Infact it's a dead certainty you won't, so we decided to do it.

Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band performing their record, No Roses, courtesy of a You Tube subscriber going by the name of jwbos1388. This person has a fair number different genres of music on their You Tube account, but it's The Albion Country Band that has, in our opinion, gotten everything else beaten by a country mile (pun intended!)

It is very unusual to have 27 musicians and singers on an album of traditional folk songs. It happened because people simply dropped in during recording sessions and were asked to join in. At the time, the most unusual sound was the hurdy-gurdy, now heard much more frequently. "The Murder of Maria Marten" is broken into segments, with a heavy-rock alternating with Shirley's voice accompanied by a simple drone. Shirley had used a similar technique on "One Night As I Lay on My Bed" on "Adieu To Old England".

 

We're going to leave you to listen to No Roses, and hopefully this will encourage you to seek out the record and purchase it.

 

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