Like Shirley Collins, Briggs straddles two eras of folk music, bridging the period from the late 1950s industrial repertoire to the star-kissed folk-pastoralia of the late 1960s. Yet she remained focused on the purity of the songs themselves and, again like Collins, made her voice into a passive aeolian resonator to let the old songs emerge relatively unadorned. (Rob Young, Electric Eden: Discovering Britain's Visionary Music p. 171)
Significant, pobbibly even Iconic. File under: Reclusive folk divas
In the music library: A Collection The Time Has Come
Anthems In Eden: The Recruited Collier
Links: AllMusic Anne Briggs at 65 Go Your Way: Anne Briggs
Gone but not forgotten Selected English Folk Singers