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

not the jolliest choice of song eh?

oh that's true but i loved it!

double thanks for posting that, just knowing it happened makes me glad and seeing shirley's face always makes me smile :-)

wow that was great

vid's gone already!

shirley collins google alert

http://olatheedge.com/news/2014/02/20/7781-overland-park-therapist-safehome-organization-volunteer-receive-statewide-honors

TOPEKA, KAN. — An Overland Park, Kan., therapist and volunteer with an organization working on behalf of victims of domestic violence have been recognized by the Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence (KCSDV).

Shirley Collins was presented with the Outstanding Advocate of the Year Award and Helen LaValley was presented with the Volunteer of the Year Award during KCSDV’s 11th Annual Safe Homes, Safe Streets Awareness Day and Sunflower Safety Breakfast event in Topeka in February.

Since 1995, KCSDV has been recognizing outstanding advocates and allies who are working to enhance victim safety, to increase perpetrator accountability, and to prevent and eliminate sexual and domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking in Kansas.

“We honor both Shirley Collins and Helen LaValley for their tireless efforts on behalf of victims of sexual and domestic violence,” said Joyce Grover, executive director of KCSDV. “Their work is transformative and life-saving in many cases.”

Collins has been in the violence against women movement for almost three decades. She has worked one-on-one with victims and for ten years led SAFEHOME’s Clinical Counseling Program which, in 2013, served over 1,000 women, children and men.

“Shirley Collins has dedicated her life to supporting and improving the lives of victims of domestic violence. From her early service as the director of a domestic violence agency, to providing state of the art therapy to victims and their children, she never stops looking for new ways to help survivors find the strength, faith, courage, and hope that they don’t even realize they have,” said Janee’ Hanzlick, executive director of SAFEHOME, Inc., an agency serving victims of domestic violence in Johnson and Miami Counties. SAFEHOME nominated Collins and LaValley for the awards.

“Shirley Collins represents everything that the Juliene Maska Advocate of the Year is intended to be: victim-centered, compassionate, and caring,” says Joyce Grover, executive director of KCSDV. Collins has also championed efforts to train and mentor counseling staff and interns, advancing their skills through training on modalities that are particularly successful for working with trauma survivors. As a result, there are at least 50 therapists in Johnson County who are well-trained on working with victims of domestic violence and trauma.

Sounds like at least two great women share the same name. It's nice to hear an inspiring story about a non-famous person making the world a better place, even if it is because of a random internet coincidence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h-D3QCwirI
did we talk about this? matt sweeney and emily sundblad are doing an album of shirley collins songs? sounds kinda lovely in this live recording.

once again, matt sweeney has the strangest/best career going.

He really seems to have a good time

omg
he is trying to kill me y/n
i love his face

what does "shirley collins songs" mean -- she almost exclusively recorded traditional tunes, albeit sometimes in new arrangements by her/dolly.

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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