In the latest Folk Show, you can hear two tracks from The Lost Tapes, the 7” release accompanying the new Anne Briggs Record Store Day release from Topic Records. In their own words:
We’ve gone back to the original tapes of Anne Briggs’ eponymous debut album, commissioned one of the UK’s top mastering engineers to remaster it, and in doing so, have unearthed four previously unreleased tracks from the album sessions! Incredible as it may sound, these four songs, which we’re calling ‘The Lost Tape,’ were filed away back in 1971 but remarkably, until now, have gathered dust.
This Topic Treasures release, remastered by Calum Malcom from the original quarter-inch tapes, expands on the 2019 vinyl re-issue, which includes original album artwork by Humphrey Weightman plus notes by A.L. Lloyd, music journalist Ken Hunt and Anne Briggs herself. The album includes ‘The Lost Tape’ in the form of a bonus 7” single, again, designed by Weightman, based on a never-before-seen 1967 illustration by Eamonn O’Doherty.
There are also several new releases (including a track from Martin Simpson‘s latest album Skydancers – be sure to check our recent interview with Martin as well as an Off the Shelf feature here) and a couple of older tracks, including one from the late 1960s by Gordon Lowe and Laurel Ward (Prisms) that has been described as a downer folk variant on the Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra records.
There is also a track from a new experimental work for Galician bagpipe by Carme López, a performer, teacher and researcher of traditional oral music from Galicia. We’ll be featuring more on this release soon on KLOF mag.
For those that subscribe and support us through our Premium Newsletter, you can hear two more tracks from that Anne Briggs 7″ release here:
Playlist
00:00 Anne Briggs – Sovay (The Lost Tapes) (A vinyl Record Store Day release)
02:49 Arianne Chuchman & Benedict Drew – The Green Bushes (May – Bandcamp)
09:52 Stick in the Wheel – Ruins VIP (Ruins VIP – Video – Bandcamp)
12:31 Craven – Crow on the Cradle (Baby vs Crow – Bandcamp)
15:42 Luce Mawdsley – Latex Feather (Northwest & Nebulous – Review – Bandcamp)
20:39 Buck Curran with Dave Barbarossa, Jodi Pedrali, Adele H, Roberto Frassini Moneta – Black is the Colour (One Evening and Other Folk Songs – Article – Bandcamp)
26:26 Niamh Bury – Bite The Bridle (Yellow Roses – Review – Order)
30:40 Gordon Lowe and Laurel Ward – Jenny’s Gone (Prisms)
34:19 Martin Simpson – Fragile Water (Skydancers – Review/Interview – Order)
38:05 Lemoncello – Harsh Truths (Lemoncello – Order)
43:07 Six Organs of Admittance – My Familiar (Time is Glass – Review – Bandcamp)
46:31 Weyes Blood – God Turn Me Into a Flower (And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow – Bandcamp)
52:43 Carme López – IV: CACHELOS. A César de Farbán (Quintela – Bandcamp)
59:35 Goblin Band – The Brisk Lad (Come Slack Your Horse! – Bandcamp)
01:03:56 Anne Briggs – Three Maidens a Milking Did Go (The Lost Tape)
01:06:46 Lunatraktors – Maggie May (This is Broken Folk – Bandcamp)
01:09:55 Nick Granata – My Chainmaker Lad (Betwixt & Between 10 – Bandcamp)