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Anne Patricia Briggs (born 1944), known as Anne Briggs, 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 acknowledgement of her music. However, she was a highly 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, The Watersons, June Tabor, Sandy Denny and Maddy Prior.

[Comment: Jansch was her contemporary. Lloyd, a pioneer of modern folk music and a patron of hers, was a source for many of Anne’s songs. It’s not quite right to call her an English folksinger. She grow up in Nottingham, it’s true, but she was an orphan and reckoned at least part of her stock was Irish. She was on her own well before she was 20, and later on travelled with a tinker band in Ireland for several years in the 70’s. Her voice was pure and true and remarkably supple. Perhaps her greatest contribution was to sing the songs of womens’ experience, and this became a a great inspiration for the next generations. She sang from the heart of the tradition, she loved dogs and hunting and their songs, and she had a knack for setting the original heart of each song free.]

Early in 1973 she recorded a third solo album “Sing a Song For You” with instrumental support from “Ragged Robin”, who were a folk-rock band assembled around Steve Ashley.
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  • RaulLipschitz

    "Beeswing" by Richard Thompson is about her.....and "the Pond & the Stream" by Fotheringay.

    24 days ago

  • RaulLipschitz

    you can't really compare any of those other "folk chanteuses" to Annie, because.....they pretty much all wanted to BE like her -or greatly admired her, at least- as she was this untamable free spirit who lived like the songs she sang about..

    24 days ago

  • PerraSuicida

    Her voice is soft, weird and beautiful. I feel like she was beside me, singing just for me.

    last month

  • HerrTillman

    and thought the pentangle version of willie o' winsbury was incredibly expressive, the anne briggs one is out of this world.

    last month

  • ijkidd

    At last delving into her work, my wife and I shared an earpiece each listening to "The Time Has Come" album for the first time last night, what a voice!

    March 2012

  • stupidstuff

    I've just heard one half of one album, so maybe my view will change with time, but this is some seriously beautiful music.

    November 2011

  • quintone5

    A voice that matches Sandy Denny's in my humble opinion

    October 2011

  • mozzmozz

    sadly there was so much folk creativity in the late 60s that her pure voice did not get heard enough, and her quiet retiring nature - like Nick Drake's - prevented her from becoming more widely known at the time.

    August 2011
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