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

The documentary looks to be streaming on the Lush website: http://player.lush.com/channels/lush/tv/ballad-shirley-collins-film-tim-plester-rob-curry

Not a sentence I ever imagined typing.

Lush like the beauty products store?

I preordered her book!

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I am giving a short presentation about Shirley to my music appreciation class tonight. In addition to general excitement at talking about her music with a captive audience, I can't wait to show them the connection between the Lomax recordings and her recordings and listen to the two different versions of "Death and the Lady"

I feel like she is with me! <3

http://www.thebeesknees.com/wp-content/uploads/sc-3080-web.jpg

http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/

Could have got free tickets for her appearance at the British Library but had to go back to Scotland for my sister's birthday ;_; Friggin' families, who needs 'em?

¡¡¡¡¡happy birthday shirley!!!!!

Christ, don't do that to me!

I'm just reading her memoir. Hadn't taken in what her Birthday is.
Book is really good as was America Over the Water.

83 years old, HBSC

i am allowed to wish shirley a happy birthday because she is still with us! celebrate, don't have a heart attack :)

she is a living treasure. i have been saving her new book for a special time to focus on it. i did the same thing with america over the water and read it on a trip. perfect!!!

her set in Birmingham a fortnight ago was my favourite musical performance of 2018 so far

i heard rumours there might be another album on the way btw

awweeeeesoooommmeeee

her set in Birmingham a fortnight ago was my favourite musical performance of 2018 so far
more details please!

who did she play with/who was in her band and what did they play
what songs did she sing
venue?

setlist is here https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/shirley-collins/2018/the-crossing-birmingham-england-1bea15b0.html

there were I think five musicians onstage inc the Cyclobe guys who produced Lodestar? or poss just Ossian. also a morris dancer who gamboled across the stage intermittently

there was also a live interview type thing earlier in the day which was good (esp the part where she named Ewan McColl as an historical sex pest) and wrt Nick's post did mention upcoming recording sessions for a new album!

sorry not as detailed as you wanted but yeah it was was wonderful

that is more than i had before, thank you!

Yeah it was a Lodestar run through, but the ?mandolin? couldn't get the right tuning for Sur le Borde de l'Eau despite it having had the full intro from Shirley. Thousands Or More was a nice easy sing-along to fill the gap.

I've just come to the part of All In The Downs where she says she loathes jazz. God, I guess everybody can't be perfect but did hope she might enjoy some of the decent stuff.
Oh well, she did look amazing in the 60s.
Sounded quite good too, but would have loved to hear some more jazz in her sound.
BUt I guess that goes against her singing style.

I finally decided it was time to start reading All in the Downs (I was saving it) and it is such a gigantic treat to hear/read/spend time with Shirley's voice again. I am loving every single minute of reading it. Her writing style reminds me so much of her singing style -- straightforward, unembellished, yet still very distinctively hers. I love her so much!!!

i heard a story about a jane doe ("mountain jane doe") whose body was never claimed the other day and it reminded me of this song. i had not realized the live version with intro was on youtube but here it is <3 <3 <3 to infinity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpGfQ0EUgWk

who knows -- looks like it has been there since 2009? that was sort of past my prime shirley-obsessed years
i love the spare arrangement of this version

forgot to wish Shirley a happy birthday -- happy birthday Shirley! I <3 you always and forever!

Happy Birthday!!

This just snuck up on me at the end of a tough week and god alive it's extraordinary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaJw-ryhBB0

I think the album with Dolly (Anthems in Eden) is my favourite single record she's involved with.

Always scared of reviving this thread, for fear of giving people palpitations, but Lodestar is killing me this evening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIptsu_pFhI

Lodestar really is great.
Recently came across this, which is also great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNO836enS-8

I had another delightful time introducing my students to her music and I always play the Death & the Lady from Lodestar. One student declared it “heavy”. I also kept my audience captive for the short version of my Maria Marten spiel and we listened to the song at the end of class one day. 💕

That session is lovely, Tyler!

She is so funny -- right now she is "furious" and posting on facebook because the BBC isn't airing Paddington 2

Paddington 2 is the perfect antidote for this current situation. I really felt that I needed it.

I have never seen Paddington 2 but now I want to watch it because if Shirley loves it, it's gotta be good right?

It is.

I've not bought Lodestar because I worry her voice isn't up to it.

New album:

.@shirleyeCollins announces new album, Heart’s Ease – watch a video for the song, "Wondrous Love"https://t.co/rZSOIr0i9o

— Uncut Magazine (@uncutmagazine) May 27, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwLrUuGT288

Not wild about the video but lovely to hear her in fine fettle.

Yes, she sounds great! Looking forward to hearing her sing Canadee-i-o

love it — i think her voice sounds great now. obviously lower range, but it's still unmistakably Shirley.

So there's at least one song on the new album about Paddington then?

i thought this was fantastic, apparently written in the 60s by her first husband, rediscovered on some ancient tape of her and Davy Graham and rerecorded with Nathan Salsburg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa2oIMUKIPM

interview / favourite albums thing in the quietus:

https://thequietus.com/articles/28545-shirley-collins-interview-favourite-music?page=1

Awesome.

One of the many awesome things about that interview is that a couple of the albums she picks have album covers so awful or generic yet I still want to hear them all right now. Can't judge a book, etc.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/quietus_production/images/articles/28545/i__1594058957_resize_460x400.jpg

lol i have that cd but i never added it to my collection in discogs because my god it's ugly (just like 95% of folk cds tbh). nic jones is super great though

She's a treasure <3

Can vouch for Lankum's Between The Earth And Sky being really great, dark and droney. As for the rest (apart from Vaughn Williams) I've no idea but am ready to be surprised.

her new 2020 song came up recently in Discovery and blew me away, now I forget the name of course

great interview!!! classic shirley <3 <3 <3
https://toneglow.substack.com/p/022-shirley-collins

really nice interview, still so classic. new album is great!

i liked the part about how she and her sister used to sleep in the metal box to protect themselves from air raids
poignant and gnarly, just like a good folk song!!

I was just totally bowled over by Heart's Ease, and I've never really listened to much Collins before. I think I've heard No Roses and maybe one Shirley & Dolly one? -- looking forward to exploring more. I suppose I was poised to be emotionally moved by the fact that on the cover she looks quite a bit like my late grandmother, but there's definitely something special about hearing an octogenarian sing these old songs right now, or any songs maybe (I also like the new Dylan much more than I expected to). Enjoying that interview now, thanks LL!