I've just been listening to It'll Take Along Time, one of my favourite Sandy Denny songs. Sadly we lost Sandy in 1978, in a tragic accident falling downs stairs at her parent's home, but she left behind a great body of work. This is a lovely composition, with her sad and soulful voice soaring over the music, but it is made special by Richard Thompson's fantastic guitar playing. You can hardl...
Almax (MOGger of old) is currently "between homes", hence his absence from here, but he still posts on his own private blog (there is a good reason why it's private, incidentally). He's just posted about Fairport Convention's "Unhalfbricking", and I notice that "Who Knows Where The Time Goes" off that LP remains only a yellow button from over two years ago here.The song was written and sung by ...
Fairport Convention always had a really nice line in Dylan covers - that French version of "If You Gotta Go, Go Now" and the sublime "Percy's Song" from the second album. Sandy Denny continued the tradition on her first solo album "The North Star Grassman and the Ravens." Clearly she and the band were in what the British music magazines sometimes call "an advanced state of refreshment" when the...
I've just been listening to It'll Take Along Time, one of my favourite Sandy Denny songs. Sadly we lost Sandy in 1978, in a tragic accident falling downs stairs at her parent's home, but she left behind a great body of work. This is a lovely composition, with her sad and soulful voice soaring over the music, but it is made special by Richard Thompson's fantastic guitar playing. You can hardl...