Shirley Collins · Sweet England

Label: Moved by sound / Genre: Country · Folk · Blues

TRACKS FOR SWEET ENGLAND
1. sweet england
2. hares on the mountain
3. hori-horo
4. the bonny irish boy
5. the tailor and the mouse
6. the lady and the swine
7. turpin hero
8. the cuckoo
9. the bonny labouring boy
10. the cherry tree carol
11. sweet william
12. omie wise
13. blackbirds and thrushes
14. a keeper went hunting
15. polly vaughan
16. pretty saro
17. barbara allen
18. charlie

recorded 67 years ago,
reisued in Shirley's 90th year in this universe.

'Sweet England' along with its sister album 'False True Lovers', was recorded in the spring of 1958 when I was twenty-two years old. I had been living for the previous two years in London with Alan Lomax, the American folklorist, working for him as editorial assistant on his book The Folk Songs of North America and on his field recordings from America, Great Britain, Italy and Spain. The tracks that make up these two albums were recorded by Peter Kennedy and Alan in two days at Peter's home 'studio' in Belsize Park. English traditional music, at its best, expresses and provides everything in song that I need and feel, both musically and emotionally. Sweet England represents the first shaky steps of a journey that I have been on all my life, and that, happily, I still am." (shirley collins)

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