Shirley Collins

Shirley & Dolly Collins - The Harvest Years (2008)




TrackList:

CD 1

01. A Beginning
02. A Meeting - Searching For Lambs
03. A Courtship - The Wedding Song
04. A Denying - The Blacksmth
05. A Forsaking - Our Captain Cried
06. A Dream - Lowlands
07. A Leave-taking
08. An Awakening - Whitsun Dance
09. New Beginning - The Staines Morris
10. Rambleway
11. Ca' The Yowes
12. God Dog
13. Bonny Cuckoo
14. Nellie The Milkmaid
15. Gathering Rushes In The Month Of May
16. The Gower Wassail
17. Sailor From Dover
18. Young John
19. Short Jacket And White Trousers
20. The Bold Fisherman


CD 2

01. Death And The Lady
02. Glenlogie
03. The Oxford Girl
04. Are You Going To Leave Me?
05. The Outlandish Knight
06. Go From My Window
07. Young Girl Cut Down In Her Prime
08. Geordie
09. Salisbury Plain
10. Fair Maid Of Islington
11. Six Dukes
12. Polly On The Shore
13. Plains Of Waterloo
14. Fare Thee Well My Dearest Dear
15. C'est La Fin - Pour Mon Coeur
16. Bonny Kate
17. Adieu To All Judges And Juries
18. Edi Beo Thu Hevene Quene
19. Black Joker - Black White, Yellow & Green
20. The Gallant Hussar
21. Hopping Down In Kent

Quality: 320 kbps





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Shirley Collins - The Power Of The True Love Knot




TrackList:

01. Bonnie Boy
02. Richie Story
03. Lovely Joan
04. Just As The Tide Was Flowing
05. Unquiet Grave
06. Black Eyed Susan Brown
07. Seven Yellow Gipsies
08. Over The Hills And Far Away
09. Greenwood Laddie
10. Lady Margaret And Sweet William
11. Maydens Came
12. Polly Vaughan
13. Barley Straw
14. Barbara Allen

Quality: 192kbps




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Shirley Collins – English Songs (EP)

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1959
Lable : Collector Records
mp3 @ 256
19.8mb
1 EP
Folk, English Folk,

Shirley’s beautiful singing style, apparently lacking any affectation, has earned her accolades such as “the first lady of folk”.

On leaving school, at the age of 17, Shirley Collins enrolled at a teachers’ training college in Tooting, south London. However, in London she also involved herself in the early folk revival and in 1954, at a party hosted by Ewan McColl, she met Alan Lomax, the famous American folk collector, who had moved to Britain to avoid the McCarthy witch-hunt which was then raging in America. Lomax and Collins began a romantic relationship which led to their undertaking a folk song collecting trip in the Southern states which lasted from July to November 1959 and resulted in many hours of recordings, featuring performers such as Almeda Riddle, Hobart Smith, and Bessie Jones and culminated in the discovery of Mississippi Fred McDowell.
Recordings from this trip were issued by Atlantic Records under the title “Sounds of the South” and also featured in the Coen brothers’ film Oh Brother, Where Art Thou. The experience of her life with Lomax and the making of the recordings in religious communities, social gatherings, prisons and chain gangs was described in Collins’s book America Over the Water (published 2004).


TrackList:

01. The Unquiet Grave
02. New Castle
03. The Irish Girl
04. I Drew My Ship

Recorded in London in 1958/59
Produced by Paul Carter
Shirley Collins, vocals, 5-string banjo;
Robin Hall, guitar



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Shirley Collins - False True Lovers (1959) Lossless - FLAC

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TrackList:

01. I Drew My Ship (2:24)
02. The Irish Boy (1:37)
03. The Spermwhale Fishery (2:41)
04. Dennis O'Reilly (2:06)
05. My Bonny Miller Lad (1:51)
06. Just As The Tide Was Flowing (1:21)
07. Bobby Shaftoe (1:23)
08. Richie Song (4:07)
09. The Unquiet Grave (4:12)
10. The Swapping Song (1:30)
11. Poor Old Horse (1:11)
12. The False True Love (3:51)
13. The Foggy Dew (2:25)
14. Mowing The Barley (0:56)
15. Scarborough Fair (1:40)
16. The Cruel Mother (7:05)
17. The Bonny Cuckoo (1:28)
18. The Queen Of May (1:50)
19. Died For Love (1:50)

Credits:
Guy Carawan - Guitar
Shirley Collins - Arranger, Banjo, Guitar, Liner Notes, Vocals
Herbert Greene - Photography
Peter Kennedy - Producer
Alan Lomax - Producer
Ralph Rinzler - Guitar
David Suff - Drawing
Traditional - Composer




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Shirley & Dolly Collins - Love, Death and the Lady (1970) @320kbs

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Tracklist:

01. Death & The Lady (4:09)
02. Glenlogie (3:48)
03. The Oxford Girl (2:00)
04. Are You Going to Leave Me? (2:54)
05. The Outlandish Knight (5:05)
06. Go From My Window (2:36)
07. Young Girl Cut Down In Her Prime (3:42)
08. Geordie (4:59)
09. Salisbury Plain (2:41)
10. Fair Maid of Islington (2:18)
11. Six Dukes (2:30)
12. Polly On The Shore (3:10)
13. Plains of Waterloo (8:04)

Bonus tracks:
14. Sailor from Dover (3:21)
15. Young John (6:24)
16. Short Jacket & White Trousers (2:59)
17. The Bold Fisherman (4:40)

Credits:
Dolly Collins - Vocals
Shirley Collins - Banjo, Guitar, Vocals
Terry Cox - Percussion
John Fordham - Recorder
Christopher Hogwood - Keyboards
Alan Lumsden - Sac
Adam Skeaping - Violin
Rod Skeaping - Violin
Eleanor Sloan - Rebab
Traditional - Composer
Peter Wood - Clarinet




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The Young Tradition with Shirley & Dolly Collins - The Holly Bears The Crown (1995)

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These recordings were made in London in 1969. A few weeks later The Young Tradition broke up and the record were never released: until now. Sadly. Royston Wood died in 1990. Peter Bellamy in 1991 and Dolly Collins in 1995. This record is dedicated to their memory.


Tracklist:

01. Prologue from Hamlet (0:28)
02. The Boar's Head Carol (1:38)
03. Is It Far To Bethlehem? (2:13)
04. Lullay My Liking (2:11)
05. The Cherry Tree Carol [Trad/SC] (2:48)
06. Shepherds Arise (3:10)
07. I Sing Of A Maiden That Is Makeless [Trad/DC] (1:56)
08. Interlude: The Great Frost [V Woolf] (2:16)
09. Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (2:09)
10. A Virgin Most Pure (4:19)
11. The Coventry Carol (1:55)
12. The Holly Bears The Crown (2:49)
13. March The Morning Sun [w Royston Wood] (2:24)
14. Bring Us In Good Ale (2:34)

Credits:
Peter Bellamy - vocals
Shirley Collins - vocals
Dolly Collins - portative organ
Adam Skeaping - violone
Rod Skeaping - bass viol
Heather Wood - vocals
Royston Wood - vocals
Gary Watson - narrator

Quality: Lossless - APE




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