Folk Roots, New Routes

by Shirley Collins & Davy Graham

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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

  • English Folk Music
  • Folk Baroque

Tracklist

  1. Nottamun Town
  2. Proud Maisrie
  3. The Cherry Tree Carol
  4. Blue Monk
  5. Hares On The Mountain
  6. Reynardine
  7. Pretty Saro
  8. Rif Mountain
  9. Jane, Jane
  10. Love Is Pleasin'
  11. Boll Weevil, Holler
  12. Hori Horo
  13. Bad Girl
  14. Lord Gregory
  15. Grooveyard
  16. Dearest Dear