''Anne Briggs'' is a folk album released in 1971 by
Anne Briggs
Anne Patricia Briggs (born 29 September 1944) is an English folk singer. Although she travelled widely in the 1960s and early 1970s, appearing at folk clubs and venues in England and Ireland, she never aspired to commercial success or to achiev ...
. The songs are Traditional apart from two Briggs originals, "Go Your Way" and "Living By The Water". The front cover photograph was taken by Pat Delap on
Little Bealings Heath, Suffolk either in 1969 or 1970.
Release history
In 2009, "
Blackwater Side" was included in
Topic Records
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70 year anniversary boxed set ''
Three Score and Ten
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The album consists of a hardback book containing the seven CDs and a paper ...
'' as track four of the second CD in the set.
On
Record Store Day
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2015 Topic records re-released the album on 180g vinyl.
Track listing
All tracks are traditional; arranged by Anne Briggs; except where noted.
#"
Blackwater Side" - 3:53
#"
The Snow It Melts The Soonest" - 2:23
#"
Willie O'Winsbury" - 5:31
#"Go Your Way" (Anne Briggs,
Bert Jansch
Herbert Jansch (3 November 1943 – 5 October 2011) was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s as an acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter ...
) - 4:14
#"Thorneymoor Woods" - 3:36
#"
The Cuckoo" - 3:11
#"
Reynardine
Reynardine is a traditional English ballad (Roud 397). In the versions most commonly sung and recorded today, Reynardine is a werefox who attracts beautiful women so that he can take them away to his castle. What fate meets them there is usually l ...
" - 3:01
#"
Young Tambling" - 10:44
#"Living By The Water" (Anne Briggs) - 3:55
#"Ma Bonny Lad" - 1:17
Personnel
*Anne Briggs - vocals, guitar, bouzouki
*Johnny Moynihan - bouzouki on "Willie O'Winsbury"
;Technical
*Sean Davies - recording
*Humphrey Weightman - sleeve design
*Patrick Delap - photography
References
1971 albums
Anne Briggs albums
Topic Records albums
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