False True Lovers

by Shirley Collins

False True Lovers cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1959
  • Label: Folkways
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 12:07
  • Community rating: 3.47/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded during her influential field-recording trip through the American South alongside Alan Lomax, this intimately captured debut showcases the vocalist's unadorned interpretation of traditional British Isles balladry. Accompanied primarily by her own simple, ringing banjo playing, her remarkably pure, vibrato-less delivery establishes a deeply authentic link to centuries-old oral traditions. The release laid essential groundwork for the impending British folk revival movement of the 1960s.

Genres

Descriptors: folk, acoustic

Tracklist

  1. I Drew My Ship (2:24)
  2. The Irish Boy (1:37)
  3. The Spermwhale Fishery (2:41)
  4. Dennis O'Reilly (2:06)
  5. My Bonny Miner Lad (1:51)
  6. Just as the Tide Was Flowing (1:21)
  7. Bobby Shaftoe (1:23)
  8. Richie Story (4:07)
  9. The Unquiet Grave (4:12)
  10. The Swapping Song (1:30)
  11. Poor Old Horse (1:11)
  12. The False True Love (3:51)
  13. The Foggy Dew (2:25)
  14. Mowing the Barley (0:56)
  15. Scarborough Fair (1:40)
  16. The Cruel Mother (7:05)
  17. The Bonny Cuckoo (1:28)
  18. The Queen of May (1:50)
  19. Died for Love (1:50)

Credits

  • Malin Quick - lyrics by
  • Christer Rydell - music by

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