Shirley Collins (British folk singer)

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siblings:	Dolly Collins (British folk musician)
married:	Austin John Mitchell

Discogs:	https://www.discogs.com/artist/236336 [info]
official homepages:	http://www.shirleycollins.co.uk/ [info]
other databases:	https://mainlynorfolk.info/shirley.collins/ [info] https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/shirley_collins [info]
BBC Music:	https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/d7db2c9e-40f1-451a-b868-782b6dce7fbf [info] (until 2020-11-19)
stream for free:	https://open.spotify.com/artist/5rilpZJIb2NWJZVGtCdg6u [info] https://www.deezer.com/artist/11378302 [info]
Allmusic:	https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000024568 [info]
VIAF ID:	143334511 [info]
Wikidata:	Q528937 [info]
Last.fm:	https://www.last.fm/music/Shirley+Collins [info]

Appearances

Date	Title	Credited As	Attributes	Artist	Length
	arranged
	Idumæa (vocals Shirley Collins)			Current 93	2:42
	Just as the Tide Was a 'Flowing			Shirley Collins & The Albion Country Band	2:12
	field recordist for
1959-10-12	Blow Gabriel			John Davis, Bessie Jones & St. Simon's Island Singers	2:26
	instruments
	A Caroling in the Dark / Good King Wenceslas / Good King Wenceslas / This Is the Truth Sent From Above / The Holly and the Ivy / The Holly and the Ivy		banjo	Alan Lomax / Children's Choir / Bryan Newey Skiffle Group / Shirley Collins / The Haddo House Choir / The Skinner's Bottom Glee Singers	4:58
	Hark, What News the Angels Bring / I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In / Wassail, Wassail, All Over This Town / Here We Come a-Wassailing		banjo	Carolers at the Cheshire Cheese Public House / Charlie Bate, Peter Kennedy & Others / Shirley Collins / Birmingham Studio Group	3:07
	Two Brethren (demo, 1966: London; produced by Austin John Marshall)		five-string banjo	Shirley Collins	2:53
	performed
	All the Pretty Little Horses (Shirley Collins vocals)			Current 93	2:55
	produced
	61 Highway Blues		assistant	Fred McDowell	3:08
	Alan Bain		assistant	Almeda Riddle	5:07
	Anything, with commentary		assistant	Neil Morris	2:42
	Berta, Berta		assistant	Leroy Miller, with hoe group	4:43
	Beulah Land		assistant	John Davis & Bessie Jones	4:20
	Black Annie (1959 recording)		assistant	Hobart Smith	1:52
	Bonaparte's Retreat		assistant	Norman Edmonds	1:16
	Breaking Up Christmas		assistant	Norman Edmonds	2:00
	Buffalo Gals		assistant	Bookmiller Shannon	0:57
	Bury Me Beneath the Willow		assistant	Almeda Riddle	3:25
	Clarksdale Mill Blues		assistant	John Dudley	2:21
	Cluck Old Hen		assistant	Wade Ward	0:58
	Cotton-Eyed Joe		assistant	Bookmiller Shannon	0:54
	Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby		assistant	Mrs. Sidney Carter	1:03
	Dollar Mamie		assistant	Ed Lewis with prisoners	2:47
	Down in Arkansas		assistant	Almeda Riddle	2:28
	Down in Arkansas Among the Sticks		assistant	Bookmiller Shannon	1:05
	Eighth of January		assistant	Bookmiller Shannon	0:56
	Emmaline, Take Your Time		assistant	Sid Hemphill & Lucius Smith	1:43
	Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Girl		assistant	Hobart Smith	2:39
	Fred McDowell's Blues		assistant	Fred McDowell, Miles Pratcher & Fanny Davis	4:12
	Germany Blues		assistant	Fred McDowell	3:11
	God's Unchanging Hand		assistant	Anderson Burton & Congregation	1:44
	Graveyard Blues		assistant	Hobart Smith	3:23
	Guide Me o Thou Great Jehovah		assistant	Ike Caudill & The Thornton Old Regular Baptist Church Congregation	2:21
	Hicks' Farewell		assistant	Texas Gladden	2:11
	I Wonder Will We Meet Again?		assistant	Rev. Crenshaw & congregation	6:14
	I'm Goin' Home		assistant	Ervin Webb & prisoners	3:22
	I'm Gonna Live Anyhow 'Till I Die		assistant	Miles Pratcher & Bob Pratcher	2:35
	If It's All Night Long		assistant	Miles Pratcher & Bob Pratcher	3:02
	Interview		assistant	Ervin Webb	0:53
	Interview / Cripple Creek		assistant	Charlie Higgins, Wade Ward & Dale Poe	2:50
	It Just Suits Me (excerpt)		assistant	Hobart Smith & Bessie Jones	2:21
	It Rained a Mist		assistant	Ollie Gilbert	2:25
	Jim and John (no vocals, tape T893, track 3)		assistant	Ed Young, Lonnie Young & Lonnie Young, Jr.	2:13
	John Henry		assistant	Glen Stoneman	2:49
	June Apple		assistant	Charlie Higgins & Wade Ward	3:12
	Katy Went Fishing With Her Hook and Line (1960 recording)		assistant	Hobart Smith	1:59
	Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning		assistant	Fred McDowell	2:45
	Little Sally Walker		assistant	Mattie Gardner, Ida Mae Towns & Jesse Lee Pratcher	0:52
	Lonesome Dove		assistant	Almeda Riddle	5:36
	Lord Batesman		assistant	Ollie Gilbert	3:20
	Lord Have Mercy		assistant	Fred McDowell	1:53
	Louisiana		assistant	Henry Ratcliff	1:43
	Mama Lucy		assistant	Leroy Gary	1:36
	Mama's Gonna Buy		assistant	Vera Ward Hall	1:34
	Merry Golden Tree		assistant	Almeda Riddle	5:17
	Music Has No End, With Commentary		assistant	Neil Morris	1:18
	My Prettiest Girl Is Gone		assistant	Absie Morrison	1:50
	Nancy's Got a Pretty Dress On		assistant	Absie Morrison	1:24
	O Day (excerpt)		assistant	Bessie Jones	1:53
	Old Devil's Dream		assistant	Sid Hemphill & Lucius Smith	1:49
	Old Joe Clark		assistant	Wade Ward	1:52
	Once I Courted a Lady Beauty Bright		assistant	Ollie Gilbert	1:40
	Parson Burrs		assistant	Hobart Smith	2:22
	Peg an' Awl (1959 recording)		assistant	Hobart Smith	2:18
	Pharaoh		assistant	Sidney Carter	4:26
	Piney Woods Gal		assistant	Charlie Higgins & Wade Ward	1:35
	Po' Boy Blues		assistant	John Dudley	3:19
	Po' Lazarus		assistant	Bright Light Quartet	2:05
	Poor Ellen Smith		assistant	E.C. Ball	1:59
	Poor Wayfaring Stranger		assistant	Almeda Riddle	3:02
	Pretty Polly		assistant	Estil C. Ball	2:30
	Pretty Polly Oliver		assistant	Ollie Gilbert	2:30
	Rainbow 'Mid Life's Willows		assistant	Almeda Riddle	2:52
	Rock All the Babies to Sleep		assistant	Neil Morris	1:43
	Rolled and Tumbled		assistant	Rosalie Hill	2:54
	Sally Anne		assistant	George Stoneman	1:37
	Sally Goodin		assistant	Charlie Everidge	1:55
	Single Girl		assistant	Ruby Vass	2:16
	Sink 'em Low		assistant	Bessie Jones	3:39
	Soon One Mornin' (Death Come A-Creepin' in My Room)		assistant	Fred McDowell	3:18
	Sourwood Mountain (1959 recording)		assistant	Hobart Smith	1:28
	Stewball		assistant	Ed Lewis & prisoners	3:25
	Sweet Roseanne		assistant	Bright Light Quartet	4:02
	Testimony		assistant	I.D. Beck	0:47
	The Banks of the Ohio		assistant	Ruby Vass	2:38
	The Burglar Man		assistant	Bob Carpenter	2:13
	The Diver Boy		assistant	Ollie Gilbert	1:58
	The Fox Chase		assistant	Wade Ward & Bob Carpenter	3:09
	The Girl I Left Behind		assistant	Spencer Moore	2:52
	The Gospel Train		assistant	Belleville A Cappella Choir	3:05
	The Irish Soldier and the English Lady		assistant	Neil Morris	4:39
	The Lass of Loch Royale		assistant	Neil Morris	3:15
	The Last Words of Copernicus		assistant	Alabama Sacred Harp Singers	1:56
	The Little Schoolboy (1959 recording)		assistant	Hobart Smith	4:19
	The Scotch Musick		assistant	Absie Morrison	2:08
	The Titanic		assistant	Almeda Riddle	4:39
	Three Little Babes		assistant	Texas Gladden	2:18
	Three Nights Drunk		assistant	J.E. Mainer and Band	2:24
	Tryin' to Make Heaven My Home		assistant	Viola James & congregation	2:19
	Turkey in the Straw		assistant	Charlie Everidge & Neil Morris	2:25
	Turnip Greens		assistant	Neil Morris	2:13
	Uncle Charlie's Breakdown		assistant	Charlie Higgins & Wade Ward	1:49
	Walk in the Parlor		assistant	Sid Hemphill & Lucius Smith	1:35
	Whole Heap a Little Horses		assistant	Texas Gladden	1:27
	Willow Garden		assistant	Charlie Higgins & Wade Ward	1:37
	Willow Green		assistant	Ollie Gilbert	0:54
	Wished I Was in Heaven Sitting Down		assistant	Fred McDowell	2:19
	recording engineer for
1959-08-24	Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Girl		assistant	Hobart Smith	2:39
1959-08-24	Hicks' Farewell		assistant	Texas Gladden	2:11
1959-08-24	Peg an' Awl (1959 recording)		assistant	Hobart Smith	2:18
1959-08-24	Sally Anne		assistant	George Stoneman	1:37
1959-08-24	Three Little Babes		assistant	Texas Gladden	2:18
1959-08-25	Black Annie (1959 recording)		assistant	Hobart Smith	1:52
1959-08-25	Graveyard Blues		assistant	Hobart Smith	3:23
1959-08-25	Parson Burrs		assistant	Hobart Smith	2:22
1959-08-25	Sourwood Mountain (1959 recording)		assistant	Hobart Smith	1:28
1959-08-25	The Little Schoolboy (1959 recording)		assistant	Hobart Smith	4:19
1959-08-26	The Little Dappled Cow		assistant	Texas Gladden	1:43
1959-08-26	Whole Heap a Little Horses		assistant	Texas Gladden	1:27
1959-08-28	Bonaparte's Retreat		assistant	Norman Edmonds	1:16
1959-08-28	Breaking Up Christmas		assistant	Norman Edmonds	2:00
1959-08-28	Interview / Cripple Creek		assistant	Charlie Higgins, Wade Ward & Dale Poe	2:50
1959-08-28	John Henry		assistant	Glen Stoneman	2:49
1959-08-28	Sally Anne		assistant	George Stoneman	1:37
1959-08-28	Single Girl		assistant	Ruby Vass	2:16
1959-08-28	The Banks of the Ohio		assistant	Ruby Vass	2:38
1959-08-28	Uncle Charlie's Breakdown		assistant	Charlie Higgins & Wade Ward	1:49
1959-08-28	Willow Garden		assistant	Charlie Higgins & Wade Ward	1:37
1959-08-31	Cluck Old Hen		assistant	Wade Ward	0:58
1959-08-31	June Apple		assistant	Charlie Higgins & Wade Ward	3:12
1959-08-31	Old Joe Clark		assistant	Wade Ward	1:52
1959-08-31	Piney Woods Gal		assistant	Charlie Higgins & Wade Ward	1:35
1959-08-31	Poor Ellen Smith		assistant	E.C. Ball	1:59
1959-08-31	Pretty Polly		assistant	Estil C. Ball	2:30
1959-08-31	The Burglar Man		assistant	Bob Carpenter	2:13
1959-08-31	The Fox Chase		assistant	Wade Ward & Bob Carpenter	3:09
1959-09-03	Jimmy Sutton		assistant	Spencer Moore & Roy Birns	2:38
1959-09-03	The Girl I Left Behind		assistant	Spencer Moore	2:52
1959-09-06	Guide Me o Thou Great Jehovah		assistant	Ike Caudill & The Thornton Old Regular Baptist Church Congregation	2:21
1959-09-06	Testimony		assistant	I.D. Beck	0:47
1959-09-06	The Last Words of Copernicus		assistant	Alabama Sacred Harp Singers	1:56
1959-09-06	Wished I Was in Heaven Sitting Down		assistant	Fred McDowell	2:19
1959-09-18	Berta, Berta		assistant	Leroy Miller, with hoe group	4:43
1959-09-18	Louisiana		assistant	Henry Ratcliff	1:43
1959-09-18	Mama Lucy		assistant	Leroy Gary	1:36
1959-09-21	Fred McDowell's Blues		assistant	Fred McDowell, Miles Pratcher & Fanny Davis	4:12
1959-09-21	I'm Gonna Live Anyhow 'Till I Die		assistant	Miles Pratcher & Bob Pratcher	2:35
1959-09-21	If It's All Night Long		assistant	Miles Pratcher & Bob Pratcher	3:02
1959-09-21	Jim and John (no vocals, tape T893, track 3)		assistant	Ed Young, Lonnie Young & Lonnie Young, Jr.	2:13
1959-09-21	Little Sally Walker		assistant	Mattie Gardner, Ida Mae Towns & Jesse Lee Pratcher	0:52
1959-09-21	Sittin' On Top of the World		assistant	Lonnie Young, Ed Young & Lonnie Young, Jr.	2:41
1959-09-23	Rolled and Tumbled		assistant	Rosalie Hill	2:54
1959-09-25	61 Highway Blues		assistant	Fred McDowell	3:08
1959-09-25	Germany Blues		assistant	Fred McDowell	3:11
1959-09-25	Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning		assistant	Fred McDowell	2:45
1959-09-25	Lord Have Mercy		assistant	Fred McDowell	1:53
1959-09-25	Soon One Mornin' (Death Come A-Creepin' in My Room)		assistant	Fred McDowell	3:18
1959-09	Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby		assistant	Mrs. Sidney Carter	1:03
1959-09	Dollar Mamie		assistant	Ed Lewis with prisoners	2:47
1959-09	Emmaline, Take Your Time		assistant	Sid Hemphill & Lucius Smith	1:43
1959-09	God's Unchanging Hand		assistant	Anderson Burton & Congregation	1:44
1959-09	Old Devil's Dream		assistant	Sid Hemphill & Lucius Smith	1:49
1959-09	Pharaoh		assistant	Sidney Carter	4:26
1959-09	Stewball		assistant	Ed Lewis & prisoners	3:25
1959-09	Tryin' to Make Heaven My Home		assistant	Viola James & congregation	2:19
1959-09	Walk in the Parlor		assistant	Sid Hemphill & Lucius Smith	1:35
1959-10-01	Joe Lee's Rock		assistant	Boy Blue, Willie Jones & Joe Lee	3:37
1959-10-01	Train Time		assistant	Forrest City Joe	4:35
1959-10-04	I Wonder Will We Meet Again?		assistant	Rev. Crenshaw & congregation	6:14
1959-10-06	Anything, with commentary		assistant	Neil Morris	2:42
1959-10-06	Mama's Gonna Buy		assistant	Vera Ward Hall	1:34
1959-10-06	Music Has No End, With Commentary		assistant	Neil Morris	1:18
1959-10-06	Rock All the Babies to Sleep		assistant	Neil Morris	1:43
1959-10-06	The Irish Soldier and the English Lady		assistant	Neil Morris	4:39
1959-10-06	The Lass of Loch Royale		assistant	Neil Morris	3:15
1959-10-06	Turkey in the Straw		assistant	Charlie Everidge & Neil Morris	2:25
1959-10-06	Turnip Greens		assistant	Neil Morris	2:13
1959-10-12	Go to Sleep Little Baby (tape T922, track 8)		assistant	Bessie Jones	1:17
1959-10	Alan Bain		assistant	Almeda Riddle	5:07
1959-10	Buffalo Gals		assistant	Bookmiller Shannon	0:57
1959-10	Bury Me Beneath the Willow		assistant	Almeda Riddle	3:25
1959-10	Clarksdale Mill Blues		assistant	John Dudley	2:21
1959-10	Cotton-Eyed Joe		assistant	Bookmiller Shannon	0:54
1959-10	Down in Arkansas		assistant	Almeda Riddle	2:28
1959-10	Down in Arkansas Among the Sticks		assistant	Bookmiller Shannon	1:05
1959-10	Eighth of January		assistant	Bookmiller Shannon	0:56
1959-10	I'm Goin' Home		assistant	Ervin Webb & prisoners	3:22
1959-10	Interview		assistant	Ervin Webb	0:53
1959-10	It Rained a Mist		assistant	Ollie Gilbert	2:25
1959-10	Lonesome Dove		assistant	Almeda Riddle	5:36
1959-10	Lord Batesman		assistant	Ollie Gilbert	3:20
1959-10	Merry Golden Tree		assistant	Almeda Riddle	5:17
1959-10	My Prettiest Girl Is Gone		assistant	Absie Morrison	1:50
1959-10	Nancy's Got a Pretty Dress On		assistant	Absie Morrison	1:24
1959-10	Once I Courted a Lady Beauty Bright		assistant	Ollie Gilbert	1:40
1959-10	Po' Boy Blues		assistant	John Dudley	3:19
1959-10	Poor Wayfaring Stranger		assistant	Almeda Riddle	3:02
1959-10	Pretty Polly Oliver		assistant	Ollie Gilbert	2:30
1959-10	Rainbow 'Mid Life's Willows		assistant	Almeda Riddle	2:52
1959-10	Sally Goodin		assistant	Charlie Everidge	1:55
1959-10	The Diver Boy		assistant	Ollie Gilbert	1:58
1959-10	The Scotch Musick		assistant	Absie Morrison	2:08
1959-10	The Titanic		assistant	Almeda Riddle	4:39
1959-10	Three Nights Drunk		assistant	J.E. Mainer and Band	2:24
1959-10	Willow Green		assistant	Ollie Gilbert	0:54
1960-04-06	Po' Lazarus		assistant	Bright Light Quartet	2:05
1960-04-06	Sweet Roseanne		assistant	Bright Light Quartet	4:02
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	vocals
2015	Awake Awake / The Split Ash Tree / May Carol / Southover			Shirley Collins	11:10
2015	Cruel Lincoln			Shirley Collins	3:30
2015	Death and the Lady (Lodestar version)			Shirley Collins	4:46
2015	Old Johnny Buckle			Shirley Collins	1:43
2015	Pretty Polly			Shirley Collins	4:17
2015	Sur le Borde de l’Eau			Shirley Collins	3:54
2015	The Banks of Green Willow			Shirley Collins	3:19
2015	The Rich Irish Lady / Jeff Sturgeon			Shirley Collins	5:59
2015	The Silver Swan			Shirley Collins	1:26
2015	Washed Ashore			Shirley Collins	2:57
	A Caroling in the Dark / Good King Wenceslas / Good King Wenceslas / This Is the Truth Sent From Above / The Holly and the Ivy / The Holly and the Ivy		lead vocals	Alan Lomax / Children's Choir / Bryan Newey Skiffle Group / Shirley Collins / The Haddo House Choir / The Skinner's Bottom Glee Singers	4:58
	A Soft Voice Whispers Nothing			Current 93 with Thomas Ligotti	11:25
	All the Pretty Little Horsies (Shirley Collins vocals)			Current 93	2:43
	Hark, What News the Angels Bring / I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In / Wassail, Wassail, All Over This Town / Here We Come a-Wassailing			Carolers at the Cheshire Cheese Public House / Charlie Bate, Peter Kennedy & Others / Shirley Collins / Birmingham Studio Group	3:07
	His Shadow Shall Rise to a Higher Place			Current 93 with Thomas Ligotti	17:52
	Horn Fair		lead vocals	Etchingham Steam Band	3:33
	Idumæa (vocals Shirley Collins)			Current 93	2:42
	Idumæa (vocals Shirley Collins)		guest and lead vocals	Current 93	2:42
	Murder of Maria Marten			Shirley Collins & The Albion Country Band	7:26
	Old Sir Simon The King			The Albion Dance Band	2:36
	Staines Morris			Ashley Hutchings, Richard Thompson, Dave Mattacks, John Kirkpatrick, Barry Dransfield	3:15
	The Bells Shall Sound Forever			Current 93 with Thomas Ligotti	14:26
	The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home		additional	Current 93	22:17
	When You Hear the Singing, You Will Know It Is Time			Current 93 with Thomas Ligotti	15:13
	Willow Tree / Bean Setting / Shooting			Ashley Hutchings, Richard Thompson, Dave Mattacks, John Kirkpatrick, Barry Dransfield	3:52
	recording engineer for
	The First Recordings	with the assistance of Shirley Collins		Mississippi Fred McDowell
	tribute albums
	Shirley Inspired...			Various Artists
	arranged
	False True Love (Shirley Collins arrangement)
	Salisbury Plain

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