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"HiGH ▀ iNTELLiGeNCE tRoLLS"
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a r t i s t : Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band
t i t l e : No Roses
d a t e : 2004
l a b e l : Castle Records
g e n r e : Folk
r l s. d a t e : February/2005
t r a c k s : 09
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 55,7 MB
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Shirley Collins' collaboration with the Albion Country Band for
No Roses is considered a major event in the history of British
folk and British folk-rock. For it was the first time that
Collins, roundly acknowledged as one of the best British
traditional folk singers, sang with electric accompaniment, and
indeed one of the first times that a British traditional folk
musician had "gone electric" in the wake of Dave Swarbrick
joining Fairport Convention and Martin Carthy joining Steeleye
Span. The album itself doesn't sound too radical, however. At
times it sounds something like Fairport Convention with Shirley
Collins on lead vocals, which is unsurprising given the
presence of Ashley Hutchings on all cuts but one, and Richard
Thompson and Simon Nicol on most of the selections (Dave
Mattacks plays drums on a few tracks for good measure). The
nine songs are almost wholly traditional tunes with Collins'
arrangements, with perhaps a jauntier and folkier mood than
that heard in early-'70s Fairport, though not much. It's more
impressive for Collins' always tasteful smoky vocals than for
the imagination of the material, which consolidates the sound
of the more traditional wing of early-'70s British folk-rock.
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01-Claudy Banks [04:36]
02-The Little Gypsy Girl [02:16]
03-Banks of the Bann [03:39]
04-Murder of Maria Marten [07:24]
05-Van Dieman's Land [04:59]
06-Just As the Tide Was A 'Flowing [02:13]
07-The White Hare [02:44]
08-Hal-An-Tow [02:53]
09-Poor Murdered Woman [04:19]
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35:03 min
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