Anne Briggs - The Time Has Come (1971 Remaster) (2008)

'The Time Has Come', Anne's first and last CBS album originally released in 1971, reinforced Anne as one of the most talented writers of traditional English folk music possessing as pure and breathtakingly beautiful a voice as one could imagine. The album was enthusiastically reviewed at the time from the NME to the journal of the English Folk Dance. Playing the Royal Festival Hall in the same year supporting Bert Jansch in what was by then a rare solo show, she was also heavily complimeted on her live performances of the songs with words like 'beautiful', 'uncompromising', 'compelling' and 'impossible' being lavished on the typically nervous goddess of folk. Anne Briggs' influence is still often recognised today amongst the the current wave of 'nu-folk' people like Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsome and Beth Orton. 'The Time Has Come' has been remastered for optimum sound quality and is repackaged in a stylish digipack, complete with new photographs and sleevenotes written by author Colin Harper with an introduction by Bob Stanley (Saint Etienne).