Shirley CollinsBest Shirley Collins Albums Ranked
8.1
Avg Score
7
Opinions
5
Albums
6
Reviewers
Summary from 7 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Shirley Collins’s catalog across 5 albums from 7 opinions, with an overall average of 8.1/10. The top-rated Shirley Collins album is Heart's Ease (2020) with a 9.2/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by Lodestar and Folk Roots, New Routes. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1958 to 2020.
Heart's Ease
“Eighty one was quite an age for a comeback, but with 2016’s Lodestar – tentatively voiced but with dazzling accompaniment – Shirley Collins reclaimed her place as a doyenne of English folk after an absence of 30-odd years. Heart’s Ease proves a more confident follow-up, with guitarist Ian Kearey again overseeing settings for songs such as Rolling in the Dew and Barbara Allen that Collins first rec”
Heart's Ease
“There’s a song on Heart’s Ease, the ninth Shirley Collins album in six decades, written by Buz Collins – the late son of the late Dolly Collins, Shirley’s sister and collaborator. One of the very few non-traditional songs in the record (or indeed, in the Shirley Collins recorded canon), ‘Locked in Ice’ concerns the story of the SS Baychimo. As the First World War began, the steel cargo ship was la”
Lodestar
“For her first record in 38 years, the wonderful British folk singer Shirley Collins dazzles with a collection of macabre and mischievous songs from centuries past.”