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Shocking Omissions: Shirley Collins And Davy Graham's 'Folk Roots, New Routes'

The album spearheaded innovation in the middle of the folk music revival, set a template for the folk-rock that followed it and inspired 21st century psych-folk decades later.
Shirley Collins' 1964 album, <em>Folk Roots, New Routes</em>, is an uncompromising work that spearheaded innovation in the middle of the folk music revival.

This essay is one in a series celebrating deserving artists or albums not included on NPR Music's list of 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women.

In 1964, still bruised after turning down , Decca Records released two albums by acts who would go on to have lengthy, enduring legacies. The first was by , who had fallen for America's raw blues — including that of country blues musician , whose music had been discovered in.

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