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Artist:
COLLINS, SHIRLEY
Title:
Adieu To Old England
Label:
FLEDG'LING (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
FLED 3023CD
Released by Fledg'ling in 1999, originally released on Topic. Another classic
Shirley Collins
recording, this time from 1974 and long out-of-print. Beautiful interpretations of Southern English songs and toasts with some fine arrangements by
Dolly Collins
. Featuring Shirley Collins with
Albion Morris Men
(dancing); Dolly Collins (flute organ);
John Harrington
(concertina);
Ian Holder
(accordion);
Bill Molan
(melodeon);
Simon Nicol
(electric guitar);
Terry Potter
(mouth organ);
Geoff Singleton
(fiddle);
Bob Stewart
(plucked psaltery);
Roger Swallow
(drums);
John Watcham
(Anglo concertina);
Bill Molan
,
Geoff Singleton & John Harrington
(vocals & percussion).
Artist:
COLLINS, SHIRLEY
Title:
The Power Of The True Love Knot
Label:
FLEDG'LING (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
FLED 3028CD
Released by Fledg'ling in 2000. This classic 1967 recording finally appears on CD. Produced by
Joe Boyd
with exquisite arrangements by
Dolly Collins
and contributions from
Robin Williamson
and
Mike Heron
of
The Incredible String Band
, and
Bram Martin
(cellist on
The Beatles
' "Eleanor Rigby"). The songs on this record belong to ladies fair and tender, the ballad-heroines with lily hands, riding through meadows distracted, saving or losing their virtue, getting pregnant, eloping with gypsies, dying of remorse, twined in the True-Lover's Knot.
Shirley Collins
(vocals, banjo, dulcimer); Dolly Collins (pipe organ); Bram Martin (cello); Robin Williamson (tin whistle, chanter, percussion); Mike Heron (percussion).
Artist:
COLLINS, SHIRLEY
Title:
False True Lovers
Label:
FLEDG'LING (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
FLED 3029CD
Released by Fledg'ling in 2001.
Shirley Collins
' debut album (and probably her rarest),
False True Lovers
was first released in 1959 on the prestigious Folkways label and was previously never released outside of North America. With the help of Washington's Smithsonian Institute, the label was able to return to the original
Alan Lomax
-produced tapes to produce this sparkling transfer to CD. Recorded when Shirley was just eighteen,
False True Lovers
is a stunning collection of British and American traditional song, capturing a turning moment in the English folk song revival of the 1950s.
Artist:
COLLINS, SHIRLEY
Title:
Sweet England
Label:
FLEDG'LING (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
FLED 3080CD
"Sweet England,
along with its sister album
False True Lovers
(FLED 3029CD), was recorded in the spring of 1958 when I was twenty-two years old. I had been living for the previous two years in London with
Alan Lomax
, the American folklorist, working for him as editorial assistant on his book
The Folk Songs of North America
and on his field recordings from America, Great Britain, Italy and Spain. The tracks that make up these two albums were recorded by
Peter Kennedy
and Alan in two days at Peter's home 'studio' in Belsize Park. English traditional music, at its best, expresses and provides everything in song that I need and feel, both musically and emotionally.
Sweet England
represents the first shaky steps of a journey that I have been on all my life, and that, happily, I still am
." --
Shirley Collins
from the new sleeve-notes.
Fledg'ling Records are very proud to present a remastered edition of this classic recording from the infancy of the mid-20th century folk revival. Guest musicians are
Guy Carawan
,
Ralph Rinzler
and
John Hasted
.
Sweet England
is a stunning collection of British and American traditional song, capturing a turning moment in the English folk song revival of the 1950s. Including a stunning, new digipak design with new sleevenotes from Shirley Collins.
Artist:
COLLINS, SHIRLEY
Title:
The Sweet Primeroses
Label:
TOPIC (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
TSCD 476
1995 reissue of these early recordings, from 1963-67. "These limpid versions of Southern English songs established Shirley Collins as a unique and influential voice on the folk scene. A landmark recording of the English folk-song revival. For the first time the fragile beauty of Shirley Collins' singing, sister Dolly's sensitive settings for portative pipe-organ and the two sisters' remarkable empathy for southern English folk song were united in one glorious recording." Includes the original 1967 Topic LP, plus 4 bonus tracks from the 1963
Heroes In Love
EP. Shirley Collins (vocals), Dolly Collins (pipe-organ), The Young Tradition (chorus).
Artist:
COLLINS, SHIRLEY
Title:
False True Lovers
Label:
VINYL LOVERS (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
Format:
LP
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
VL 900762LP
180 gram vinyl. "One of the key voices in British folk,
False True Lovers
was Shirley Collins debut album, recorded in 1959 for Smithsonian Folkways when Collins (who had just spent time collecting field recordings with the legendary Alan Lomax all around the American South) was just 23. This album, a collection of a cappella British and Irish folk songs helped paved the way for the British folk revival of the 1960s, when Collins, by this time married to Ashley Hutchings, helped introduce bands like Pentangle, Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span to more traditional fare. A masterpiece of the genre!"
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