Shirley Collins announces Christmas card flexi-disc single

Shirley Collins is happy to announce news of her Christmas single; taken from Collins’ recent album Heart’s Ease, “The Christmas Song” will be receiving a special signed, flexi-disc Christmas card release on November 13th.

Bringing some much-needed cheer, “The Christmas Song” is a song from the renowned Copper Family of Rottingdean in East Sussex. They lived and worked the land around there for over four centuries – the earliest Copper entry in the Parish Register of Rottingdean church is dated 1593. Collins adds: “It's one of my favourite of the Copper Family songs.”

Watch the visualiser for “The Christmas Song” here.

“The Christmas Song” is available to pre-order on flexi-disc here.

Recorded at Metway in Brighton with The Lodestar Band, Heart’s Ease is as compelling and original as Shirley’s great albums from the Sixties and Seventies. There are traditional songs, of course, from England and the USA, but there are also more new songs than in the past (four non-traditional tracks) and there’s even a burst of experimentation that hints at possible new directions to come. The album is a glorious reminder that Shirley Collins is still in a class of her own, both as a folk singer with a distinctive no-nonsense style that is all her own, and as an innovator.

Heart’s Ease is available to buy on limited edition Domino Mart exclusive coloured LP (with gold foil detail sleeve, 4 page booklet & 7" featuring a recording of “Sweet Greens and Blues” from 1964 with Davy Graham, previously never released, and a corn dolly design by Cathy Ward on the B-side), deluxe LP (with gold foil detail sleeve), standard LP, CD and digitally.