Anne Briggs – A Collection

Anne Briggs, a free spirit of the 1960s, was also one of the most distinctive and influential singers on the folk scene.

‘If I hadn’t heard her,’ says June Tabor, ‘I’d have probably done something entirely different.’
“She was,” writes Colin Harper in his accompanying biographical essay, “as the best of the music itself was, sexy, wild, mysterious, otherworldly and vulnerable all at the same time.”

A Collection gathers scattered tracks from rare compilations together with her eponymous Topic album of 1971.

Anne Briggs vocal, guitar (13 & 16), bouzouki (15 & 21)
with
Johnny Moynihan bouzouki (15)
Ray Fisher vocal (12)

1 The Recruited Collier
2 The Doffing Mistress
3 She Moves Through the Fair
4 Let No Man Steal Your Thyme
5 Lowlands
6 My Bonny Boy
7 Polly Vaughan
8 Rosemary Lane
9 Gathering Rushes in the Month of May
10 The Whirly Whorl
11 The Stonecutter Boy
12 Martinmas Time
13 Blackwater Side
14 The Snow It Melts the Soonest
15 Willie O’Winsbury
16 Go Your Way
17 Thorneymoor Woods
18 The Cuckoo
19 Reynardine
20 Young Tambling
21 Living By the Water
22 Maa Bonny Lad