Shirley & Dolly Collins - Love, Death & The Lady flac album

Tracks 1 to 13 comprise the original 1970 album. Tracks 14 to 17 are bonus tracks for this CD reissue. This version was reissued on Fledg'ling Records in 2003. Other Versions (5 of 6) View All.

Shirley Elizabeth Collins MBE (born 5 July 1935) is an English folk singer who was a significant contributor to the English Folk Revival of the 1960s and 1970s. She often performed and recorded with her sister Dolly, whose accompaniment on piano and portative organ created unique settings for her sister's plain, austere singing style. Shirley Collins and her older sister, Dolly, grew up in the Hastings area of East Sussex in a family which kept alive a great love of traditional song.

Discography: Shirley Collins. The Sweet Primeroses (Remastered) (2019). Richie Song (Original Mix) (2019). Classics By Shirley Collins, Vol. 2 (2017). 1 (2017).

The opening ''Death And The Lady'' recounts the struggle of a woman with the reaper. This is one album that'll still be as relevant in a hundred years time. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence. 1 Death & The Lady.

The album was produced by Austin John Marshall, Shirley's husband at the time. Rejected love plays a part in some songs, and this might echo the fact that Shirley and Austin were on the verge of divorcing each other. Arrangements are provided by Dolly Collins (Shirley's sister), who plays flute-organ and piano, and gives a minor key accompaniment to some songs. It is almost as if the singer and the instrumentalists are in different worlds

The album was produced by Austin John Marshall, Shirley's husband at the time. It is almost as if the singer and the instrumentalists are in different worlds

Death & The Lady 4:09 Glenlogie 3:48 The Oxford Girl 2:00 Are You Going To Leave Me? 2:54 The Outlandish Knight 5:05 Go From My Window 2:36 Young Girl Cut Down In Her Prime 3:42 Geordie 4:59 Salisbury Plain 2:41 Fair Maid Of Islington 2:18 Six Dukes 2:30 Polly On The Shore 3:10 Plains Of Waterloo 8:04. Songs learnt from their grandfather and from their mother's sister, Grace Winborn, were to be important in the sisters' repertoire throughout their career. On leaving school, at the age of 17, Collins enrolled at a teachers' training college in Tooting, south London. However, the album was not released to the public until 1995. Collins's seminal recording is considered by many to be Anthems in Eden, released in 1969.