Sandy Denny

Sandy Denny - I've Always Kept A Unicorn: The Acoustic Sandy Denny (2016) {2CD Set, Island 536 735-0}
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© 2016 Universal-Island Records | 536 735-0
Folk Rock / Progressive Folk / British Folk / Psychedelic / Singer–Songwriter

I've Always Kept A Unicorn is the best album that Sandy Denny never made. This 40-Track set captures Sandy at her most intimate as she runs through stripped down arrangements of songs with Strawbs, Fairport Convention, Fotheringay, The Bunch and from her four solo albums. Exclusive to this set are three demos from the original recording sessions for the 1972 Bunch album, Rock On including a beautiful duet with Linda Thompson on Phil Everly's "When Will I Be Loved" and Buddy Holly's "Love Made A Fool Of You" and "Learning The Game".

Sandy Denny's plaintive voice, haunting songs, and folk-rock style live on in the popular music of the 21st century, particularly in the recordings of Natalie Merchant, who so much resembles her in vocal timbre and overall approach, but also in her influence on other singer/songwriters, male and female. Denny never got her due in the U.S. during her lifetime, with only her third solo album, 1973's Like an Old Fashioned Waltz, and her final album with Fairport Convention, 1975's Rising for the Moon, even making the American charts.

Sandy Denny - The Music Weaver: Sandy Denny Remembered (2008) {2CD Set, Island 530 725-9 rec 1966-1977}
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© 1966-77, 2008 Universal-Island Records | 530 725-9
Folk Rock / Progressive Folk / British Folk / Psychedelic / Singer–Songwriter

A fantastic collection of wonderful songs. The brilliant Sandy Denny is sorely missed - a great interpreter of traditional and contemporary music alike. Released to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Sandy’s death, the compilation is the first to include Sandys duet with Robert Plant on Led Zepplin’s ‘Battle of Evermore’.

Sandy Denny - The North Star Grassman And The Ravens
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Cat#: Island ILPS 9165 (original pink rim Island) | Country/Year: UK 1971
Genre: Folk, Folk Rock | Hoster: FS + HF/FF

The North Star Grassman and the Ravens is a 1971 album by English folk rock singer-songwriter Sandy Denny. Preview included.

Sandy Denny - 19 Rupert St (1967) {Witchwood Media WMCD 2053 rel 2011}
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© 1967, 2011 Witchwood Media | WMCD 2053
Folk / Acoustic / British Folk / Folk Rock

Although little Sandy Denny material was released prior to her first album as part of Fairport Convention (1969's What We Did on Our Holidays), quite a few pre-Fairport recordings of the singer's survive, though they usually weren't made in the most technically sophisticated settings. This CD, recorded in the Glasgow home of folk singer Alex Campbell on August 5, 1967, was salvaged from a cassette and issued in 2011, when interest in Denny's work had escalated to a point where even documents of rather lo-fi quality held enough interest to merit a commercial release. This is clearly a recording for serious Denny fans because of those technical limitations; even some of the other home recordings from the time that have found both official and bootleg release boast superior sound.

Gold Dust: Live at the Royalty captures Sandy Denny's final concert. The show (performed on Sunday, November 27, 1977) was intended to be the first date of an 11-city tour, but it turned out to be her last show ever. It certainly wasn't the way anyone wanted Denny to leave the stage, but it remains an affecting, surprising farewell. There are familiar items, to be sure, but the concert also finds her breaking new ground and moving away from traditional folk-rock to an edgier sound. These are subtle distinctions that only hardcore fans will notice, but those fans will find Gold Dust a minor treasure.