As a key figure in the British
folk revival, this recording originally produced for
Folkways in 1959 presents
Shirley Collins at a tender age of 23 recording under the eye of legendary
Folkways producer and then partner
Alan Lomax assisted by pragmatic engineer
Peter Kennedy. Recorded in London in a two-day marathon, the most distinctive voice in British
folk song interpretation recorded this album of
a cappella renditions of British and Irish tunes. Inflecting the collection with Appalachian gems she and
Lomax had discovered in one of their legendary research jaunts the same year,
False True Lovers is as vital a collection of this astonishing singer that exhibits the full spectrum of her interest and research into
folk music tradition. As with the
Sweet England collection re-issued in 2000 on
Topic, her voice is captured in intimacy and naivete that carried through her '60s landmarks
Love, Death and the Lady and
Anthems in Eden. This album is as striking as either masterpiece, a work of profound beauty. ~ Skip Jansen
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