The Guardian article is like other Guardian articles about folk. It doesn't really give any idea of what the music that Shirley helped to promote was actually like. This may not be an easy task but surely not impossible.

I enjoyed No Roses best, Shirley Collins and the Albion Band, excellent Folk Rock - traditional songs played using electric guitars, drums, melodeons and fiddles etc. I think. Not at all typical of what she did but neither was Folk Roots - New Routes.