Shirley Collins Albion Country Band No Roses(1971)cdrip[FLAC]- torrent

Released October 1971
Recorded Summer 1971
Genre folk rock
Label Pegasus Records
Producer Sandy Roberton, Ashley Hutchings

Shirley Elizabeth Collins MBE (born 5 July 1935, Hastings, Sussex, England) is a significant contributor to the English Folk Revival of the 1950s and 1960s. She often performed and recorded with her sister Dolly, whose accompaniment on piano and portative organ created unique settings for her sister's plain, austere singing style.

No Roses is an album by Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band. It was recorded at Sound Techniques, and Air Studios in London, in the summer of 1971. It was produced by Sandy Roberton and Ashley Hutchings (Shirley Collins' husband at the time). It was released in October 1971 on the Pegasus label.

It is very unusual to have 27 musicians and singers on an album of traditional folk songs. It happened because people simply dropped in during recording sessions and were asked to join in. At the time, the most unusual sound was the hurdy-gurdy, now heard much more frequently. "The Murder of Maria Marten" is broken into segments, with a heavy-rock alternating with Shirley's voice accompanied by a simple drone. Shirley had used a similar technique on "One Night As I Lay on My Bed" on "Adieu To Old England".

Personnel
Shirley Collins - vocals
Ashley Hutchings - electric bass guitar
Richard Thompson - electric guitar, acoustic 12-string guitar
Maddy Prior - vocals
Colin Ross - Northumbrian small pipes
Simon Nicol - electric guitar
Lal and Mike Waterson - vocals
Royston Wood - vocals
Barry Dransfield - fiddle
Dave Bland - concertina, hammer dulcimer
Ian Whiteman - piano
Roger Powell - drums
Lol Coxhill - alto saxophone
Alan Cave - bassoon
Tony Hall - melodeon
Dave Mattacks - sticks, drums
Dolly Collins - piano
John Kirkpatrick - accordion
Nic Jones - vocals and fiddle
Tim Renwick - electric guitar, acoustic 12-string guitar
Francis Baines - hurdy-gurdy
Alan Lumsden - ophicleide
Steve Migden - French horn
Trevor Crozier - Jew's harp
[edit] Track listing
Claudy Banks (Trad, from Ron and Bob Copper)
Little Gipsy Girl (Trad)
Banks of The Bann (Trad)
Murder of Maria Marten (Trad)
Van Dieman's Land (Trad)
Just As The Tide Was A'Flowing (Trad)
White Hare (Trad)
Hal-An-Tow (Trad)
Poor Murdered Woman (Trad)