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New #review today: "#TheOwlService is an English alternative folk music collective formed in 2006 by multi-instrumentalist #StevePaulCollins. Back in 1990 Collins was a teen, and unsurprisingly a metalhead. One day, while working in his local record shop he discovered #Fotheringay’s 1970 debut album, and a new world opened up. His love of #SandyDenny’s music led to the formation of The Owl Service sixteen years later." #ExposeOnline #FairportConvention #FolkRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-owl-service-a-tribute-to-sandy-denny-6.html
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New #review today: "#LaNouvelleMusique, the London-based duo of #JoannaBeck (vocals and bass) and #IanDeSylva (guitar), have produced an album of ten originals plus a cover of #SandyDenny’s “Crazy Lady Blues.” The songs are a mixture of Joanna’s ethereal vocals, acoustic guitar, #AcidFolk, #ProgressiveRock, keyboards, and exquisite vocal harmonies." #ExposeOnline #FruitsDeMerRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/la-nouvelle-musique-la-nouvelle-musique-6.html
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NEW post: Sandy Denny "Her voice and vision still resonate: a reminder that the most profound melancholy can also be luminous, alive and simply beautiful."
We review 10 of the best from the ‘solo’ records of #SandyDenny
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
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🎵 It'll Take A Long Time (Radio 1 Session, 25 Oct 1972) -
Self-Titled Summer | Fotheringay (1970, UK)
Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 280 on The List, submitted by baz. Here’s a quick rundown:
- Point of origin(s): Fotheringay was a British folk rock quintet formed by Sandy Denny after she left Fairport Convention (following the release of their 1969 Liege & Leaf, which we looked at nearly a year ago in a SpaceAce Sunday), named after Denny’s song of the same name from the Fairport Convention album What We Did on Our Holidays. The other members were Denny’s partner and Australian guitarist Trevor Lucas plus drummer Gerry Conway (both formerly of folk psych prog rock band Eclection), and American guitarist Jerry Donahue and Scottish bassist Pat Donaldson (both formerly of prog psych group Poet and The One Man Band). This was their debut album.
- Tasting notes: Folk rock with some jazzy bits, Sandy Denny’s remarkable voice, wistful longing
- Standout track: Their cover of Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Way I Feel” – I want that song to last forever. The opener “Nothing More”, the first piano track Denny would write, is also fantastic (as it is on their live album, Essen 1970, released in 2011).
- Where are they now?/RIP: This is the only album released while the original lineup was together. They disbanded in January 1971 during recording sessions for a second album. While some of this material would later be released in 2008 under the title 2, some was used for Denny’s debut solo album (the 1971 The North Star Grassman and the Ravens) and on a Fairport Convention album (the 1972 Rosie), as Conway, Donahue, and Lucas had all joined that band after Fotheringay broke up (Donahue and Lucas from 1972-5, Conway just briefly at the time as a session musician, but then again later from 1998-2022). Denny would go on to have a successful but short solo career (with her former bandmates appearing on some of her albums), and would also briefly rejoin Fairport Convention in 1974-5. She tragically died in 1978 at the age of 31. Lucas then returned to Australia and mainly worked as a producer and film score composer until his death in 1989. In addition to his long stint in Fairport Convention, Conway was also in Pentangle from 1987 until his death just last year (he was married to Pentangle’s singer, Jacqui McShee). Donahue has a rather lengthy CV, working as both a musician (including guitar trio The Hellecasters plus being in The Yardbirds around 2004-5) and producer, at least up until a stroke in 2016 that affected his ability to play guitar. Donaldson was also in a few other bands and worked as a session musician (including for John Cale and Stevie Nicks)[1] at least into the 2010s. Quite a group, this one.
- Websites: Wikipedia
Happy listening!
- Though a non-Fotheringay/Fairport Convention-related tidbit, a fun find for me in writing this up is Donaldson’s work on Mae McKenna’s Everything That Touches Me (1976). I know this album as McKenna is the mother of Jamie Woon, whose debut LP we’ll see in a future spotlight because I had added it to The List. ↩︎
#1970s #BritishFolk #FairportConvention #folkRock #Fotheringay #GerryConway #JerryDonahue #music #musicDiscovery #PatDonaldson #SandyDenny #selftitled #TrevorLucas
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Listening to one my all-time favourite tracks
Fairport Convention, Who knows where the times goes?
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Sandy Denny - Early Home Recordings
The postman handed this to me 15 minutes ago, so this is my first listen.
A double LP issued in 2022 as part of Record Store Week, this is taken from recordings made, as the title suggests, at home in 1966 and 1967, with other recordings from 1968, all before Sandy joined Fairport Convention.
My initial reaction is how good the quality is given it was recorded on relatively basic equipment.
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All Our Own Work - Sandy Denny and the Strawbs
After guesting on two folk albums, in 1967 Sandy Denny travelled to Copenhagen with the Strawbs for a folk festival. There, they were invited by Karl Knudsen to record together. Sandy joined Fairport Convention shortly afterwards, and the album was not released until 1973, when it came out on the budget label Pickwick.
The album contains an early version of Denny's most famous song, Who Knows Where The Time Goes. -
What We Did On Our Holidays - Fairport Convention
After the departure of Judy Dyble, the Fairports recruited Sandy Denny, who had been singing with the Strawbs. To many, Denny's clear, bell like vocals are what they associate most with Fairport Convention, and this is is their first album with her in the lineup.
#nowPlaying #FairportConvention #SandyDenny #music #folkRock #vinyl
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#MorningCoffeeAlbum with a Tunnock's Teacake!
Fotheringay - Self titled album
Sandy Denny and her future husband, Trevor Lucas formed Fotheringay following Denny's departure from Fairport Convention. This was the only album released while the band were together (Fotheringay 2 would eventually be released in 2008)
#nowPlaying #Fotheringay #SandyDenny #FairportConvention #music #vinyl
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#MorningCoffeeAlbum
Sandy and Johnny - Sandy Denny and Johnny SilvoThe second issued recording of Sandy Denny, this is a curious album. Released in 1967 on budget label Saga, it doesn't include any duets, but rather alternates contributions from Johnny Silvo, a perfectly good if ordinary folk/skiffle singer, and the exquisite voice of 20 year old Sandy Denny.
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Alex Campbell & His Friends
My father would have liked this album from 1967, which arrived yesterday. A gathering of fine folk singers performing as though they were in a folk club rather than a studio.
I bought it because it has what are probably the first recordings from Sandy Denny, then aged 20. I'll put a YouTube link to one of her contributions in a reply to this. -
#MorningCoffeeAlbum with my last chocolate cookie!
The North Star Grassman and The Ravens
Following the breakup of Fotheringay after one album, this is the first of a series of solo records that cemented Sandy Denny's place as one of the most gifted singer/songwriters of her generation.
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The next album SpaceAce submitted to this project is the fourth studio album from Fairport Convention, number 485 in The List.
This is the only album of the 25 SpaceAce submitted that is also on the “official” list. Like many other contributors to The List, SpaceAce was quite careful to submit only albums that are “other” (i.e., that had been missed by the official list), so I’m going to take the inclusion of this one as an emphatic “you got to listen to this…or else, HA HA”.
This is the last Fairport album to feature the spectacular Sandy Denny on vocals. Denny had joined the band the previous year, and together they put out three releases. Denny is credited with nudging Fairport away from being a “British Jefferson Airplane” (i.e., worshipping at the altar of American music) towards being a full-on British folk rock band. Denny quit the band soon after Liege & Lief was released, and formed Fotheringay, whose only release we’ll eventually meet in another spotlight (not submitted by SpaceAce, but I imagine only because it had already been added to The List before he joined the project). As mentioned in our previous 6 Degrees of Separation series, we’ll also hear from Denny again when we get to Led Zeppelin IV. In the meantime, thanks to SpaceAce, we’ll lay our Denny foundation with this lovely album.
In memory of our dearly missed friend, let’s raise a glass and take a listen together.
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/09/15/spaceace-sunday-fairport-convention-liege-lief-1969-uk/
#1001OtherAlbums #1960s #BritishFolk #FairportConvention #folkRock #SandyDenny #SpaceAceSunday
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Today is Part 3 (of 8) of our 6 Degrees game with The List. And, again, because we’re doing a bit of a Prince-theme, we’ll be picking out some fun Prince-connections below the set.
Okay, carrying on from where we left off last time…
6 Degrees of Separation: Led Zeppelin to Tagaq
Led Zeppelin – Untitled (or “Led Zeppelin IV“) (list number 780)
>> R.E.M.’s Automatic for the People was arranged by John Paul Jones, the bass player of Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin’s fourth album features guest vocals from Sandy Denny (on the track “The Battle of Evermore”), who was in…Fairport Convention – Liege & Lief (485)
…Fairport Convention, whose Liege & Lief album was produced by Joe Boyd, who also produced a number of albums by Nico, who was in/on…The Velvet Underground & Nico – The Velvet Underground & Nico (834)
…this album with The Velvet Underground. Lou Reed of The Velvet Underground would later become a close friend of Anohni of…Anohni and The Johnsons – My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross (969)
…Anohni and the Johnsons, and the song “Sliver of Ice” on this album was based on a conversation Anohni had with Reed during the final months before he left us. Anohni is also friends (and has collaborated with, e.g., here)…Björk – Debut (760)
…Björk (see their amazing chat about My Back…, “Sliver of Ice”, and other topics here). Björk has also collaborated with (and produced the first album by)…Tagaq – Auk / Blood (2)
Tanya Tagaq. <<Prince 6
Here are some fun connections the above artists have to The Purple One:
- Prince was apparently a huge Led Zeppelin fan. Watch him absolutely shredding it while covering Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” here.
- Like The Velvet Underground and their song “Jesus“, Prince had a straight-up gospel song (“The Cross“, among various other songs with religious lyrics) that stood out as being quite, umm, different from the content of his other songs.
- Lou Reed’s final Spotify playlist had Prince’s song “Kiss” on it (on Part 1; see also Part 2).
- Producer/engineer/musician Mark Plati worked with both Prince (Graffiti Bridge) and Lou Reed (as well as David Bowie – who was in Part 1 of our 6 Degrees series – on Earthling).
- In a 1997 Mojo interview, Prince mentioned that he dug some of Björk’s work: “I crave great musicianship, and I don’t care who provides it. I’ve got no problems saying I dig D’Angelo. Or some of the things that Bjork does, the Cocteau Twins. Musicians, we’re family.”
- The 2007 compilation A Tribute to Joni Mitchell features both Prince (covering “A Case of You”) and (covering “The Boho Dance”) (as well as Sufjan Stevens and k.d. lang, who are both also on The List, as is Joni).
Tune in on Monday for Part 4, to see how we get from Tagaq to Explosions in the Sky!
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/04/13/6-degrees-of-separation-part-3/
#1001OtherAlbums #6DegreesOfSeparation #Anohni #AnohniAndTheJohnsons #Björk #DavidBowie #FairportConvention #JoeBoyd #JohnPaulJones #JoniMitchell #LedZeppelin #LouReed #MarkPlati #Nico #Prince #REM #SandyDenny #Tagaq #TheVelvetUnderground #VelvetUnderground
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Fotheringay with #SandyDenny (and #richardthompson on lead guitar) - Late November https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtlCtzgkBSg&pp=ygUZZm90aGVyaW5nYXkgbGF0ZSBub3ZlbWJlcg%3D%3D #music #folk #folkrock #UK
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Song of the day
Sandy Denny, 'Late November'
Because it certainly feels like late November today.