Anne Briggs - Original 1971 UK Topic label 13-track Vinyl LP

Rare original 1971 UK Topic label 10-track LP - the debut album by immensely talented and influential British folk singer - featuring a couple of her own compositions but otherwise mostly traditional unaccompanied songs carried by Briggs passionate, breathtakingly pure and beautiful voice - and a couple with bouzouki and acoustic guitar accompaniment.

Vinyl has the generic navy blue and silver printed company labels with top capital lettering name-logo in large font.

Vinyl has machine stamped matrix information:
Side 1: 407.A1-A, mother/stamper 1 N
Side 2: 407.B1-A, mother/stamper 1 N

Vinyl is housed in a Robert Stace printed picture cover laminated on front and over the spine.

Condition: VG++ (Vinyl and Labels)/VG+(+)(Cover)

Vinyl is outstanding - bright and lustrous and with hardly any sleeve inflicted wear. Side 1 label has a single short, superficial and simple spindletrace in the immediate surrounding of the center hole - Side 2 three or four.
Vinyl is overall graded near mint.

Cover has a few smaller wrinkles from spine, a handful slightly longer ones from top and bottom seam and a single ca 3 cm one along top-left vinyl outline. Front cover has otherwise bright and intyact laminate with deep, unfaded brown printing underneath. Front cover has a few short and thin stretches of laminate lift along spine.

Back cover has just a touch of ringwear.
Seams are straight and without splits or pressure point - spine is hardly pressurized and easily readable - opening edges without rubbing. Corners are perfectly pointy - this is a very nice copy which has only more marginal imperfections - which has no real influence of the xperience of the cover - graded at least VG+.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1. Blackwater Side
2. The Snow It Melts The Soonest
3. Willie O'Winsbury
4. Go Your Way (Anne Briggs)
5. Thorneymoor Woods

Side 2:
1. The Cuckoo
2. Reynardine
3. Young Tambling
4. Living By The Water (Anne Briggs)
5. Ma Bonny Lad

Recorded in 1971.

Credits:
Anne Briggs - Vocals, Guitar (Blackwater Side, Go Your Way), Bouzouki (Willie O'Winsbury, Living By The Water)
John Moynihan - 2nd Bouzouki (Willie O'Winsbury)

Technical Credits:
Albert Lancaster "Bert" Lloyd - Production
Sean Davies - Recording Engineer

Artwork:
Humphrey Weightman - Sleeve Design
Patrick Delap - Photography
Albert Lancaster "Bert" Lloyd - Liner Notes