Shirley Collins & The Albion Country Band - No Roses (1971)

Year: October 1971 (CD ????)
Label: Castle Music (UK), CMRCD951
Style: British Folk Rock, Acoustic
Country: England
Time: 35:02
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 212 Mb

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 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. "The Murder of Maria Marten", a lengthy song about the Red Barn Murder, is broken into segments, with parts of British folk rock alternating with more traditional parts featuring Shirley Collins' voice and a hurdy-gurdy drone. Shirley Collins had used a similar technique on "One Night As I Lay on My Bed" on "Adieu to Old England".
Some songs, for instance "Poor Murdered Woman" and "Murder of Maria Marten", feature large parts of the Fairport Convention line-up of late 1969 (Liege and Lief). In fact, Fairport Convention member Ashley Hutchings appears on all, Simon Nicol and Richard Thompson on eight, and Dave Mattacks on three of the nine songs on this album.
Claudy Banks includes a composed duo performance by Alan Cave on bassoon and British free jazz saxophonist Lol Coxhill – his only performance ever in the context of British folk music. Hal-An-Tow features members of the two acclaimed folk vocal groups The Watersons (Lal and Mike Waterson) and The Young Tradition (Royston Wood). Both drummer Roger Powell and pianist Ian Whiteman previously played together in the band Mighty Baby.
The album title No Roses are the last words of the first verse of the folk song "The False Bride" ("I went down to the forest to gather fine flowers, but the forest won't yield me no roses."), which Shirley Collins sang on her EP Heroes in Love in 1963.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Roses)

01. Claudy Banks (04:36)
02. The Little Gypsy Girl (02:15)
03. Banks Of The Bann (03:38)
04. Murder Of Maria Marten (07:24)
05. Van Dieman's Land (04:58)
06. Just As The Tide Was A'Flowing (02:12)
07. The White Hare (02:43)
08. Hal-An-Tow (02:53)
09. Poor Murdered Woman (04:19)

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