View basket “Circle Round Again” has been added to your basket. Heart’s Ease Shirley Collins SKU: 22.00 24.00 £22.00 - £24.00 £22.00 - £24.00 Genre: Folk Label: Domino Released Date: 24th July 2020 Buying Format: 1LP Deluxe Sleeve Includes Download Code 1LP Includes Download Code Buying Options Choose an option1LP Deluxe Sleeve Includes Download Code1LP Includes Download CodeClear Heart’s Ease quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info On the 24th July 2020, Shirley Collins will release Heart’s Ease, her second album for Domino. Heart’s Ease follows 2016’s Lodestar; which on its arrival, seemed like a musical miracle – an enthralling new LP from a woman who is widely acknowledged as England’s greatest female folk singer, but who had not recorded an album for 38 years. With Heart’s Ease, Shirley delivers a record even stronger than Lodestar having completely regained her confidence, and singing so well that you can’t believe she was away for so long. As Shirley put it, “Lodestar wasn’t too bad, was it? But when I listen to it, it does sometimes sound rather tentative. I had to record it at home because I was just too nervous to sing in front of somebody I didn’t know. This time I was far more relaxed – even though I went into a studio.” Recorded at Metway in Brighton, Heart’s Ease is as compelling and original as Shirley’s great albums from the Sixties and Seventies. There are traditional songs, of course, from England and the USA, but there are also more new songs than in the past (four non-traditional tracks) and there’s even a burst of experimentation that hints at possible new directions to come. The first song to be shared from Heart’s Ease is “Wondrous Love”; its tune comes from an 18th Century English ballad about the infamous sea captain William Kidd, who was hanged for piracy in 1701. Collins first heard the hymn at a Sacred Harp Convention in Alabama (Collins and Alan Lomax recorded it on their field recording trip in 1959). Shirley has decided to sing it now, she said, “because songs are stored in my memory for a great many years, and suddenly it seems the right time to bring them out again.” — In the years between For As Many As Will (1978) and the release of Lodestar, Shirley suffered from a form of dysphonia, had lost her singing voice, and was never expected to sing again – certainly not in public. Lodestar was a delightful surprise to all her fans and the folk community, and once Shirley had started to sing again, she was not going to stop. “I’m absolutely consumed by this music,” she said. “I have always loved it so much. I’m still learning songs and just want to keep learning them. I thought ‘somebody has got to sing these songs, so it might as well be me!” Collins followed Lodestar with a remarkable blitz of activity for a lady in her eighties. There was a film, and soundtrack album, The Ballad of Shirley Collins. There was a new autobiography, All in the Downs, which won the Penderyn Music Book Prize (beating the Beastie Boys). And there were high-profile come-back concerts, including a memorable appearance at London’s Barbican, at which she was backed by an exceptional group of friends and musicians, the Lodestar Band. She may have felt nervous being back on stage, “but I feel so supported by that band. And every song I sing I love anyway – it’s not a hardship to sing the songs!”. All of which is reflected in her second come-back album, Heart’s Ease. Collins’ intriguing choice of songs on Heart’s Ease includes two with lyrics by her first husband Austin John Marshall, a graphic artist and poet who produced several of her albums and had the inspired idea of getting Shirley to work with blues/jazz/world music guitarist Davy Graham on that extraordinary album Folk Roots, New Routes in 1964. There are more family memories with “Locked In Ice”, written by Dolly’s son the late Buz Collins and the most startling new piece is the finale, “Crowlink”, named after a pathway on the South Downs overlooking the English Channel “where I love to be,” in which Shirley sings against a moody, atmospheric fusion of Ossian Brown’s hurdy-gurdy, and electronica and field recordings of waves and sea birds from Matthew Shaw. Heart’s Ease is a glorious reminder that Shirley Collins is still in a class of her own, both as a folk singer with a distinctive no-nonsense style that is all her own, and as an innovator. And she certainly doesn’t intend this album to be her last. “I have such a huge memory of songs, so many of which I still want to sing. And I wasted all those years not singing, so now I’ve got to catch up a bit!” Artist Shirley Collins Genre Folk Label Domino Buying Options 1LP Deluxe Sleeve Includes Download Code , 1LP Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings 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 Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Shirley Collins View Product Quick View Shirley Collins Archangel Hill Folk | Domino | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 26th May 2023 £22.00 - £23.00 Select options Shirley Collins Archangel Hill £22.00 - £23.00 Genre: Folk Label: Domino Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 26th May 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Shirley Collins An Introduction To Folk | Vinyl 180 | 1LP Released 20th October 2017 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Shirley Collins An Introduction To £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: Vinyl 180 SKU: VIN180LP126 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th October 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Shirley Collins Lodestar Folk | Domino | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 1st November 2016 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Shirley Collins Lodestar £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: Domino SKU: WIGLP389 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 1st November 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Shirley Collins The Foggy Dew Folk | Fledgling | 7", Single Released 15th September 2014 £7.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Shirley Collins The Foggy Dew £7.00 Genre: Folk Label: Fledgling SKU: WING1001 Formats: 7", Single Released Date: 15th September 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Shirley Collins Heroes In Love Folk | Fledgling | 7", Single Released 15th September 2014 £7.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Shirley Collins Heroes In Love £7.00 Genre: Folk Label: Fledgling SKU: STOP2095 Formats: 7", Single Released Date: 15th September 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more from Shirley Collins Start again More from Folk View Product Quick View King Creosote Rocket D.I.Y. 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