Sandy Denny
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Biography
[Edit]Maddy Prior, Jacqui McShee, and June Tabor all give her a run for her money, but the late Sandy Denny remains the pre-eminent British folk-rock singer. In addition to recording several albums of her own, Denny was an integral force behind the best work of the most respected British folk-rock band of all, Fairport Convention, and also contributed mightily to recordings by the Strawbs and Fotheringay. It's impossible for words to fully evoke the haunting, spectral presence of her powerful and penetrating alto voice, which seemed to bring the mythology of English moors and folktales to life in contemporary, 20th century settings.
Denny was studying to be a nurse when she began to pursue music seriously in the mid-'60s, partially at the encouragement of the then-struggling Simon & Garfunkel, whom she met when they were still unknown. She was also friendly with the American folk singer Jackson Frank, and recorded a couple of his songs on her first album (now available as The Original Sandy Denny). While this solo acoustic recording was her most traditional folk effort, it showed considerable potential, which she came closer to realizing on the 1967 album she recorded as a member of the Strawbs. This found her singing with fuller folk-rock arrangements, and also included her first recorded composition, "Who Knows Where the Time Goes." The song gave Denny her first international recognition when Judy Collins recorded it in 1968.
Denny was tapped to replace Judy Dyble in Fairport Convention in 1968, and is prominently featured on their late-'60s albums What We Did on Our Holidays, Unhalfbricking, and Liege and Lief. These are not only recognized as Fairport's best work, but as some of the finest British folk-rock records of all time. Although Denny shared the lead vocal chores with other members of the group, it was her singing that highlighted the best tracks, such as "Tam Lin," "Fotheringay," and "Autopsy" (the last two of which she wrote).
Denny left Fairport Convention in 1970, and while both she and Fairport would produce some worthwhile work in the future, it's fair to say that neither band nor singer would reach the same peaks again. She formed the short-lived Fotheringay, which also included her future husband Trevor Lucas on guitar, but which disbanded after one decent album (a planned second LP was never completed). She recorded a few solo albums for Island in the 1970s that sometimes suffered from unsympathetic over-production and weak material, though the highlights are worth hearing. There was also an unremarkable album of oldies covers that she helped out with as a member of the Bunch, a British folk supersession of sorts that also included Richard Thompson. When mainstream rock listeners heard her voice in the 1970s, however, it was usually not on her own records, but as a guest vocalist on Led Zeppelin's "The Battle of Evermore."
Much of the best of Denny's later solo work, oddly, is found on live and BBC recordings, some of which surfaced on the box set Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (others appear on the bootleg Dark the Night). While Denny was a first-rate folk-rock singer, she usually didn't mesh well with mainstream rock or hard rock arrangements, and the live work usually framed her vocals in more appropriately sparse settings. She joined Fairport again for a while in the mid-'70s, appearing on the 1975 album Rising for the Moon, but the reunion didn't really excite either the participants or the audiences, and she left for good in 1976. Her final LP, Rendezvous, came out in 1977; the following year, she died from injuries sustained in a fall down a flight of stairs. In 1998, Island released Gold Dust, a recording of her final live performance taped at London's Royalty Theatre on November 27, 1977.
Title: The Music Weaver (Sandy Denny Remembered) (CD2)
Artist: Sandy Denny
Genre: Folk Rock, World Music, Folk
Title: I've Always Kept A Unicorn ~ The Acoustic (CD2)
Artist: Sandy Denny
Genre: Folk Rock, World Music
Title: Gold Dust - The Final Concert
Artist: Sandy Denny
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Psychedelic
Title: All Our Own Work: The Complete Sessions
Artist: Sandy Denny, Strawbs
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, Progressive Rock
Title: Rendezvous (Deluxe Edition)
Artist: Sandy Denny
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, World Music, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist, Psychedelic
Title: Sandy Denny - Complete Edition
Artist: Sandy Denny
Genre: World Music, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: I've Always Kept A Unicorn ~ The Acoustic (CD1)
Artist: Sandy Denny
Genre: Folk Rock, World Music, Folk
Title: Like An Old Fashioned Waltz
Artist: Sandy Denny
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, World Music, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist, Psychedelic
Title: I've Always Kept a Unicorn - The Acoustic Sandy Denny
Artist: Sandy Denny
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: The North Star Grassman and the Ravens (Deluxe Edition)
Artist: Sandy Denny
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Psychedelic
Title: Sandy (Remastered)
Artist: Sandy Denny
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Psychedelic, Contemporary Folk, Celtic
Title: The Best of Sandy Denny
Artist: Sandy Denny
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, World Music, Pop, Songwriter/Lyricist, Psychedelic
Title: Like an Old Fashioned Waltz (Remastered)
Artist: Sandy Denny
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, World Music, Pop, Songwriter/Lyricist, Psychedelic
Title: All Our Own Work
Artist: Sandy Denny, Strawbs
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Psychedelic
Title: Ebbets Field 1974
Artist: Sandy Denny, Fairport Convention
Genre: Rock, World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: No More Sad Refrains - The Anthology
Artist: Sandy Denny
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Psychedelic
Title: The Original Sandy Denny
Artist: Sandy Denny
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, World Music, Celtic, Folk
Title: The Notes and the Words: A Collection of Demos and Rarities
Artist: Sandy Denny
Genre: Rock, World Music, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Rendevous (Remastered)
Artist: Sandy Denny
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Psychedelic
Title: Listen, Listen - An Introduction To Sandy Denny
Artist: Sandy Denny
Genre: World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Title: The Music Weaver (Sandy Denny Remembered) (CD1)
Artist: Sandy Denny
Genre: Folk Rock, World Music, Folk
Title: The North Star Grassman and the Ravens (Remastered)
Artist: Sandy Denny
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Psychedelic, Contemporary Folk
Collections
Title: Border Lands: The Best of Scottish Folk
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Back To Mine: Guillemots
Genre: Ambient, Downtempo, Trip Hop, Electronica, House
Title: A Boxful Of Treasures
Genre: World Music
Title: The Acoustic Folk Box (Disc 1)
Genre: Blues, World Music, Pop
Title: Anthology Of English Folk
Genre: Folk Rock, World Music
Title: Scarborough Fair ~ The Best Of English Folk (CD1)
Genre: Blues, World Music, Country, Folk
Title: A Taste Of Strawbs
Genre: Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Title: 70s Singer-Songwriter Essentials (CD1)
Genre: Soul, Blues, Jazz, Rock, Punk, World Music, Country, Classical, Folk
Title: Country & Folk 2021
Genre: World Music, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Title: Folk Rock Essentials (CD2)
Featuring albums
Title: Late Night Tales: Midlake
Artist: Midlake
Genre: Electronica, Rock, Folk Rock, Progressive Rock, World Music, Country, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist, Psychedelic, Contemporary Folk
Title: Strawbs
Artist: Strawbs
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Psychedelic
Title: Border Lands: The Best of Scottish Folk
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Title: Late Night Tales
Artist: Midlake
Genre: Electronica, Rock, Folk Rock, Progressive Rock, Dancefloor, World Music, Country, Dance Pop, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist, Psychedelic, Contemporary Folk
Title: Definitive Collection Mini - Lp Replica CD4
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Genre: Folk Rock, Heavy Metal, World Music, Pop
Title: Midlake
Artist: Midlake
Genre: Downtempo, Trip Hop, Electronica, Soul, Indie Rock, Disco, Funk, Experimental