Shirley Collins: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

[@laurenbufferd1399]

Shirley, you are the queen. What a pleasure to hear you.

[@petdoe8938]

As beautiful as morning blackbird or thrush our queen of folk ❤ thank you Shirley blessed be

[@wingerton]

Shirley Collins, you are one of my favorite people that ever lived, hard to argue that you are the very voice of english folk music, and I'm honored that my time here overlapped with yours. Thank you!

[@christianaberle1602]

This is a wonderful thing to write. I feel the same and love how you put it into words, and also how beautiful your moustache is.

[@clairewink7058]

This is simple but powerful. These two will open a portal to another time. Fascinating and comforting. Thank you.

[@kse6909]

Couldn't agree more☺️💗🙏🏾 So charmingly simple & feels like home

[@irisjudea4971]

I can't find a way to comment but ask that I'm reading touches it so. Feel blessed after watching. Thankyou Shirley & Co. 🙏🏾❤️

[@tabes1268]

That Shirley got her voice back after all these years makes me so happy. She has always had a distinctive, unadorned voice, and age has not diminished its power.

[@goliard]

0:00 The Merry Golden Tree 5:17 Sweet Greens and Blues 8:20 Wondrous Love 12:24 Tell me True 15:21 Old Johnny Buckle

[@PentameronSV]

Thanks for this!

[@OceanAdrift]

Thank you so much!

[@charlescharliejpeg]

The Sweet Primroses is my favorite album ever and it is such a treasure to me. Your music changed my life Shirley. Thank you and i’ll always remember you ❤

[@guimanigot2569]

Adorable ! Bless you

[@mayarasantos2834]

This concert should be called "How to touch a wounded soul in 2020"

[@burtbloom4794]

Truly a living treasure. It is a privilege to witness a performance by Shirley and, thus (at the time of the concert), a peerless gem of 65 years of folk music history.

[@redmachine7]

God I love this woman. What an incredible soul.

[@Brokout]

Love you Shirley!

[@gavster_999]

Shirley looks happy and connected to the music again. It's a pure joy. Been listening to all these songs as I drive through the North Yorkshire countryside. I hope she realises how much pleasure she is giving!

[@kevinmonahan6276]

Wonderful!

[@jetpacksfortheneedy]

I’m crying I love them so much

[@julesb4887]

One of our greatest folk singers. Thank you Shirley x.

[@vdsilva6806]

Inspirational for us old folks. Thanks. We can still.....

[@DiandraStarShine]

she should narrate childrens' storybooks and novels for grownups - because I'd listen to that lovely, comforting voice *all day.* chillin' in a reclined Lazy-boy chair, feet up..a good pillow, a warm blanket and my favorite tea and snacks.🤗

[@gusc8892]

Thank you, Shirley, for the decades of music you have given me

[@marshallmccall9]

popped up on my recommended, gems like this tend to stop me in my tracks and just leave me in awe. what a time to be alive when amazing art is created, no matter what genre.

[@jrolibrarian]

Shirley has my heart. I'm so glad she's made this second turn to music. Absolutely my favorite singer...and human being.

[@melodymccullough5262]

🌹Shirley is absolutely beautiful.

[@gabrielanvicosa]

Can you imagine these two having this quality of fun every single day? I feel blessed by them after watching it. Thank you, NPR!

[@tangotanjomusic]

I love Shirley Collins!

[@robertdyson76]

Outstanding

[@patkenlaws]

Beautiful!

[@ma.isabelarias5839]

I didn't know this type of music. I haven't heard it before. It is amazing. It is warm, deep and nostalgic.

[@skywalktriceiam]

well, this certainly kicked the grump outta me! Thank you👏🏼💐😁

[@randygentry6193]

What a sweet soul...this was a treat

[@nickjohnrox]

When you come back after a 40 year retirement to record your best albums ever

[@ElizabethRoseTexas]

What an unexpected and rare gem. Enthralled ears here. Blessings! ❣️❣️❣️

[@flyingcheff]

These two lovely humans are exquisite! Needed this! Thank you Bob!

[@jacobfeneis8515]

I'm surprised that living American Archives still exist. Keep singing please. You are a library.

[@zoiders]

My grandmother passed away some four years ago at the age of 90. We spread her ashes in the fields over looking the River Weaver where she was born and I was born. She would have liked this.

[@rosemary-y4733]

any KZbin video with a sweet old lady in it is a total YASSSSS 💕✨ I feel so warm with her voice

[@tonyalmonte]

The Legendary Shirley Collins!

[@RobertSlover]

beautiful! folk/blues music "three chords and the truth"

[@Librarypencils]

She's a living legend. We are lucky to have her.

[@sedyamullla]

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 this so sweet

[@bigoolss]

진짜 사랑스럽다

[@ifloetic]

@Jason Reyes and dogs

[@sandramorey2529]

Such an interesting version of Merry Golden Tree. Kind of like Peggy Seeger's, but different. I love that the Turkish Rovery & Spanish Enemy turns into the British Robbery. Right on! Your first husband who wrote Sweet Greens and Blues uses the tune I learned for The Waggoner's Lad. What a repository of music Shirley Collins is. Her instrumentalist is pretty wonderful, too. There's a song from the 1849 California Gold Rush that is variant of Tell Me True called My California Boy and is the same story as Tell Me True, but her lad took off to look for gold.Thank you Shirley and Ian for a lovely collection of traditional tunes and stories. From an old ballad singer and song teacher from Oakland CA

[@gratelusjjjj]

Wonderful. Gets right to your heart. Direct, powerful, timeless

[@OceanAdrift]

Beautiful and fun listening for me and my young cousins. I always find myself singing these during mundane, daily tasks

[@jazmanaut]

Wonderfull!

[@Dujfjfo]

Amazing performance! What a wonderful trip to the past. This sort of music reminds me of my grandparents, from another time and what right now feels like another world.

[@aftondavis4133]

Best at home tiny desk concert so far

[@limbiclove9487]

This is just special. To find her is delightful and for her to find her voice again is a gift for all.

[@snapcracklenpop821]

Kind of reminds me of watching Bagpuss as a wee boy. My 13 year old son can't believe that anyone ever watched such things on TV, or would listen to such beautiful and fragile music as this. Wonderful performance.

[@skywalktriceiam]

wonderful comment☺thank you

[@Rai_S82]

Totally!!! Or Portland Bill... what a time ❤

[@mitzivaniatorreshernandez8110]

you are amazing Shirley, thank u for this

[@elizabethfrei9362]

!!!!!! ive loved her for so long and i cant believe it took me 6 days to realize this video !!!!!! thank you npr, and thank you shirley collins for being an absolutely incredible artist and musician. incredible.

[@michaelsalmon3450]

So much love for this woman

[@daznobes6799]

Shirley and Ian, thanks for this wonderful tiny desk concert x Daz

[@joel800]

She's the treasure...

[@starskyhutch988]

This warmed my heart. Much needed. Thank you Shirley and Ian. As always thank you Bob!

[@Brttan]

One of my favorites. ♥️

[@unutilized]

What a lovely show, wow.

[@chudleylecorre]

Tell me true was amazing . Love these guys. X peace x

[@anutterperspective]

What a Gem! Thank ye for sharing of ye shining selves!

[@missybehexed9655]

Thank you. ♥️

[@alexisloudenslager4124]

So sweet, just lovely. Thank you.

[@miltonpound763]

I love the phrase “lovely noise.” It is so perfectly descriptive.

[@PseudoPseudoDionysius]

This is what I needed right now. Thank you, Shirley, and thank you, NPR.

[@BNoble86]

The greatest ever! What a treat! Thanks so much Shirley and Ian!

[@beomille509]

Marvellous - thank you Shirley.

[@katherine8900]

Delightful !

[@rabiarabia8733]

This is just beautiful. ❤️

[@Professorc.]

So lovely 🥺🥺

[@user-fs1lc2cj5s]

usually a Freddie Gibbs guy. but this is unreal

[@marshallmccall9]

u should totally listen to the daniel johnston tony desk, i'm a huge rap fan as well. but that tiny desk had me balling my eyes out. have a good night homie!

[@user-fs1lc2cj5s]

@@marshallmccall9 Appreciate the recommendation, you have a beautiful day man

[@tlynch877]

thank you Mrs. Collins!

[@honeychurchgipsy6]

Love how Shirley is trying not to laugh as she sings the 'nonsense' lyrics of the last song - so charming!!

[@vswadson]

I love this Woman ❤️

[@woodyboley9785]

Can’t believe this... thanks. Made me a better person.

[@AlexisTwoLastNames]

this was a great, soft listen for this morning. and i learned some stuff.

[@joennsmiththth3967]

I am in love!

[@vblake530530]

Both beautiful and hypnotic !

[@lostalleycat]

Lovely and heartwarming.

[@Bycarolinemonteiro]

She is AMAZING 💖

[@farflownfalcon1076]

When granny sings to you. Lovely

[@owdhob]

what an absolute treasure

[@viaramos298]

this was so pure :(

[@SwirlyWhirlyXYZ]

A Sailors Life- Fairport Convention, one of my favorites. Thank you for showing me a source in Tell Me True

[@mustafa1name]

'Tell Me True' has many names and variant verses. It appears in the The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (Steve Roud and Julia Bishop, 2012) as 'Early, early, all in the spring' (no.41). Roud lists several other alternative titles: 'Sweet William', 'A sailor's life', 'The Sailor Boy', 'Father, father build me a boat', and notes that it was even more popular in North America than in Britain and Ireland.

[@sarahspector5294]

Thank you…what is that exquisite teardrop shaped instrument ? ? ? ? (Sweet Greens and Blues} ❤❤❤

[@herumplagen]

i abslutely love it! beautiful music, great stories and classy vibes. i think its about time to question the addiction of youth in our society. great and touching stories are everywhere.

[@Rocketscientist66]

What a treat, you both were awesome!!! Can‘t get enough of really authentic artists. Ian‘s picking skills with Shirley‘s voice pulled me in and wouldn‘t let go. Had to listen a 2nd round! 🤓 Cheers from Switzerland

[@bacon_de_chat]

beautiful and heartwarming. thank you very much.

[@deeonmxrs]

never knew i needed this.

[@JLockeM]

Why would anybody thumbs down this?

[@Specificpickle]

I didn't know I needed this because I didn't know it existed. Now I know I need it. Now I know it's real. True art! Also old Johnny buckle was fun.

[@mrskinner44]

Thank you. Very much made my day.

[@captal6187]

So beautiful... Alan Lomax WoW!

[@mialy]

I want her energy when will be 85! Great discovery :)

[@melissahayes2611]

this is so beautiful! amazing, lovely to see older people performing, and so well may I add. Thankyou for this you two xx

[@rociomargaritaromero2502]

This is so good! I love how her voice and the guitar go in the same direction

[@MadameBarree]

Thank you so much

[@barnosoirabarnosoira2002]

Superrr SWEET LOVE melodies straight from the heart...thank you so much for sharing😇😇😇

[@Lolo-uc2fm]

Singing to my heart ♥️

[@erflingnot]

This resonates and touches me

[@Hahnsangheon]

she has lovely voice

[@dugfern]

awesome!

[@jillianm2557]

Wow this is awesome!! Thank you both for your talent :) God bless

[@likeaferalhousewife]

I loved this