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"Essential Autumn
listening!"
Our newly-released Anne Briggs - Four Songs
EP has received very positive responses throughout the press. Last month Folk Radio UK published a lengthy new
interview with Anne that focused on her early years as a travelling musician and
the time around Four Songs. Earlier this week BBC Radio4
broadcast a wonderful half-hour interview with Anne - The Voices of Annie Briggs. A further feature is due
to be published in the next issue of fROOTS.  Four Songs, as the title
suggests, collects together four previously unreleased recordings - three BBC
recordings from the radio series ‘Folk-Song Cellar’, plus one song privately
recorded by one of Anne’s oldest friends - on a beautifully presented vinyl 7"
EP. These rare, simple, unadorned and intimate performances, aching with
poignancy, make their first appearance on record, fifty years after recording
and capture Anne Briggs singing at just the right time in her brief singing
career. Anne herself has been very excited about the project: “…the
results couldn't have been better. Nice the way it came about too, with lost
recordings and old friends caring for them for decades.”
Track
list: 1 The Recruited Collier, 2 My Bonny Boy (A Bower In My Breast), 3 Polly
Vaughan, 4 The Verdant Braes Of Skreen.
MARTIN SIMPSON and DOM FLEMONS proudly present a
selection of Ever Popular Favourites will be released on
Friday October 7th on CD / LP / DL.
Track list: 1 My Money
Never Runs Out, 2 John Hardy, 3 If I Lose, 4 Little Sadie, 5 Pay Day, 6 Short
Times Come Again No More, 7 Too Long (I’ve Been Gone), 8 Bulldoze Blues, 9
Stealin’, 10 Champagne Charlie, 11 Coalman Blues, 12 Buckeye
Jim. MARTIN SIMPSON ~ vocals, guitar, banjo DOM
FLEMONS ~ vocals, bones, banjo, quills, harmonica, electric
kettle You can follow this link to preview John Hardy You might care to purchase an
exclusive set of four Ever Popular Favourites pinned insignia.
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Nic Jones (Born 9th January 1947)
