Red Rice is a double album by English folk musician Eliza Carthy, released in 1998.
[4][5] It was a nominee for the 1998 Mercury Music Prize.
The Chicago Reader called Carthy "a great instrumentalist and an expressive singer who can straddle the generational divide with soul and beauty.
"[7] The Sydney Morning Herald deemed the album the "cutting edge of contemporary English folk music.
"[3] AllMusic wrote that "Red is electric folk-fusion mixed with modern modes, while Rice uses more traditional means with subtler modernization.