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The Mariner’s Farewell / Black Birds of Brittany

Shirley Collins: The Mariner’s Farewell (Streetsongs No 1)

The Mariner’s Farewell / Black Birds of Brittany
Shirley Collins with the Bert Jansch Conundrum

Streetsong No 1 (single, UK, 1979)

 Bert Jansch: Black Birds of Brittany (Streetsongs No 1)

The single’s cover is a folded poster of 62*44 cm. Folded together you can see the two pictures shown above.

Produced by Austin John Marshall

Musicians

Shirley Collins: vocals [1];
Anne Power, Gillian Elkins: backing vocals [1];
Bert Jansch: vocals [2], guitar;
Martin Jenkins: backing vocals [2], fiddle;
Nigel Portman-Smith: bass;
Brian Gulland: keyboards, recorder;
Richard Harvey: recorder

Tracks

Bright Side

  1. The Mariner’s Farewell [words Samuel Taylor Coleridge; music Jeremiah Clarke]

Dark Side

  1. Black Birds of Brittany [words Austin John Marshall, Bert Jansch; music Bert Jansch]