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Late Junction: Shirley Collins's mixtape

Shirley Collins's mixtape

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Jennifer Lucy Allan invites folk legend Shirley Collins to compile a 30-minute mixtape.

Jennifer Lucy Allan invites legendary folk singer Shirley Collins to put together a 30-minute mixtape. Also a deep dive into the world of fog horns.

The living legend of English folk, Shirley Collins returns to the Late Junction airwaves with a 30-minute mixtape of music with no limits. Following the release of her latest record she selects pieces from her music collection which she still enjoys to this day. 

Shirley Collins, MBE, was part of the English folk revival in the 1960s. She left Hastings for London to be a folk singer at 17 before travelling by boat to America to record traditional ballads with the folklorist Alan Lomax. After releasing her album For As Many Will in 1978 she suffered a form of dysphonia, which resulted in the loss of her singing voice. She was never expected to sing again but against the odds she returned to the spotlight in 2016, taught herself to sing once again and released a new album after more than 30 years in obscurity. 
 
Elsewhere Jennifer Lucy Allan takes a deep dive into the sound of fog horns. Expect a piece by composer and sound ecologist Hildegarde Westerkamp, Wadada Leo Smith improvising with Alvin Curran’s foghorn recordings and Sufi Flamenco by Pakistani-born musician Aziz Balouch. 

Produced by Alannah Chance.
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