GOLD VINYL.
This 2LP set, entitled Early Home Recordings, brings together 27 old recordings from the 1960s (mainly 1966-67) of pre-Fairport Convention Sandy Denny. Carefully remastered, this package includes an exclusive new essay by Fairport Convention biographer Patrick Humphries - who knew Sandy personally. Included are two different rare demos of her classic 'Who Knows Where the Time Goes' from 1967 (before she recorded it with the Strawbs) and another from 1968. She had this incredible talent, this incredible voice - she played 'Who Knows Where the Time Goes' and I nearly fell off my chair. - Linda Thompson. There are also a number of songs penned by Sandy, including 'Boxful Of Treasures', which was later rewritten as the song 'Fotheringay' (from Fairport Convention's What We Did On Our Holidays album). Fotheringay" also appears here in demo form. "She needs to be re-evaluated. She wrote a type of song that is very rarely written today - emotional, musically interesting, really well sung - serious songwriting. She was head and shoulders above the rest. And she remains so." - Ashley Hutchings (founder of Fairport Convention). There are also soulful covers of Jackson C. Frank, Fred Neil, Anne Briggs, Dylan and many traditional folk songs. The definitive collection of Denny's early demos, authorized by her estate, with Sandy's daughter Georgia Lucas's own charming drawings of her mother, appearing for the first time on an official Denny release, plus previously unpublished images of Sandy in the 1960s. Liner notes by reissue producer Pat Thomas.
