All in the Downs: Reflections on Life, Landscape, and Song

ISBN-13: 9781907222412 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str.

Shirley Collins

Opis

Forthcoming from the MIT Press.

Recenzje

In these pages Shirley Collins completes her comeback, reclaiming her rightful place in the English folk revival from those who placed obstacles in her way. New Statesman

There is music in Collins's writing too. When Jimi Hendrix visits her and her first husband in London ('I can see why John married you'), it sings lustily. She also writes tenderly of tragedy; the section about her sister and musical collaborator Dolly's death is particularly moving. Another strong female voice to add to the chorus of music history, then, going against the grain, so tunefully.

Mail on Sunday

O autorze

Shirley Collins is a renowned folk singer. She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album Lodestar, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after a thirty-year absence. She is the author of All in the Downs: Reflections on Reflections on Life, Landscape, and Song (Strange Attractor).

Stewart Graham Lee is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director.