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

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

https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t1.0-9/10392318_10203046383911895_6314538899765499742_n.jpg

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

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_o8xEQUMYkUA/TMbnLoR37ZI/AAAAAAAAEqQ/Hq2FNAfarAE/s1600/vic+smith%27s+photo+of+shirley+collins.jpg

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.

totally looking forward to the new book!
will pre-order!

13 days left on this Kickstarter and not even halfway to goal! Whatta bummer! Cmon people! I'm pledging 50 - lotsa great stuff in that tier

Shirley O)))

America Across The Water was a great read so would love another volume of memoir.

Hadn't heard about this new thing until I just saw updates on this thread

Yeah, I'm in for 50 too. Personally I'm not sure the rewards are properly described or pitched correctly tbh - 50 is a fair bit for the first really worthwhile tier, noting the 30 tier was added quite recently, which feels too high for a generic entry cost.

(See also the GBP-O Vodun film KS, which has ridiculous tiers.)

I wanted to get a tier for my dad as a present but explaining to him that the present I just bought him, means he gets a book in 2015 that I paid £30 for and he doesn't even get a copy of the film he has backed would derail any inclination I might have of backing this

I agree that the rewards, how they are communicated and the reason for the money is fuzzy as all hell.

If they want backing for the film, the rewards need to be tied to the film, not books/compilation CDs/ 7" repressings.

do a download of the compilation for £5, an ebook for £10 and a blu ray of the doc for £15.

I had to unfollow the movie on twitter because I was starting to feel really irritated with the persistent requests/retweeted requests
shirley is one of my favorite singers in the whole world ever and seeing her name over and over and over and over with a request for money was bumming me out

they've added a new £15 tier for a d/l of the film, but yeah the reward structure is a bit of a mess. I backed at £30 for the book a few days back… but I have no recollection of how I decided that was the tier for me. I like books I guess.

I see Tibet's weighed in today on his mailing list with a plea for more backers.

They're getting closer, ~£5k to go. I backed for £30 too, would have been nice to get the film download included with that but oh well a book may or may not appear through my door long after I've forgotten about it.

They made it.

And have said the first stretch goal is at £50k. This is a really badly run KS.

I never thought they would make it. Did loads of people pile in or was it a minority who paid the bulk?

I only just got my first taste (aside from Current 93 guest star stuff) a week ago with the Shirley & Dolly Harvest 2-disc collection. Really loving Anthems In Eden.