Shirley Collins No Roses Rar

I can't really be bothered to write very much right now so I'll just stick up the links. Paddy Reilly is - or was, 30 years ago - pretty much the best of the Irish ballad singers. I saw him play live, once in Donegal Town and once somewhere else, when I was on tour in Ireland in 1977 - he was very good and I had a great respect for the man. Later, he joined The Dubliners - haven't heard that lineup but I suspect it wasn't as good as these three little gems. Paddy Reilly - The Life Of Paddy Reilly (1973) The cover photo of this album was taken at the gates of Kilmainham gaol, which is where James Connelly was hanged. Funny (or not), when I was playing Irish music we weren't allowed to sing the words of that song. So we palyed it as an instrumental - we weren't alone in that.

01 - 01 - Spancil Hill 01 - 02 - Coming Of The Road 01 - 03 - Sam Hall 01 - 04 - Come To The Bower 01 - 05 - Deportees 01 - 06 - Dollymount Strand 01 - 07 - Irish Soldier Boy 01 - 08 - Matt Hyland 01 - 09 - Orange And The Green 01 - 10 - James Larkin 01 - 11 - James Connolly 01 - 12 - The Lark In The Morning Paddy Reilly - Paddy Reilly At Home (1974) This isn't the original cover of this album - no idea why but they changed the photo just before I bought my copy. 02 - 01 - Come Out Ye Black And Tans 02 - 02 - Joe Hill 02 - 03 - The Limerick Rake 02 - 04 - Peggy Gordon 02 - 05 - The Foggy Dew 02 - 06 - Four Green Fields 02 - 07 - A Nation Once Again 02 - 08 - Blackwater Side 02 - 09 - Silver In The Stubble 02 - 10 - Kelly The Boy From Killane 02 - 11 - Annerchuain 02 - 12 - Salford Town Paddy Reilly - The Town I Loved So Well (1975) Yes *that* song. Still the best version of it. 03 - 01 - The Flower Of Sweet Strabane 03 - 02 - The Cliffs Of Dooneen 03 - 03 - The Hills Of Kerry 03 - 04 - The Galway Races 03 - 05 - Rathcliff Highway 03 - 06 - Come Up The Stairs 03 - 07 - The Town I Loved So Well 03 - 08 - Arthur McBride 03 - 09 - Autumn Has Come 03 - 10 - I Once Loved A Lass 03 - 11 - Bold Tenant Farmer 03 - 12 - Sweet Carnlough Bay 03 - 13 - There Has To Be An End To It Someday 03 - 14 - The Movin' Along Song. Some requests before we start. THE WATERSONS - I've recently bought the reissued CDs and the huge box set but am missing one track from the original 'Yorkshire Garland' album that was omitted from the re-release, no idea why.

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Would therefore like to get hold of The Plains Of Mexico. SPUD - I'd love to get hold of the two Spud albums with Dermot O'Connor - when I was in Poteen there was talk of myself and Joe O'Donnell teaming up with him to form a new band, but it never happened. Anyway, all I have is an old cassette of ' A Silk Purse' and ' A Sow's Ear', neither of which play any more. I recently found a download link ('Grown So Ugly' that had a vinyl rip of one - does the other even exist?) BERT JANSCH - several people have asked if I have ' L A Turnaround' - no I don't, and I don't know anyone who does. It seems to have vanished forever - even Bert himself couldn't find a copy when compiling a recent anthology. If anyone has got a copy of any of these, *please* rip it & post it somewhere. I'll happily post them here if you dont have a blog of your own (and give you all the credit, of course).

Also: SHIRLEY COLLINS - I've been trying to get hold of the ' Within Sound' box set, but Fledg'ling have sold out - they're not planning to press any more - and the only copy I can see is going for £100 on Amazon. If anyone has a copy they'd be willing to sell me for a reasonable sum, please drop me a line.

Alternatively, if you can let me have it in MP3 format that would be fine as well - I know that's a bit naughty but I *will* pay for it if I can find it at a reasonable price. Got the MP3s, now I need the CDS. 'And now, back to the records'. More folky stuff this time I'm afraid. I get like this from time to time - obsessed with a particular artist or genre. I can honestly say that, right now, I would happily spend the rest of my life listening to The Watersons, Shirley Collins, Anne Briggs and Spirogyra to the exclusion of anything else. And it's all down to Bazza Dransfield and his recent emails.

Of course I've known most of that stuff for 30 years or more, but it's equally true that, apart from the odd Fairport, Steeleye or Trees album, most of it has been unlistened-to since CD took over as my medium of choice. Hmm - having said I was going to post all the Leader & Trailer stuff I could find, a trawl through my albums reveals that I don't have that many any more. Air Gap Device For Water Softener.

But here are two that I do have - and soon there will be more folk oddities. Here's an oddity though. I bought this album because 'Alison Gross' was on it and I liked the Steeleye version on Parcel Of Rogues (although, with hindsight, it ain't that great - in fact I really don't rate Steeleye after the first 2 or 3 albums).

I wasn't prepared for what I got, though - a pretty uncompromising and stark album with no attempt to pretty anything up, I found this album pretty hard going and I didn't play it much. I will though, now, maybe I underestimate it. Dave plays squeezebox on track 6, Kevin Burke plays fiddle on track 3, Packie Byrne plays whistle on track 4 and Nic Jones plays fiddle on tracks 5 & 8, but otherwise it's Dave & Toni singing unaccompanied, mostly in unison an octave apart (if that makes sense). Toni Arthur, of course, went on to present Play Away with the mighty Brian Cant. BTW - no, I don't have any of the Nic Jones albums. Unfortunately I never really liked his solo stuff that much - my loss, I'm sure - and so all I have is the Bandoggs album on which he sings & plays.

'Penguin Eggs' is supposed to be his best album, and that *is* still available, along with some live & previously unreleased stuff on compilations, but despite listening again I'm afraid I'm still not a huge fan of his. Dave & Toni Arthur - Hearken To The Witches Rune (1970) 01 - Alison Gross 02 - Tam Lin 03 - A Fairy Tale 04 - The Fairy Child 05 - Broomfield Hill 06 - The Standing Stones 07 - The Cruel Mother 08 - Alice Brand Dick Gaughan - No More Forever (1972) If you don't know Dick Gaughan, shame on you. This is his first solo album, the last of my great lost 'Bulmerised' Trailer albums for now. 01 - Rattlin' Roarin' Willie & The Friar's Britches 02 - MacCrimmon's Lament & Mistress Jamieson's favourite 03 - Jock O'Hazeldean 04 - Cam' Ye Ower Frae France 05 - The Bonnie Banks O' Fordie 06 - The Thatchers O' Glenrae 07 - The Fair Flower Of Northumberland 08 - The Teatotaller & Da Tushker 09 - The Three Healths 10 - The John MacLean March 11 - The Green Linnet. The other day I uploaded some albums by the Dransfield brothers and, since I used to know Barry quite well, emailed him to check that it was OK to do so. His reply included the comment that 'our stuff.is all mainly still in the hands of Dave Bulmer and he never pays us anything anyway'. I thought nothing much of that but a few days later, on a whim, I googled 'Dave Bulmer'.

And what a can of worms I discovered. I'm not going to say much more than that right now, because I don't know the truth, except that there is a heck of a lot of vitally important, and extremely good, folk music that is unlikely to see the light of day in the near future.

Hence the uploading of this album. I'm going to post all the Leader and Trailer stuff I can and hope that somehow he's convinced to re-release them and let the artists have their just desserts. Sadly, for Tony Rose it's too late, and Nic Jones could probably have used some royalties. If you don't know this album, do yourself a favour and listen - then go and buy some other Watersons stuff. Norma you probably know about, the family band is almost all unaccompanied traditional folk song (though among the very best of its genre), and the two albums that Lal made with her son Oliver Knight ( and ) are absolutely wonderful. Go buy them, ay least!!! Also, the songs on Bright Phoebus have been recorded by an array of folk stars for an album called ' which I've ordered from Amazon but haven't heard yet.

Lal & Mike Waterson - Bright Phoebus (1972) Interesting thing - somewhere down the line I seem to have obtained MP3s of Bright Phoebus. I *have* ripped my vinyl, and I thought I'd posted the mp3s somewhere, but these rips are definitely *not* from my vinyl. I know that because there's an irrepairable jump in 'Danny Rose' on the album, and it misses the words '.his original gun.' , so it sounds like '.this is h*nn, never been shown.' If anyone has an MP3 of that track that skips there, it's *my* rip from *my* vinyl.

The version posted below doesn't do that, so it ain't my rip. Thanks to wherever I got it from! 01 - Rubber Band 02 - The Scarecrow 03 - Fine Horsemen 04 - Winifer Odd 05 - Danny Rose 06 - Child Among The Weeds 07 - The Magical Man 08 - Never the Same 09 - To Make You Stay 10 - Shady Lady 11 - Red Wine And Promises 12 - Bright Phoebus BTW a similar situation exists with Green Linnet - the label that released many of the best Irish albums on CD (including Andy Irvine Paul Brady) but never paid the artists any royalties. Green On Red - Gravity Talks (1983) Another album that has, inexplicably, never been released on CD as far as I'm aware. 01 - Gravity Talks 02 - Old Chief 03 - 5 Easy Pieces 04 - Deliverance 05 - Over My Head 06 - Snake Bit 07 - Blue Parade 08 - That's What You're Here For 09 - Brave Generation 10 - Abigail's Ghost 11 - Cheap Wine 12 - Narcolepsy. Somewhere on the Web, recently, I saw a post that mentioned somebody's two favourite albums weren't available on CD. I coulnda believe it, so I checked, and it's true!

So here, without further adon't, are said albums. Also a few more requested re-ups. Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith - Roy Harper (1967) Apparently this is Roy Harper's least favourite of all his albums - don't know why, I think it's one of his best. Jesus The Jew Geza Vermes Pdf Files here.

Mind you, it was also one of the first of his that I owned (I saw it 2nd hand in a local WHSmith the day I bought Flat Baroque), around the same time that I bought Love Chronicles (and that *is* available). • Freak Sweet • You Don't Need Money • Ageing Raver • In a Beautiful Rambling Mess • All You Need Is • What You Have • Circle • Highgate Cemetery • Come Out Fighting Genghis Smith 200 Motels - Frank Zappa (1970) Well you'll either like this or you won't I guess. For full info about it go. No idea why it's not available - it's *far* from his worst album. It's also far from his best, though.

Shirley Collins & The Albion Country Band - No Roses (1971) 'When this album was first released in 1971, it was regarded as adventurous, combining a traditional English singer with 25 musicians, some from a folk background, other from the fields of contemporary rock and early music. It was an experiment which grew into a triumph, and sprang from the talents of Shirley Collins and Ashley Hutchings, both pioneers of their own right, in the first year of their marriage. Shirley, widely regarded as the doyenne of English traditional folk singers, had recorded her first album in 1959 for the highly respected American Folkways label, and subsequent albums were regarded as milestones, notably Folk Roots, New Routes made in 1964 with guitarist Davy Graham and Anthems in Eden, made with her sister Dolly in 1969 - the first album to unite traditional songs with early instruments, under the musical direction of David Monrow. Ashley Hutchings, a founder member of Fairport Convention, had left that pioneering band at the end of 1969, after recording Fairport's seminal Liege and Lief, and, still hooked on traditional music, had then launched Steeleye Span.

No Roses was the album they made together, and Shirley still remembers it with pleasure: “It was my first venture into folk/rock and I suppose initially I didn't think my voice was right for it. Whatever accompaniments I've used, I've always sung in my own style, my natural singing voice, which is an extension of my speech.

So it was the arrangements that overlaid the songs that gave the record it folk/rock feel. I've always been willing to experiment providing I believe I can keep the integrity of the music intact.

That's paramount. I have a great love of English traditional music, and along with it a great respect for those people of the labouring classes who kept the songs going through the centuries as their only means of expressing themselves. It is an extraordinary feat, especially as many of them were illiterate. They've never been given enough credit or respect for their art. Instead, they've been scorned, despised and largely ignored. It's one reason why I've always named my sources. I trust that No Roses had that integrity, as well as strength and beauty in some of the arrangements and a great sense of fun and charm in others.” Looking at No Roses with the benefit of hindsight, one presumes that Ashley and Sandy (Roberton, co-producer with Hutchings) were determined to make an epic album.

“No, we didn't set out with that intention, but as the album progressed, the possibilities of what we could do became more and more apparent. At the start we didn't anticipate having 26 musicians on it, but that's how it finally turned out. There was never any conflict between the Fairport people and the other musicians. They were open-minded and interested in what others were doing anyway, and there was certainly a good feeling in the studio (Sound Techniques). The place was full of people who kept dropping in and staying on and asking to play on songs - just happy to be there. Nobody seemed baffled by what anyone else was doing, just a bit bemused perhaps by the variety of esoteric instruments that were coming in and out of the studio.” “The critical reaction was pretty good - on the whole!

One or two snipers, of course.” No Roses marked the debut of The Albion Country Band. The Albion Band continues to be the name used by bands led by Ashley Hutchings, although it was a name coined for use on this album. “We realised that with all those musicians it would probably be a good idea to give them a collective name and that was the one we came up with.” So why was there never a second album?

“I had two children from my first marriage, and we'd all moved to Etchingham in the Sussex countryside. I'd been touring all my singing life, away from home too much, and I wanted to be with Polly and Robert more, so I let my own career slip a bit, for the best of reasons. Ashley had formed a touring bend with the first of many line-ups and used the Albion name, and all our efforts went into trying to keep that going. When Ashley and I eventually parted, he took the Albion Band with him. No Roses stayed with me.” (Tony Rees, liner notes) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Shirley Collins' collaboration with the Albion Country Band for No Roses is considered a major event in the history of British folk and British folk-rock. For it was the first time that Collins, roundly acknowledged as one of the best British traditional folk singers, sang with electric accompaniment, and indeed one of the first times that a British traditional folk musician had 'gone electric' in the wake of Dave Swarbrick joining Fairport Convention and Martin Carthy joining Steeleye Span. The album itself doesn't sound too radical, however.

At times it sounds something like Fairport Convention with Shirley Collins on lead vocals, which is unsurprising given the presence of Ashley Hutchings on all cuts but one, and Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol on most of the selections (Dave Mattacks plays drums on a few tracks for good measure). The nine songs are almost wholly traditional tunes with Collins' arrangements, with perhaps a jauntier and folkier mood than that heard in early-'70s Fairport, though not much. It's more impressive for Collins' always tasteful smoky vocals than for the imagination of the material, which consolidates the sound of the more traditional wing of early-'70s British folk-rock.'