Folk Roots, New Routes
Studio album by
Shirley Collins and Davy Graham
Released1964
RecordedCamden, London, 1964
Genre
Length49:22
LanguageEnglish
LabelDecca
ProducerRay Horricks

Folk Roots, New Routes is a collaborative folk album by Shirley Collins and Davy Graham, released by Decca in 1964.[2][3]

The album was produced by Ray Horricks and recorded by Gus Dudgeon; the sleeve featured a photograph by Crispian Woodgate and sleeve notes by Austin John Marshall.[4]

According to Bob Stanley, the album took inspiration from the North African scale, modal music and Miles Davis; it was the first time many of these English folk songs had been recorded with guitar backing.[1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Trad. arr. Collins, Graham, except where noted

Side 1
No.TitleLength
1."Nottamun Town" (Trad. arr. Sharp)3:38
2."Proud Maisrie" (Trad. arr. MacColl)3:58
3."The Cherry Tree Carol" (trad. arr. Collins)3:13
4."Blue Monk" (Thelonious Monk)2:59
5."Hares on the Mountain"2:52
6."Reynardine" (Trad. arr. Hughes)2:24
7."Pretty Saro"4:11
8."Rif Mountain" (Graham)2:19
Total length:25:34
Side 2
No.TitleLength
1."Jane, Jane" (Trad. arr Seeger)2:35
2."Love Is Pleasin'"2:27
3."Boll Weevil, Holler" (arr. Lomax)2:53
4."Hori Horo" (Trad. arr Kennedy-Fraser)2:07
5."Bad Girl"2:36
6."Lord Gregory"3:30
7."Grooveyard" (Timmons)2:56
8."Dearest Dear" (Trad. arr. Sharp)2:59
Total length:23:48

Personnel

Reception

Folk Roots, New Routes is regarded as a landmark album of the folk revival;[5][6][7] Jude Rogers writing for NPR called it "an uncompromising work that spearheaded innovation in the middle of the folk music revival. It set a template for the folk-rock that followed it, and inspired 21st century psych-folk decades later."[8] It is described as a template for Fairport Convention's Liege & Lief (1969).[9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Stanley, Bob (13 September 2013). "An English Pastoral: Folk Rock". Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop. Faber & Faber. p. 297. ISBN 978-0-571-28198-5.
  2. ↑ "Shirley Collins, Davy Graham: Folk Roots, New Routes". mainlynorfolk.info.
  3. ↑ Young, Rob (August 19, 2010). Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music. Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571258420 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ "Shirley Collins, Davy Graham – Folk Roots, New Routes" – via www.discogs.com.
  5. ↑ Larkin, Colin (May 27, 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958 – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ Revival, Folk Horror (September 22, 2018). Folk Horror Revival: Harvest Hymns. Volume I- Twisted Roots. Lulu.com. ISBN 9780244074814 – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ Sweers, Britta (January 13, 2005). Electric Folk: The Changing Face of English Traditional Music. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-803898-6 – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ Rogers, Jude (October 11, 2017). "The Innovative Folk Revival Sound Of Shirley Collins' 'Folk Roots, New Routes'" – via NPR.
  9. ↑ "Shirley Collins and Davy Graham – Folk Roots – New Roots – CD". Rough Trade.
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