Folk Roots, New Routes

by Shirley Collins & Davy Graham

Folk Roots, New Routes cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: March 1964
  • Label: Decca
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 49:31
  • Community rating: 3.99/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Davy Graham

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Shirley Collins provides unadorned, traditional vocal interpretations of English folk songs over Davy Graham's highly complex guitar accompaniment. Graham introduces jazz chords, Moroccan tunings, and intricate fingerstyle techniques to the material, actively laying the foundation for the British folk baroque movement.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, acoustic, melodic, technical, atmospheric, progressive, female-vocals, traditional, folk, guitars, genre-blending

Tracklist

  1. Nottamun Town (3:40)
  2. Proud Maisrie (4:03)
  3. The Cherry Tree Carol (3:20)
  4. Blue Monk (3:06)
  5. Hares On The Mountain (3:00)
  6. Reynardine (2:31)
  7. Pretty Saro (4:18)
  8. Rif Mountain (2:26)
  9. Jane, Jane (2:42)
  10. Love Is Pleasin' (2:34)
  11. Boll Weevil, Holler (3:01)
  12. Hori Horo (2:15)
  13. Bad Girl (2:43)
  14. Lord Gregory (3:37)
  15. Grooveyard (3:03)
  16. Dearest Dear (3:05)

Credits

  • Shirley Collins - primary artist, written-by
  • Davy Graham - primary artist, written-by
  • Gus Dudgeon - engineer
  • Crispian Woodgate - photography by [cover]
  • Ray Horricks - producer
  • Cecil Sharp - arranged by
  • Traditional - written-by
  • Ewan MacColl - arranged by
  • Thelonious Monk - written-by
  • Unknown Artist - written-by
  • Herbert Hughes - arranged by
  • Peggy Seeger - arranged by
  • Alan Lomax - arranged by
  • Marjory Kennedy-Fraser - arranged by
  • Bobby Timmons - written-by

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