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While credited to Shirley Collins, this 1967 album is really the work of Collins and her sister, Dolly Collins, who provides the fascinating instrumental settings courtesy of a modern reproduction of a 1643 miniature pipe organ, with its distinctive flutey sound. That sound, combined with Dolly's arrangements and keyboard decorations, give these traditional songs the sound of early music: restrained and almost medieval. The expansive sleeve notes give a background to the songs (Collins had worked as a researcher, both in England and the U.S., where she helped Alan Lomax during his 1959 U.S. field recordings), which helps the listener understand a great deal more about "Over the Hills and Far Away," for example, a song that's been reinvented since the days of John Gay, and "The Beggar's Opera." But above all, it's Shirley Collins' voice that brings these pieces to life. Breathy and often artless, there's a sincerity and depth to it that's both warm and undeniable. She lives these pieces, whether it's the tale of "Lovely Joan" or the ballad sadness of "Barbara Allen" (surely one of the best-known of all traditional songs on both sides of the Atlantic). It's easy to forget in the mists of time that during the late '60s, this particular adventurous strand of folk music found an audience outside the genre, when the Collins sisters signed to the progressive label Harvest. Before the folk-rock of Fairport Convention, Collins herself was already breaking boundaries, and this disc, with its pristine Joe Boyd production, was one of the first to demolish those barriers. So not only is it a small musical masterpiece, it's seminal in the modern history of folk music.
© Chris Nickson /TiVo
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Shirley Collins, MainArtist - Dolly Collins, MainArtist - Collins Shirley Elizabeth, Composer, Lyricist
2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd 2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Shirley Collins, MainArtist - Dolly Collins, MainArtist - Collins Shirley Elizabeth, Composer, Lyricist - Collins Dolly, Composer
2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd 2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Shirley Collins, MainArtist - Dolly Collins, MainArtist - Lewin Giles Francis, Composer, Lyricist - Ellis Vivien, Composer
2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd 2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Shirley Collins, MainArtist - Dolly Collins, MainArtist - Collins Shirley Elizabeth, Composer, Lyricist
2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd 2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Shirley Collins, MainArtist - Dolly Collins, MainArtist - Drever Kris John Robert, Composer, Lyricist - O Rourke Aidan Joseph, Composer, Lyricist - Green Martin, Composer, Lyricist
2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd 2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Shirley Collins, MainArtist - Dolly Collins, MainArtist - Gay John, Composer, Lyricist - Collins Shirley Elizabeth, Composer - Collins Dolly, Composer, Lyricist
2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd 2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Shirley Collins, MainArtist - Dolly Collins, MainArtist - Collins Shirley Elizabeth, Composer, Lyricist
2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd 2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Shirley Collins, MainArtist - Dolly Collins, MainArtist - Gay John, Composer, Lyricist - Collins Shirley Elizabeth, Composer - Collins Dolly, Composer
2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd 2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Shirley Collins, MainArtist - Dolly Collins, MainArtist - Collins Shirley Elizabeth, Composer, Lyricist - Collins Dolly, Composer
2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd 2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Shirley Collins, MainArtist - Dolly Collins, MainArtist - Collins Shirley Elizabeth, Composer, Lyricist - Collins Dolly, Composer
2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd 2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Shirley Collins, MainArtist - Dolly Collins, MainArtist - Collins Shirley Elizabeth, Composer, Lyricist - Collins Dolly, Composer
2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd 2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Shirley Collins, MainArtist - Dolly Collins, MainArtist - Simpson Martin Stewart, Composer, Lyricist - Murphy Julie, Composer - Robinson Doug, Composer
2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd 2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Shirley Collins, MainArtist - Dolly Collins, MainArtist - Collins Shirley Elizabeth, Composer, Lyricist - Collins Dolly, Composer
2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd 2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Shirley Collins, MainArtist - Dolly Collins, MainArtist - Everly Isaac Donald, Composer, Lyricist
2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd 2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd
Albumbeschreibung
While credited to Shirley Collins, this 1967 album is really the work of Collins and her sister, Dolly Collins, who provides the fascinating instrumental settings courtesy of a modern reproduction of a 1643 miniature pipe organ, with its distinctive flutey sound. That sound, combined with Dolly's arrangements and keyboard decorations, give these traditional songs the sound of early music: restrained and almost medieval. The expansive sleeve notes give a background to the songs (Collins had worked as a researcher, both in England and the U.S., where she helped Alan Lomax during his 1959 U.S. field recordings), which helps the listener understand a great deal more about "Over the Hills and Far Away," for example, a song that's been reinvented since the days of John Gay, and "The Beggar's Opera." But above all, it's Shirley Collins' voice that brings these pieces to life. Breathy and often artless, there's a sincerity and depth to it that's both warm and undeniable. She lives these pieces, whether it's the tale of "Lovely Joan" or the ballad sadness of "Barbara Allen" (surely one of the best-known of all traditional songs on both sides of the Atlantic). It's easy to forget in the mists of time that during the late '60s, this particular adventurous strand of folk music found an audience outside the genre, when the Collins sisters signed to the progressive label Harvest. Before the folk-rock of Fairport Convention, Collins herself was already breaking boundaries, and this disc, with its pristine Joe Boyd production, was one of the first to demolish those barriers. So not only is it a small musical masterpiece, it's seminal in the modern history of folk music.
© Chris Nickson /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:42:30
- Main artists: Shirley Collins Dolly Collins
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Fledg'ling
- Genre: Blues/country/folk Folk
2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd 2000 A Wing & A Prayer Ltd
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