ANNE BRIGGS Anne Briggs LP TOPIC 1971 UK orig+mono 12T 207 BRITISH FOLK
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ANNE BRIGGS
Influential British folk singer/songwriter of the 1960s and ‘70s.
In the annals of pop and folk music, there are few sagas stranger than that of Anne Briggs.
An awesomely talented singer of traditional English folk music, possessing of as pure and breathtakingly
beautiful a voice as one could hope to have, she was the single most important influence on a group
of female British folksingers that includes Sandy Denny, Maddy Prior, June Tabor, and Linda Thompson.
Even Norma Waterson, herself a hugely important figure in the British folk revival of the mid-'60s,
admits to being influenced by Briggs' singing, and notes that Anne Briggs singlehandedly changed the way
that English women folksingers sang. What makes this story so odd is that Briggs' entire recorded output
consists of about 30 songs. She stopped singing at the age of 27, supposedly because she hated the sound
of her recorded voice. As folk music became electrified and increasingly popular, and bands such
as Fairport Convention and Pentangle were reinventing the British folk tradition, and more
and more women (Sandy Denny, et al.) were singing in a style started by Briggs,
her legend flourished, yet she refused to sing
"ANNE BRIGGS"
1971 LP TOPIC RECORDS MONO 12T 207
MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING
Released on a blue/silver Topic label in a sleeve printed by Robert Stace.
This version: 'First published by Topic 1971' on labels
LAMINATED COVER (on front)
Barcode and Other Identifiers
LABEL: TOPIC - BLUE LABEL - SILVER TEXT
Catalog on cover: (spine & rear) 12T 207
Catalog on labels: 12T 207 / 12T 207
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): 407.A-1A
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): 407.B-1A
On labels: Made in England
Topic Records. Ltd., 27 Nassington Road, London, NW3 2TX
First published by Topic 1971
Mono
All Rights Reserved
Right Society: M.C.P.S.
On back cover: Recorded by Sean Davies 1971
First published by Topic 1971
Notes by A.L. Lloyd
Production by A.L. Loyd
Printed in England by Robert Stace
from my records collection
tracklisting
Side A: BLACKWATER SLIDE - THE SNOW IT MELTS THE SOONEST
WILLIE O WINSBURY - GO YOUR WAY - THORNEYMOOR WOODS
Side B: THE CUCKOO - REYNARDINE
YOUNG TAMBLING - LIVING BY THE WATER - MAA BONNY LAD
grading
RECORD from VG to VG+ but (please, read also above description)
SLEEVE VG(+) but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Briggs had recorded a pair of EPs and contributed to some compilation albums in the 1960s
but didn't recorded a full LP until 1971, when she cut her full-length debut for the well-respected
British folk label Topic Records. Of Briggs' three albums, Anne Briggs is easily the purest
and most austere; Briggs sings a cappella on six of the ten songs, and on the rest
she's accompanied only by an acoustic guitar or bouzouki, and the production is clean
and straightforward, as if a microphone was placed in the room with Briggs
and the results were put to tape with no further filtering or manipulation.
Briggs' voice is stunning in its clarity and her command of her instrument is complete
on these ten selections, but what makes this album a lasting classic
is Briggs' gift as an interpreter...(AllMusic)
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