★ Anne Briggs - Hazards of Love (1963) EP
4 videos • 6,704 views • by ThePsychedelicGarden Anne Briggs - Hazards of Love (1963) EP Topic Records TOP94 EP Side A 1. Lowlands (Roud 681) 2. My Bonny Boy (Roud 293) Side B 3. Polly Vaughan (Roud 166 / Laws O36) 4. Rosemary Lane (Roud 269 / Laws K43) All tracks traditional Produced by A.L. Lloyd Notes by A.L. Lloyd Anne Briggs - vocals (Recorded in 1963 and Released in August 1964) http://mainlynorfolk.info/anne.briggs... - - - - - "Anne Patricia Briggs is an English folk singer. Although she travelled widely in the 1960s and early 1970s, appearing at folk clubs and venues in England and Ireland, she never aspired to commercial success or to achieve widespread public acknowledgment of her music. However, she was a highly influential figure in the English folk music revival, being a source of songs and musical inspiration for others such as A.L. Lloyd, Bert Jansch, Jimmy Page, The Watersons, June Tabor, Sandy Denny, Richard Thompson and Maddy Prior. "Briggs was born in Toton, Beeston, Nottinghamshire on 29 September 1944. Her mother died of tuberculosis when she was young. Her father, Albert, was severely injured in World War II and she was raised by her Aunt Hilda and Uncle Bill in Toton, who also brought up Hilda's youngest sister, Beryl, and their own daughter Betty. In 1959 she cycled with a friend to Edinburgh. They stayed overnight with Archie Fisher, who was at that time prominent in the revival of folk music in Scotland, and through him she met Bert Jansch, who had just begun to compose his own songs. Jansch and Briggs had an instant rapport and were to remain influential on one another for several years. "In 1962, the Trades Union Congress passed Resolution 42, a resolution to develop cultural activities outside of London. To implement this resolution, playwright Arnold Wesker was appointed as the leader, with Ewan MacColl and A.L. 'Bert' Lloyd heavily involved, and Charles Parker on production. Calling themselves Centre 42, they organised a tour around the Britain, hoping to involve local talent at each stop. "At Nottingham, MacColl heard Briggs singing 'Let No Man Steal Your Thyme' and 'She Moves Through the Fair' and promptly invited her to perform on stage that night. She became a full member of the tour and recorded the same two songs on an album recorded live in Edinburgh later that year. Briggs decided to leave home, just four weeks short of her eighteenth birthday. Centre 42 gave her an administrative job in their offices, liaising with theatres and galleries. She soon acquired the contacts she needed to pursue her own musical career. "Beginnings of folk music career Briggs visited the main British folk clubs which were then becoming well known: The Troubadour (London), The Scots Hoose and various Irish music venues. At his time, the emphasis at such venues was on instrumental folk music, and singing was regarded as merely a pause between tunes. A young Christy Moore heard her and was inspired to give more emphasis, in his own music, to singing rather than playing jigs. "Briggs and Jansch lived together in a squat in Earl's Court before moving together to a house in Somali Road, London, where John Renbourn lived, and The Young Tradition also lived for a time. Jansch and Briggs had some resemblance to each other and were often mistaken for brother and sister. It was Briggs who taught Jansch the traditional song 'Blackwaterside' which he recorded on his Jack Orion album in 1966..." ~ via Wiki ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Briggs - - - - -