote in The Guardian earlier this year that British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin was a big fan of "that most arthritically white of genres — English folk music" and, in particular, of Eliza Carthy, he was picking on the wrong girl.

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