Shirley Collins - Death And The Lady (Official Video)
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2016
- Shirley Collins - Death And The Lady (Official Video) taken from the new album Lodestar out now.
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Legendary folk singer and one of England’s most respected song collectors has announced her return to recording after 38 years. With the new album, Lodestar, Shirley has created the unlikeliest release of the century so far.
Lodestar is a collection of English, American and Cajun songs dating from the 16th Century to the 1950s, recorded at Shirley’s home in Lewes by Stephen Thrower and Ossian Brown of Cyclobe and produced and musically directed by Ian Kearey.
The first track to be shared from Lodestar is ‘Cruel Lincoln’. Shirley explains the history of the song: “This is an ancient ballad, found only rarely in England. The theory is that Cruel Lincoln was a mason who was not paid for the work he did for ‘the Lord of the Manor’ and so extracted a terrible revenge”. It also features bird song recorded at the back of Shirley’s cottage.
Born in Hastings in 1935, Shirley was fascinated by folk songs as she was growing up, songs she heard on the radio or sung by her grandparents in Anderson shelters. She left home for London to immerse herself in the burgeoning folk scene; at a party held by Ewan MacColl she met Alan Lomax, and in 1959 she joined him in the USA on the renowned field trip ‘Southern Journey’, recording American folk songs and blues, a formative journey for her personally and professionally.
On her return to England, Shirley cemented her role at the forefront of the Folk Revival, recording over a dozen albums including the influential Folk Roots, New Routes with avant-garde guitarist Davy Graham, and No Roses, from which The Albion Country Band was formed. However, in the 1980s, Shirley lost her singing voice - later diagnosed as a form of dysphonia - and withdrew from performing live. It was only in 2014, after coaxing from David Tibet (Current 93), that Shirley sang in public for the first time since 1982.
Though Shirley Collins (MBE) has been absent from the music scene for many years, her impact has not diminished, the likes of Graham Coxon, Jonny Greenwood, Stewart Lee and Angel Olsen laud her and a documentary The Ballad of Shirley Collins is currently in progress. Additionally, she was given the ‘Good Tradition’ award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2008, elected President of the English Folk Dance & Song Society in the same year and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Music from Sussex University this year. Shirley released her first memoir, America Over the Water, in 2004 and is currently working on her second book.
Now Shirley Collins has sung once more (with a mischievous delight in defeating expectation), the accepted canon of her great recordings will have to be comprehensively recalibrated, yet again.
“Shirley is a time traveller, a conduit for essential human aches, one of the greatest artists who ever lived, and yet utterly humble” Stewart Lee
Director: Nick Abrahams
Producer: Dhiraj Mahey
DoP: Ole Birkeland
Camera assistant: Alexandra Voikou
Editor: John Maloney
Assistant Director: Yah-wan McClelland - Scott
Stills Photographer: Toby Amies
Scrawl: Geoff Cox
Sound Design: Jens Petersen
Corn Dollies created by Cathy Ward.
Special thanks to: Rev’d Andrew Sweeney, Suzanne Maylon, Sally McCleery, Polly Marshall, Bart Mcdonagh, Brooke Salisbury, Barry Measure, Becky Bazzard, John Claude, Haridas Stewart and Adam Biskupski.
Filmed on location at St Leonard’s Church, Hythe & Kennel Farm, Little Missenden.
A Primal Pictures Production.
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So refreshing to see a traditional folk song with a full video shot for it! I've been trawling for hours. This is incredibly arresting.
All so very.interesting indeed, so glad to have caught onto. Shirley Collins, I haven’t stopped listening to her since I came across her. But ,having been listening to Shirley, I have never stopped listening to folk, and folk rock. Highly talented musicians, such as Ashley Hutchins, The Albion Country Band are just awesome.
The Source and like water to a person dying of thirst in these times of plastic pop and media untruths. So happy to find this Lady singing again.
russ miller Right?!?
This stopped me in my tracks. Stunningly beautiful. Shades of Nico, Nick Drake and Robert Wyatt! This is the highest compliment I can give. Shirley Collins is wonderful. Leave it to Domino, my favorite label. Always bringing the goods. Thanks for this gem.
Andy Trullinger Do you know the NO ROSES album by Shirley with The Albion Country Band?
Fantastic!
Great bottleneck guitar!
Fabulous Shirley , lovely music. Oh Death may chase us, but there's a merry dance we may play before he comes calling
The merry dance can go on for long.
@@paulwhitehead87 but not forever ;)
So beautifully resung. Lovely film too
I'm so happy to have just discovered Shirley. This song is profoundly moving and I love the imagery of the corn dollies, the horses, the bird nesting in the skull and Shirley's kind face.
Yes!! Great video for an impressive song.
Magnificent in it's quiet, haunting beauty. Shirley, I love you! Wonderful, as ever!
What a beautiful rendition, it goes even deeper than the 1970 version
That guitar 🤘.....
Saw her at the Roundhouse about 18 months ago.....admire her so much!!
Stunning piece of art, wonderful folk music, more than a hint of a chuckle in there too.
Absolutely beautiful just love Shirley ❤
I am so excited for this new album! Absolutely love all these songs. How enchanting. Hope there will be a tour planned! That's probably asking too much. Very very moved and touched and happy!
Surreal!
Very poetic imagery, to a haunting song.
Bloody blimey, this is good.
Wonderful!
So moving, so beautiful. Was not aware of this new release till I heard her fascinating interview on this podcast: The Quietus Hour. Highly recommend to lovers of Ms. Collins.
Great!
As I walked out one morn in May
The birds did sing and the lambs did play,
The birds did sing and the lambs did play;
I met an old man,
I met an old man by the way.
His head was bald, his beard was grey,
His coat was of a myrtle shade,
I asked him what strange countryman,
Or what strange place,
Or what strange place he did belong.
“My name is Death, cannot you see?
Lords, dukes and ladies bow down to me.
And you are one of those branches three,
And you fair maid,
And you fair maid must come with me.”
“I'll give you gold and jewels rare,
I'll give you costly robes to wear,
I'll give you all my wealth in store,
If you'll let me live,
If you'll let me live a few years more.”
“Fair lady, lay your robes aside,
No longer glory in your pride.
And now, sweet maid, make no delay,
Your time is come,
Your time is come and you must away.”
And not long after this fair maid died;
“Write on my tomb,” the lady cried,
“Here lies a poor distressed maid,
Whom Death now lately,
Whom Death now lately hath betrayed.”
His hair was white, his beard was grey*
Read about her in MOJO magazine. My first try, it won't be my last.I must get the album.
Marvelous
beautiful
Hermosa canción, maravillosa mujer, triste despedida...
Wonderful
Astonishing.
Wonderful. It brought tears to my eyes. Where is the charnel house? Is it Hythe Kent?
Bravo!
And now I seriously want a bird to lay eggs in my skull when I'm gone.
Brilliant.
magic
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Go Shirley!!!
Brill.
😘happy new year 👑
awesome
beauty is myriad
One of the true giants. Sad that she could not find a way to record music through all those quiet years, but I understand it. Nonetheless, her legacy is greatness.
Wild
I'd love to know how to play this.
What tuning is this in?
Well, different...yea..Good.
Thinking.......... ..
Gone, gone it has all gone.
Isn't the charnel house in Cambodia?
Well filmed and performed, but isn’t it odd that among all the credits the musicians playing it are not mentioned.
Who's the guitarist?
Ian Kearey - musical director for Lodestar, and Shirley's new album Heart's Ease, out 24th July.
I would love to learn this is there any tab or sheet music
singing on Domino. Yes.
My name is death
Can not you see
@ColoredSpaces
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Great version and very moving. If you like this check out Jonny Cash's version of 'Hurt' it had the same effect on me.
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