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Anne Briggs ‎– Four Songs. Label: Fledg'ling Records ‎– WING 1006.

Briggs began her recording career by contributing two songs to a thematic album, The Iron Muse, released by Topic Records in 1963. MacColl and Bert Lloyd sang on the tracks, and Ray Fisher made a brief appearance singing along with Briggs. An EP The Hazards of Love was recorded in 1963. He recorded Briggs' songs (including "Go Your Way, My Love" and "Wishing Well") on four of his albums. She was also his source for several of the traditional songs which he recorded, including "Blackwaterside.

Few legends loom larger than Anne Briggs in the history of British folk; she was a dazzlingly gifted young prodigy who was discovered by Ewan MacColl in 1962 and sporadically performed and recorded until 1973, when she decided she didn't care for the sound of her voice on record and walked away from her career, presumably for good.

Fledg'ling Uk Item No: 487457. Label: Fledg'ling Uk.

Anne Briggs - Living by the Water.

Is Anne Briggs the best album by Anne Briggs? BestEverAlbums. com brings together thousands of 'greatest ever album' charts and calculates an overall ranking. This album At A Glance. Anne Briggs by Anne Briggs (1971) Overall rank: 22,646th.

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The BBC artist page for Anne Briggs. Find the best clips, watch programmes, catch up on the news, and read the latest Anne Briggs interviews. Anne Patricia Briggs (born 29 September 1944) is an English folk singer. Although she travelled widely in the 1960s and early 1970s, appearing at folk clubs and venues in England and Ireland, she never aspired to commercial success or to achieve widespread public acknowledgment of her music. However, she was an influential figure in the English folk music revival, being a source of songs and musical inspiration for others such as A. L. Lloyd, Bert Jansch, Jimmy Page, The Watersons, June Tabor, Sandy Denny, Richard Thompson and Maddy Prior.