1st, Shirley & Dolly Collins, Love Death & The Lady

	£		77
	$		101

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1 ST pressing of this Very rare folk album

SHIRLEY & DOLLY COLLINS

Love Death & the Lady

Very rare gatefold sleeve

This album is an original first pressing released date 1970

Cat No:

SHVL 771

Matrix info:

Side 1: - SHVL 771 - A1

Side 2: - SHVL 771 - B1

Mother Stamp

side One: 1 R

Side Two: 1 A

1st Press original Poly-Lined EMI inner'

Yellow Harvest label without the EMI logo

"Gramophone Company" label rim text

drelease year 1970

outer sleeve condition

Using the Record Collectors grading system this record grades as

outer gatefold Sleeve: Excellent condition.

No edge wear, no splitting no writing, and just a hint of ageing.

remember this sleeve is 37 years old and still looks stunning. (see picture).

Vinyl: definite Mint condition having only been played twice

The vinyl playing surfaces of sides A & B look stunning and as if they had been pressed yesterday (see pictures of labels)

The original EMI inner sleeve again is in Mint condition, there is no , writing, scuffing, yellowing

(see picture)

The album has been play graded and plays without fault.

This is a truly exceptional package and is for the serious collector of classic Folk albums.

Biography

Shirley Collins and her sister, Dolly (born 5_March 1933, Hastings, Sussex died 1995, grew up in the Hastings area of East Sussex England in a family which kept alive a great love of traditional song. 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, in London she also involved herself in the early folk revival and in 1954, at a party hosted by Ewan MaColl she met Alan Lomax, the famous American folk collector, who had moved to Britain to avoid the McCarthyism which was then raging in America. Lomax and Collins began a romantic relationship which led to their undertaking a folk song collecting trip in the Southern United States which lasted from July to November 1959 and resulted in many hours of recordings, featuring performers such as Almeda Riddle, Hobart Smith, and Bessie Jones and culminated in the discovery of Mississippi Fred McDowell Recordings from this trip were issued by Atlantic Records under the title "Sounds of the South" and also featured in the Coen brothers’ film Oh Brother Where Art Thou. The experience of her life with Lomax and the making of the recordings in religious communities, social gatherings, prisons and chain gangs was described in Collins's book America Over the Water (published 2004).

Back in Britain, Collins proceeded with her own singing career, and in a series of influential albums, she helped to introduce many innovations into the English folk revival. In 1964, she recorded the landmark jazz-folk fusion of Folk Roots New Routes , with guitarist Davey Graham. 1967 saw the essentially southern English song collection, The Sweet Primeroses, on which she was accompanied for the first time by Dolly Collins's portative organ.

In 1969 there was another collaboration, this time with The Young Tradition (featuring Peter Bellamy, Heather Wood and Royston Wood) and Dolly Collins, The Holly Bears a Crown.

Collins's seminal recording is considered by many to be Anthems in Eden, released in 1969. It featured a suite of songs centred on the changes in rural England brought about by the World War I. Dolly Collins created arrangements featuring David Munrow and various other players from his Early Music Consort. The highly unusual combination of ancient instruments included Rebec, Sackbut, Viol and Crumhorn and hinted that the guitar was not the only appropriate accompaniment for the folk song. Several critics have suggested that it is impossible to imagine that electric accompaniment for traditional song, as successfully purveyed by Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span, could have developed quite as it did without the pioneering 'Anthems In Eden'.

All these recordings strove to marry a deep love and understanding of the English folk music heritage with a more contemporary attitude to musical settings. Anthems In Eden was followed by Love, Death & The Lady, and No Roses, recorded in 1971 with the Albion Country Band, and a total of 27 musicians.

Collins married Ashley Hutchings in 1971. He left Steeleye Span and the couple created the all acoustic Etchingham Steam Band with Terry Potter, Ian Holder and Vic Gamon. The Etchingham's repertoire was drawn from the traditional music of Sussex. With Albion

Country Band, performing traditional material on a mixture of modern (electric) and mediaeval instruments, Collins recorded The Prospect Before Us.

1978's For As Many As Will was the last studio album recorded by Shirley and Dolly Collins. Collins retired from public performance, although she continues to lecture and to appear on radio as an authority on traditional music. In 2004, she was awarded a Gold Badge by the English Folk Dance and Song Society and became patron of the South East Folk Arts Network in 2006. She was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services to music in the Queen's New Year's Honours List, announced 30th December 2006. On 14th April, 2007, she was awarded an Honorary Degree by the Open University, for a "Notable contribution to education and culture".

With actor Pip Barnes, she tours with her three illustrated talks "America over the Water" (about her field trip in the Southern States of America with Alan Lomax), "A Most Sunshiny Day" (about the traditional music of England and Sussex in particular) and "I'm a Romany Rai" (about the Gypsy singers and songs of Southern England).

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