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Shirley Collins: Heart’s Ease

	Heart’s Ease Shirley Collins Domino Recording WIGLP454/WIGCD454 (LP/CD, UK, 24 July 2020) The LP contains a bonus single Sweet Greens & Blues Shirley Collins & Davy Graham Domino Recording WIGLP454XM-7 (one-sided 7" single, UK, 24 July 2020)
	The Christmas Song Shirley Collins Domino Recording RUG 1189 (flexi-disc Christmas card, UK, 13 November 2020)

Produced by Ian Kearey;
Recorded at Metway Studios, Brighton;
Mixed by Al Scott;
Mastered by Kevin Metcalfe at Soundmasters;
Bonus single: home recording by Austin John Marshall at The Keep, Blackheath, London, 1964;
Paintings by Alex Merry;
Photo of The Lodestar Band by Tobay Amies;
Design by Matthew Cooper

Folk Radio UK review by Thomas Blake

Musicians

Shirley Collins: vocals
Davy Graham: guitar [bonus single]

The Lodestar Band:
Ian Kearey: The Instrument [2, 4, 6], 12-string guitar [1, 3, 8], angel guitars [1, 7], electric guitar [4], bottleneck guitar [5], 12-string dobro [6], lap slide guitar [8, 11], guitar [9], low guitar [10], soprano ukulele [1], mandolin [4-5, 9], bass [4, 6, 10], percussion [4];
Pete Cooper: fiddle [2, 8, 10-11];
Dave Arthur: banjo [2], harmonica [10], melodeon [11], spoons [2];
Ossian Brown: hurdy-gurdy [6, 12];
Pip Barnes: guitar [7, 10-11];
John Watcham: concertina [11];
Glen Redman: dance [11]

with special guests
Nathan Salsburg: guitar [8];
Matthew Shaw: harmonium, electric piano, Mood Prodigy, and field recordings of waves and sea birds [12]

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Merry Golden Tree (Roud 122; Child 286; G/D 1:37) (4.09)
2. Rolling in the Dew (Roud 298; G/D 4:812) (3.53)
3. Christmas Song (Roud 1170) (2.00)
4. Locked in Ice (4.48)
5. Wondrous Love (Roud 5089) (2.21)
6. Barbara Allen (Roud 54; Child 84; G/D 6:1193; Henry H236) (4.14)

Side 2

7. Canadee-I-O (Roud 309; Henry H162) (4.13)
8. Sweet Greens and Blues (5.28)
9. Tell Me True (Roud 273; Laws K12; G/D 6:1245) (2.57)
10. Whitsun Dance (3.08)
11. Orange in Bloom (1.37)
12. Crowlink (4.30)

Tracks 1-2, 5-6, 9 trad. arr. Shirley Collins, Ian Kearey;
Track 3 trad. arr. Bob Copper;
Track 4 Buz Collins;
Track 7 trad. arr. Shirley Collins, Pip Barnes;
Track 8 words Austin John Marshall, tune trad. arr. Shirley Collins, Ian Kearey;
Track 10 words Austin John Marshall, tune A Week Before Easter, trad. arr. Bob Copper;
Track 11 trad. arr. Ian Kearey;
Track 12 Ossian Brown, Matthew Shaw

Bonus single: words Austin John Marshall, tune trad. arr. Shirley Collins

Video

Shirley Collins sings Wondrous Love: