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Purchasable with gift card. The Merry Golden Tree Rolling in the Dew The Christmas Song Locked In Ice Wondrous Love Barbara Allen Canadee-i-o Sweet Greens and Blues Tell Me True Whitsun Dance Orange In Bloom Crowlink But when I listen to it, it does sometimes sound rather tentative. This time I was far more relaxed — even though I went into a studio. Lomax and Collins began a romantic relationship which led to their undertaking a folk song collecting trip in the Southern states which lasted from July to November and resulted in many hours of recordings, featuring performers such as Almeda Riddle, Hobart Smith, and Bessie Jones and culminated in the discovery of Mississippi Fred McDowell.

The experience of her life with Lomax and the making of the recordings in religious communities, social gatherings, prisons and chain gangs was described in Collins's book America Over the Water published Back in Britain, Shirley Collins proceeded with her own singing career, and in a series of influential albums, she helped to introduce many innovations into the English folk revival.

Shirley Collins's seminal recording is considered by many to be Anthems in Eden, released in It featured a suite of songs centred on the changes in rural England brought about by the First World War.

The highly unusual combination of ancient instruments included rebecs, sackbuts, viols and crumhorns and hinted that the guitar was not the only appropriate accompaniment for the folk song. Several critics have suggested that it is impossible to imagine that electric accompaniment for traditional song, as successfully purveyed by Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span, could have developed quite as it did without the pioneering 'Anthems In Eden'.

All these recordings strove to marry a deep love and understanding of the English folk music heritage with a more contemporary attitude to musical settings.

Shirley Collins married Ashley Hutchings in The Etchingham's repertoire was drawn from the traditional music of Sussex. Shirley Collins soon retired from public performance, although she continues to lecture and to appear on radio as an authority on traditional music. Add to Favorites I like Tweet.