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| rumbaba | Nov 8 2011, 06:10 PM Post #1 |
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Who knows where the time goes? Fairport Convention, featuring Sandy Denny (click here) Apologies, but I think this track deserves its own thread. Sandy Denny, taken so young (just 31, in 1978) and sadly missed. She wrote this in 1967 and, though it has been covered by lots of people, nobody sings it like Sandy.
Edited by rumbaba, Nov 8 2011, 06:19 PM.
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| waiting4atickle | Nov 9 2011, 12:49 AM Post #2 |
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Just beautiful.
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| caissier | Nov 9 2011, 11:31 AM Post #3 |
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Oh yes ...... a wondrous voice with the feeling of the time ..... poignant and hopeful. She died young and beautiful. |
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| Aware-Adult | Nov 9 2011, 11:32 AM Post #4 |
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Some interesting g-minor arpeggios sneaked in the guitar lines providing harmony colour, without modulating to a different key. Makes a very pleasant change to hear somebody (Sandy Denny) singing in tune and with sensitivity. I don’t get how the current ‘X-hit-star-machine’ brigade are given so much air time. Their dissonant racket is an abomination. Can people no longer hear when a note is not in tune? “Bring back real music” |
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| rumbaba | Nov 9 2011, 11:39 AM Post #5 |
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The only( minor) criticism of this version is that IMO Richard Thompson's guitar is a little bit too 'busy', but this is the best vocal performance I have heard by anyone, including the various other Sandy versions. It has been covered by Nina Simone, Eva Cassidy, Judy Collins, Kate Rusby, Nancy Griffith and many more. |
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| caissier | Nov 9 2011, 11:40 AM Post #6 |
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That was a time of attempted idealism, innocence and sweetness. Now is now. |
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| rumbaba | Nov 9 2011, 11:56 AM Post #7 |
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I like the guitar AA, Richard Thompson is a great player, very sensitve, he was very young at the time, I think now he would hold back a little bit but it is a very minor observation, not really a criticism. I agree about the current X-Factor culture that somehow manages to audition thousands of people and still have people who can't sing in the last few at the end. the problem is that people think singing is easy, that almost anyone can do it and you don't have to work at it like another instrument. In some ways, it is the hardest thing to get right. The reason I posted this track now was that my old friend T Bone Duffy (a musician who has been writing, singing and playing for more than 40 years) posted it on his facebook page with this comment; "One of my favourites. Just have to listen to this every now and then to remind me what power real singing has." Edited by rumbaba, Nov 9 2011, 11:56 AM.
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| May-Cee | Jan 17 2012, 02:39 PM Post #8 |
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I'm not really a "folkie", but I love music enough to know I should really start listening to some Fairport stuff; always meant to, never got round to it. I agree; "Who Knows..." is a very haunting wee tune. On the other, short-lived Forum, there was a WOM "Mis-heard Lyrics" thread. I said at the time that I always hear the line - "All your fickle friends are leaving..." As - "All your pickled friends are leaving..." Joking aside, I appreciate the sad irony of my "mis-heard" lyric... in terms of Sandy Denny's personal demons and early death. PS: I'm familiar with that wonderful song only because I have it on a "Q"-mag compilation. The very next track is John Martyn's extraordinary "Solid Air"; a tribute to Nick Drake, I believe. It's amazing; very "Astral Weeks"-era Van Morrison; in its mood, elliptical lyric, style you can't quite pin down. John Martyn is another guy whose stuff I really should get to know. |
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| rumbaba | Jan 17 2012, 02:52 PM Post #9 |
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I like John Martyn but only saw him live the one time, in Edinburgh. Like Sandy, he was plagued by addictions, which cost him his leg and, eventually, his life. He made the transition from a brilliant acoustic player to a very interesting and influential electric player. I think that was partly to do with losing his speed and dexterity (too much dope). I am not sure if this is the original version from 'The Tumbler', the album he made when he was 19, I hope so. 'Seven black roses' is pretty impressive, although I am more of a fan of his later stuff . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c80pa9lCFjQ Oh, it's a live version, even better
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| chris crossing | Jan 18 2012, 04:34 PM Post #10 |
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Just beautiful, thanks rum! Always a great fan of Fairport and Thompson whom I've seen three times. Apologies in advance: I really don't wish to sidetrack, but this still sends a shiver down my spine after 45 years. Be sure to watch to the end. A young, nervous Grace Slick appears with Paul Kantner and Co live on the Smothers Brothers comedy show - well, I never recovered from the first time I heard her sing this. The sound quality is poor, but what a (adjectivedeleted) voice! Tragic what the booze did to her - I saw Kantner a couple of years back here in England - OMG, a mere hollow shell .Smothers Brothers (Fading notes of Hall & Oates at the start!) Woodstock version Studio version Sorry for the intrusion! |
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| rumbaba | Jan 18 2012, 06:00 PM Post #11 |
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Not at all Chris. Great stuff. I'm all in favour of threads taking on their own life and going wherever. No R4 Anna doing 'sadly off topic' on here
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| rumbaba | Jan 18 2012, 06:47 PM Post #12 |
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'Seven Black Roses', was a bit of a technical exercise, with the capo shifting, but great fun as well as being impressive for guitar players to watch. John had a lot of heart, and you can hear that in a musician. There are people who are technically very good but don't really pull at your heart strings. The Smothers Brothers Show (the GTOs auditioned for that)and Grace Slick and some of the other JA's are named checked in Pauline Butcher's book about living andd working in Laurel Canyon with the Zappa 'circus'. Edited by rumbaba, Jan 18 2012, 06:49 PM.
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