L.A. turnaround
Bert Jansch
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Reviews (5)
Uncut
2007
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Neil Spencer
2007
"By the time Anne Briggs came to record this, her second album proper, she was already on her way out of a folk scene she had helped transform during the 1960s, when she had flitted through Albion’s folk clubs and pubs like an untamed nature spirit ... The urge for freedom that would lead her to vanish (...) was there in her singing. Blessed with a skylark of a voice (...), Briggs would inhabit a song rather than deliver it note perfect".
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Chris Nichson
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"Very much influenced by the folk revival which brought her into the public eye, her voice is untutored and unself-conscious, appealing in an offhand way. But it definitely quavers a little, even on her own work, and she seems most comfortable with the record's only traditional piece, "Standing on the Shore." To give credit, Briggs throws in a couple of bouzouki instrumentals, "Highlodge Hare" and "Clea Caught a Rabbit," that show some command of the instrument. The whole here might be less than the sum of its parts - but the parts, in some intangible way, remain very appealing".
The unbroken circle
2007
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2007
"In English folk music Anne Briggs is a defining and slightly mysterious figure. Coming to prominence in the mid 60s as a traditional unaccompanied singer she started recording her own songs but then gave up music in 1973, had a child, moved to Scotland and hasn't recorded since ... This sole album stands as the only way of listening to Anne's own songs as she intended ... When many folk musicians were being inspired by Fairport Convention and including rock structures or such elements as psychedelia or jazz, Anne here kept to the original template but produced the definitive album within the style. It is a cornerstone and treasure of any building folk collection".
Q
2007 September
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Victoria Segal
2007 September
"The Time Has Come shows why her name is still a folk totem".
fRoots
2017 Aug/Sept
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Colin Irwin
2017 Aug/Sept
"One of the British folk revival's greatest singers - as ell as one of its most enigmatic characters - Anne Briggs' legend has grown in every year of silence since she walked away from her career ... This second LP (...) is Briggs in essence following the considered wisdom of the day into songwriting ... This will doubtless be hailed in some quarters as a lost masterpiece of psych-folk or some such nonsense - and there is indeed still much to be gleaned from the vulnerable purity of her voice - but the truth of the matter is that, with a couple of exceptions ("Tidewave" and her Bert Jansch collaboration "Wishing Well" are well constructed) her original songs aren't up to much ... That all said, there are some fine accompaniments on guitar and bouzouki, and anything that might re-direct people to her previous EPs and LP on Topic - or even last year's "Four Songs" on Fledg'ling - has to be positive".