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A SIDEWAYS LOOK AT THE WORLD OF MUSIC
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SHIRLEY
She celebrates her 80th birthday this year, so what better time to reappraise the impact and influence of Shirley Collins (above), the British singer who kicked off the whole "folk revival" thing in the 1960s and spent much of the 1950s collecting the "Sounds of the South" field recordings with Alan Lomax (as featured in O Brother, Where Art Thou). To celebrate, there is a tribute album, Shirley Inspired,...