- Nov 29, 2016
- 6 min
Lodestar: The Unlikely Triumph of Shirley Collins
In the beginning of this year I jotted down some admiring notes on Shirley Collins, who at the time was still more or less thought of as a disappeared person in the decentralized cannon of English folk music. A few months ago I discovered with great surprise and joy that she had put together a new record – the first in some thirty-eight years of silence – and that it was to be released at the beginning of November, this year. Now I'm sitting in my library with the elements of
