Tracklist:

The Recruited Collier
The Doffing Mistress
Polly Vaughan
Rosemary Lane
Gathering Rushes in the Month of May
The Stonecutter Boy

Blackwater Side
Go Your Own Way (My Love)
Reynardine
Maa Bonny Lad
Living By the Water
Sing a Song for You

A Collection of Anne Briggs Topic recordings on high quality vinyl

‘If I hadn’t heard her, I’d have probably done something entirely different.’ June Tabor

Anne Briggs was born in Nottinghamshire in 1944 and began singing in local folk clubs in her teens. Her break came through the Centre 42 tour of 1962. This was a distinctly leftist group of artists, writers, actors and musicians whose lofty aim was to make arts and culture accessible to the masses. Local artists were invited to audition where Ewan MacColl first heard Briggs’ remarkable voice and persuaded her to join the tour. There Briggs met MacColl’s broader minded comrade A.L. ‘Bert’