PETE CASTLE: False Waters

Pete Castle

False Waters

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Traditional English songs sung by Pete Castle on guitar with Lucy Castle, fiddle..."crisp guitar and neat vocals overlaid by Lucy Castle`s fiddle had me won over on the opener"

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Pete Castle has been performing on the English folk circuit for well over 30 years. He’s been a full time professional since 1978 and during that time he’s played at clubs and festivals all over the UK.
“Pete Castle is one of those people who seems to have been ‘always there’. A stalwart of the folk club scene and a professional, easy-going performer.” (Genevieve Tudor)
From a beginning as a teenage wanabe in the 1960s ‘beat group’ boom Pete progressed through R&B to modern folk music whilst at college studying to be a teacher. He then served his apprenticeship as floor singer and club organiser whilst gradually developing a repertoire which was almost entirely traditional songs by the time he decided to go on the road full time.
In the late 1970s there were hundreds of solo male singer-guitarists in English clubs but Pete managed to create an individual identity:
"I`m still a bit muckstruck that Pete, after all the years he`s been knocking around the folk scene, can produce such fresh and fresh sounding material and performances… (Eric Winter)
He has continued to be mainly a solo performer although over the years he has collaborated with artists as various as Dick & Sue Miles, Jez Lowe, Aroti Biswas (a Bengali singer and instrumentalist) Bing Lyle and, above all, his daughter Lucy Castle. Pete, Lucy and top Transylvanian folk star Ioan Pop formed the Anglo-Romanian super-group Popeluc in 1994 and they still get together for occasional tours.
Alongside his folk circuit work Pete is also a top name on the British storytelling scene and does a lot of work in schools.
False Waters is typical of Pete’s song work. The repertoire is mainly English but there are touches of American folksong and even a Norwegian tune to which Pete wrote new words. One track features Popeluc.
“Quite simply the album is a cracker, and not just by local standards... it mirrors quite adequately a fine view of the folk revival.... Typical of an album which will be played long after the review has been completed trying to come up with a favourite track is virtually impossible but I do find myself returning time and again to the final two songs on the collection: `Adieu to Old England`, which is imbued by Peter Wimpenny`s jaunty clarinet, and Pete`s reworking of the American anthem `The Traveller Homeward Bound`. (Dave Sutherland)

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  • False Waters is full of gems...
    author: Living Tradition

    "Since the folk revival began some singers have, of course, carried a torch for English music... Martin Carthy, Shirley Collins and Nic Jones are names that spring readily to mind.... Pete Castle is a worthy follower in that tradition. False Waters is full of gems and Pete Castle`s starting point is the English tradition.... but the English tradition is only the starting point of the album. All traditions evolve and absorb new influences, and Pete Castle has been absorbing other traditions, notably Transylvania and America.... The wild uninhibited music of Transylvania and the sedate English tradition make strange bedfellows and I hope that Pete Castle and his friends intend to work on this fusion. This is an album that will please traditionalists and satisfy those who like to see traditional music evolving and moving on."

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