Shirley Collins. Classic. Dud is not an option here, I'm afraid.

drawing from the shirley collins repertoire i believe

yeah also i have a mild beef with that as well -- that toad from the decemberists did the same thing

i don't have a beef. i'd probably get this album. collins was always very careful to explain where a song (or indeed different parts/aspects of a song) came from, and i hope these folks can follow suit. alasdair roberts' album of traditional tunes was also careful in this regard--and it's an amazing album IMO. (speaking of "the crook of my arm")

yeah but i wouldn't sing those same tunes and call it an album alasdair roberts songs
they're traditional songs

sort of more mysterious -- i'd never heard of sundblad, but i guess she's some kinda mixed media artist:
http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2014/04/emily-sundblad-at-house-of-gaga/
On Display:
15 drawings made at the Santa Barbara Zoo, mounted on pleather, leather and card. 3 illustrations made in New York. adapted loosely from Rembrandt and Delacroix.
A white wedding dress and a veil that mimics a cage and makes the dress suitable for both a wedding and a funeral made by Proenza Schouler, based on a concept by Emily Sundblad.
One belt and one set of horse’s reins. One peep-hole into the dining room.
8 old English folk songs played in the gallery and displayed each on it’s own USB stick with hardware. The songs are adapted from early recordings by Shirley Collins and performed by Emily Sundblad and Matt Sweeney. Recorded in January 2014 by Justin Smith at Pink Duck studios in Burbank. Produced by Matt Sweeney.
1 Rib eye steak, frozen.
1 Piece of goat meat in a ziploc bag, frozen.
1 Assemblage/ visual EP consisting of a drawing titled “Lobster Dinner”, cutlery, four USB sticks with one song on each attached to various hardware, one plastic snake, a belt buckle and a glass of red wine.
The show is an attempt to explore how two antiquated institutions- the zoo and marriage- and one institution that will always be a jour- death- illustrate a feeling of imprisonment by love.

album OF
oops
sorry -- i'm running to a meeting and thinking about matt sweeney's teeth

xp

oh man that was a GREAT episode of macgyver

"The Teeth of Sweeney" kind of sounds like it could be song on a Shirley Collins album

yeah but i wouldn't sing those same tunes and call it an album alasdair roberts songs
they're traditional songs

― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Tuesday, April 22, 2014 2:25 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we're making the same point bro

thanks bro

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love dolly's face
clearly from the "for as many as will" photo shoot
apparently shirley's dress is an annabelinda dress, learned that too! (http://www.annabelinda.com/about/)

Ill at Ease is on And Now the Rain, right? I need to give that more listens. Besides Scenes, my go-to Roy is the 2nd Dissolve album (about which I have also talked to LL)

Oops rong thread

haha

podcast with shirley talking about her southern journey with alan lomax! http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/r4music

Southern Journeys
Wed, 21 May 14
Duration:
59 mins
It's not an exaggeration to say that without the work of Alan Lomax, American music might have sounded very different. Lomax's field recordings of the music of the poor and disposessed, made in fields, churches and prisons, made a big impression on the likes of Bob Dylan and paved the way for the 1960s Blues revival. In this programme British folk singer Shirley Collins (who was both Lomax's lover and assistant) tells the story of his trips to the Southern States and in particular one made in 1959. where the pair discovered the great bluesman Mississippi Fred McDowell. This programme contains language which may offend.

nice!

oh my gosh thanks!

warning! moby content! (but 4 real, it is a good listen)

you mean TRIGGER WARNING

i'm glad there's moby on there - considering how much $ he (probably?) made from using those samples
he might as well chime in

also i can't wait to listen to this over the weekend!

yeah i kid moby, but i get the feeling moby would be a nice guy.

i'm glad there's moby on there - considering how much $ he (probably?) made from using those samples
he might as well chime in

― funch dressing (La Lechera), Wednesday, May 21, 2014 12:43 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

would be pretty funny if his interview was reduced to the line, "i'm moby, and i made millions of dollars sampling the music that lomax recorded."

thanks for the link btw.

i got her book on the subject, "america over the water," it was a decent read but surprisingly un-literary i thought.

it was a memoir! i read it on my honeymoon.

yeah, i guess i mean it wasn't esp. well-written or vivid. you can have "literary memoirs," in fact that's kind of a recognized genre.

i finished it thinking that she was a bit reserved about her personal deets, but i appreciate that in a person.

yeah, no james salter-like extended descriptions of making love to alan lomax

would love to read it but it's a tad pricey on amazon

lol, gross

i got impression that she enjoyed the experience of assisting in the field recordings way more than she enjoyed being his companion.

got *the* impression

what is wrong with me today!? geez.

it's ok, when you leave out the article i just imagine you speaking in some eastern-european accent

This is fun to flick through and read in your best inner Shirley voice:

A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect (1875)

(written by a vicar so alas no saucy language)

this is superb. there is a meal called beever?! highlights from skimming through:

'bishop-barnaby' for a ladybird
'blobtit' (tell-tale)
'grummut' (an awkward boy)
'foundle' for anything you find
'january butter' (mud)
'oration' for fuss
'peter-grievous' (fretful)
'radical' for tiresome
'snudge' (walking with head down)

my favourite thing though was this idea of 'the sheeres' which is everywhere that's not kent or sussex, so hampshire & wiltshire but also china & australia.

also:

Bodger. [Corruption of Badger.]

what a charming look!
1957

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foxy

Chanced upon this poster of a 1979 Irish folk festival w/Shirley and Dolly on the bill:

http://i.imgur.com/PpTIHxU.jpg

so cool!!

looks like a good time. curious to know what tipsy sailor sounded like.

http://mainlynorfolk.info/shirley.collins/images/largerec/heroesinlove_top95.jpg

Shirley Collins ‏@shirleyeCollins 13m

News from @TopicRecords Coming soon - ltd edition 7” vinyl facsimile of this early recording from @shirleyeCollins

Shirley Collins - Heroes in Love (1963) EP Topic Records TOP95
Side A 1. The False Bride (Roud 154) 2. Locks and Bolts (Roud 406 / Laws M13)
Side B 3. Rambleaway (Roud 171) 4. A Blacksmith Courted Me (Roud 816)
All songs Traditional

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awesome! the reissue of anne briggs' hazards of love ep topic put out recently was very nicely done.

Anyone kicked on on this yet?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shirleycollins/the-ballad-of-shirley-collins

"...special edition of a new book Shirley is currently writing. Part songbook, part travelogue, part psychogeography, By the Mark On His Hand will explore her relationship with the English countryside she so dearly loves."

um! still need to track down a copy of ameica over the water.

Anyone kicked on on this yet?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shirleycollins/the-ballad-of-shirley-ppcollins

Anyone kicked on on this yet?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shirleycollins/the-ballad-of-shirley-collins

Oops, sorry.