A Collection

by Anne Briggs

A Collection cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 22 June 1999
  • Label: Rykodisc
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:16:17
  • Community rating: 3.73/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A compilation of recordings by Anne Briggs, the English folk singer whose unaccompanied singing and guitar work influenced the British folk revival. The set gathers her Topic and CBS material from the 1960s and early 1970s, including songs that entered the repertoires of Bert Jansch and Sandy Denny.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, storytelling, folk, vocal, melodic

Tracklist

  1. The Recruited Collier (2:37)
  2. The Doffing Mistress (1:27)
  3. She Moves Through the Fair (2:19)
  4. Let No Man Steal Your Thyme (1:49)
  5. Lowlands (3:15)
  6. My Bonny Boy (2:53)
  7. Polly Vaughan (4:25)
  8. Rosemary Lane (2:44)
  9. Gathering Rushes in the Month of May (4:51)
  10. The Whirly Whorl (1:17)
  11. The Stonecutter Boy (1:57)
  12. Martinmas Time (4:56)
  13. Blackwater Side (3:54)
  14. The Snow It Melts the Soonest (2:23)
  15. Willie O Winsbury (5:32)
  16. Go Your Way (4:14)
  17. Thorneymoor Woods (3:36)
  18. The Cuckoo (3:11)
  19. Reynardine (3:00)
  20. Young Tambling (10:44)
  21. Living by the Water (3:55)
  22. Maa Bonny Lad (1:18)

Credits

  • Anne Briggs - primary artist, vocals, guitar, bouzouki, guitar, written-by, bouzouki, written-by
  • A. L. Lloyd - sleeve notes [original notes on the topic releases]
  • Tony Engle - compilation producer
  • John Haxby - design [digital sleeve design]
  • Brian Shuel - photography by
  • Colin Harper - sleeve notes
  • Traditional - written-by

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