According to the Internet source given below, Shirley Elizabeth Collins MBE is an English folk singer and a significant contributor to the English Folk Revival of the 1960s and 1970s.
Involving herself in the early folk revival she recorded her first album
Folk Song Today in 1955. In a wide ranging career she and Allan Lomax, an American folk collector, made a folk song collecting trip in the Southern U.S. states in 1959. Collins recorded more than 20 albums with groups such as
The Albion Country Band, the
Young Tradition amongst others,
A film about her life,
The Ballad of Shirley Collins, was released in October 2017.
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