Shirley Collins - Hearts Ease - ONLY 1,000 MADE - Deluxe Colour LP + Etched 7”.

	£		70
	$		93

You are bidding on a fantastic ALMOST COMPLETELY SOLD OUT Collectors Deluxe Edition of the new Shirley Collins Album ‘Hearts Ease’ which comes pressed on glorious 3 Colour Vinyl (Limited to 1,000 Numbered Copies Only) and comes in a special Numbered Gold Foil Embossed sleeve.
The photographs are of the actual item for sale. I only have one of these for sale.
This is Number 253 of 1,000 examples issued.
Included with this album is a beautiful 7” Vinyl Single in it’s own unique sleeve featuring a recording of ‘Sweet Greens & Blues’ from 1964 with Davy Graham and an etched Corn Dolly design by Cathy Ward on the B-side, plus a 4 page Colour Booklet and an MP3 and WAV download card of the full album too. These are all included within the package of the album itself which is brand new and sealed. 
Images of the bonus 7” single and it’s sleeve are shown in image number 5 for illustration purposes only. As it is enclosed within the sealed package I cannot show actual photographs.
Track-listing of the main album is as follows:

1. The Merry Golden Tree

2. Rolling In The Dew

3. The Christmas Song

4. Locked In Ice

5. Wondrous Love

6. Barbara Allen

7. Canadee-i-o

8. Sweet Greens And Blues

9. Tell Me True

10. Whitsun Dance

11. Orange In Bloom

12. Crowlink

But in 2016, she returned with the miraculous Lodestar, her first new album in 38 years. Now, the reinvigorated octogenarian has delivered again. It’s a scholarly album — many of the tracks are interpretations of songs passed down through the generations, some dating back hundreds of years — but there’s no sterile academia here. Heart’s Ease is disarming in its warmth, with an emanating sense that this music really is Collins’ lifeblood.

Her aged voice, which carries a gentle Sussex accent, has previously been called “plain”, but that simplicity is deceptive. On Barbara Allen, amid a droning hurdy-gurdy, she is wistful and woeful, romantic and remorseful as she tells the story of doomed lovers. Her tracklist has hidden layers, too — one song was written by an ex-husband, another by her late nephew, both reminders of how her life and music became interwoven.

With Heart's Ease, Shirley delivers a record even stronger than Lodestar, having completely regained her confidence, and singing so well that you can't believe she was away for so long. As Shirley put it, “ Lodestar wasn't too bad, was it? But when I listen to it, it does sometimes sound rather attempt. I had to record it at home because I was just too nervous to sing in front of somebody I didn't know. This time I was far more relaxed - even though I went into a studio.”

Recorded at Metway in Brighton, Heart's Ease is as compelling and original as Shirley's great albums from the '60s and' 70s. There are traditional songs, of course, from England and the US, but there are also more new songs than in the past (four non-traditional tracks). There's even a burst of experimentation that hints at possible new directions to come.

In her second comeback album, Heart's Ease, Collins' intriguing choice of songs includes two with lyrics by her first husband Austin John Marshall, a graphic artist and poet who produced several of her albums; he also had the inspired idea of getting Shirley to work with blues / jazz / world music guitarist Davy Graham on the extraordinary album Folk Roots, New Routes in 1964. There are more family memories with “Locked In Ice”, written by Dolly's son, the late Buz Collins . The most startling new piece is the finale, “Crowlink”, named after a pathway on the South Downs overlooking the English Channel “where I love to be,” in which Shirley sings against a moody, atmospheric fusion of Ossian Brown’s hurdy-gurdy, with electronica and field recordings of waves and sea birds from Matthew Shaw .

Heart's Ease is a glorious reminder that Shirley Collins is still in a class of her own, both as a folk singer with a distinctive no-nonsense style that is all her own, and as an innovator. And she certainly doesn't intend this album to be her last. “I have such a huge memory of songs, so many of which I still want to sing. And I wasted all those years.....”