No Roses

No Roses is an album by Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band. It was recorded at Sound Techniques, and Air Studios in London, in the summer of 1971. It was produced by Sandy Roberton and Ashley Hutchings (Shirley Collins' husband at the time). It was released in October 1971 on the Pegasus label.

It is very unusual to have 27 musicians and singers on an album of traditional folk songs. It happened because people simply dropped in during recording sessions and were asked to join in. "The Murder of Maria Marten" is broken into segments, with parts of British folk rock alternating with more traditional parts featuring Shirley's voice and a hurdy-gurdy drone. Shirley had used a similar technique on "One Night As I Lay on My Bed" on "Adieu To Old England".

Some songs, for instance Poor Murdered Woman and Murder of the Maria Marten, feature big parts of the Fairport Convention line-up of late 1969 (Liege and Lief). In fact, Fairport Convention members Ashley Hutchings, Simon Nicol and Richard Thompson each appear on eight of the nine songs.

Murder of Maria Marten is about the Red Barn Murder.