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Posted - 28/04/2014 : 14:47:33
...for those who haven't discovered the pleasure of this lost gem.
Sandy Denny1967-1968
Borrowed Thyme: The complete home demos
01. Setting Of The Sun
02. Box Full Of Treasures
03. They Don't Seem To Know You
04. Gerrard Street
05. Fotheringay
06. She Moves Through The Fair
07. The Time Has Come
08. Seven Virgins
09. Little Bit Of Rain
10. Go Your Way My Love
11. Cradle Song
12. Blue Tatoo
13. The Quiet Land Of Erin
14. I Love My True Love
15. Let No Man Steal Your Thyme
16. Carnival
17. Who Knows Where The Time Goes
18. This Train
19. Make A Pallet On Your Floor
20. Last Thing On My Mind
21. You Never Wanted Me
22. Hold On To Me Babe
23. Blues Run The Game
24. Been On The Road So Long
Home demos 1967-1968, plus BBC
Tracks 1-8: Home demos 1967
Tracks 9-13: Home demos, winter 1968
Tracks 14-16: unknown dates
Track 17: Home demo with The Strawbs
Tracks 18-21: JOHNNY SILVO FOUR, BBC, January 1968
Tracks 22-23: BBC, Cellar Full Of Folk, March 6, 1967
Track 24: BBC, My Kind Of Folk, June 26, 1967
http://www.filefactory.com/file/oe6kkpe8xj3/n/1966-1968_-_Borrowed_Thyme.rar
Thanks to all ...
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Review by Richie Unterberger - Allmusicguide
Denny did not record all that much during her career. She is not exactly a catalog megaseller, despite her fervid cult status. And there was already much notable unreleased Denny material bootlegged on the well-packaged Dark the Night CD and various other Fairport Convention, Fotheringay, and solo Denny bootlegs before the 2001 appearance of this disc, which despite the lack of a label name is very professional looking. All this taken into consideration, it's astounding that these 24 tracks -- none of which appear on Dark the Night -- are a substantial and worthy addition to the collection of the serious Denny fan. All of the material dates from her early career in 1966-1968, the first 17 of the 24 songs culled from 1966-1968 solo demos, in which she's accompanied only by guitar. Many of these songs (including half a dozen which bear the writing credit "unknown") never appeared on any of her official recordings, and there are early versions of some of her standout original compositions ("Fotheringay," "Who Knows Where the Time Goes"), traditional folk tunes like "She Moves Through the Fair" and "Let No Man Steal Your Thyme," and a cover of Fred Neil's great "Little Bit of Rain." The singing is always good and sometimes magnificent, even if the execution is sometimes more tentative than what would have been allowed on a final studio master. The final seven songs, taken from 1967-1968 BBC sessions (four of them as a singer with the Johnny Silvo Four, the rest solo), suffer from notably substandard fidelity, but nonetheless are good performances, including covers of tunes by songwriters like Tom Paxton and Jackson Frank, as well as traditional folk numbers. If the sound quality of the demos were better, this album would rate higher; some of those demos boast virtually perfect fidelity, others are tainted by a bit of varispeed wobble or slight distortion. Still, for the most part it's wonderfully haunting, sad British folk, filling out our picture of the early work of one of the greatest British folk and folk-rock singers.
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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music".
-Aldous Huxley
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