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

"Shirley Collins' collaboration with the Albion Country Band for No Roses is considered a major event in the history of British folk and British folk-rock. For it was the first time that Collins, roundly acknowledged as one of the best British traditional folk singers, sang with electric accompaniment, and indeed one of the first times that a British traditional folk musician had 'gone electric' in the wake of Dave Swarbrick joining Fairport Convention and Martin Carthy joining Steeleye Span. The album itself doesn't sound too radical, however. At times it sounds something like Fairport Convention with Shirley Collins on lead vocals, which is unsurprising given the presence of Ashley Hutchings on all cuts but one, and Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol on most of the selections (Dave Mattacks plays drums on a few tracks for good measure). The nine songs are almost wholly traditional tunes with Collins' arrangements, with perhaps a jauntier and folkier mood than that heard in early-'70s Fairport, though not much. It's more impressive for Collins' always tasteful smoky vocals than for the imagination of the material, which consolidates the sound of the more traditional wing of early-'70s British folk-rock."
Shirley Collins - Banjo, Guitar, Vocals
Lol Coxhill - Sax (Alto), Saxophone
Steve Migden - French Horn
Alan Cave - Bassoon
Trevor Crozier - Jew's-Harp
Alan Lumsden - Sac
Colin Ross - Northumbrian Smallpipes, Pipe
Dave Bland - Concertina, Dulcimer
Tony Hall - Melodeon
Gregg Butler - Serp, Serpent
Nic Jones - Fiddle, Violin, Vocals
Barry Dransfield - Fiddle, Guitar, Violin, Vocals
Francis Baines - Guitar, Hurdygurdy
Simon Nicol - Guitar, Vocals
Tim Renwick - Guitar
Richard Thompson - Guitar
John Kirkpatrick - Accordion
Dolly Collins - Piano, Vocals
Ian Whiteman - Piano
Ashley Hutchings - Bass
Dave Mattacks - Drums, Stick
Roger Powell - Drums
Maddy Prior - Vocals
Roy Wood - Vocals
Lal Waterson - Vocals
Mike Waterson - Vocals



1. Claudy Banks 4:36
2. The Little Gypsy Girl 2:15
3. Banks of the Bann 3:38
4. Murder of Maria Marten 7:24
5. Van Dieman's Land 4:58
6. Just as the Tide Was a 'Flowing 2:12
7. The White Hare 2:43
8. Hal-An-Tow 2:53
9. Poor Murdered Woman 4:19


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