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ReviewsArtist: Sandy DennyAlbum: Sandy Denny (Box Set)Label: UMCCDs: 19Website:Everything about Sandy Denny (Box Set) is huge, it racks up over three hundred tracks over 19 cds and will be retailing for well over a ton. My first thought on going over the figures was, whose actually going to buy that? Most of Sandy's follower's will have pretty much everything on the set will they stump up the wodge to get the few tracks they haven't already got?It's also not like anyone that's new to Sandy, is going to think, 'I've got to give Sandy Denny a try, I know I'll kick off with that 19 CD box set I saw advertised.' Ok there's quite a few people like me that were just too young to be there at the start and have been drawn to her incredible voice and performances in latter years, but we're not talking cheap here.Then it occurred to me that this isn't so much a box set as a festival of Sandy Denny and suddenly it all makes sense. Most of the big festivals cost well over a hundred quid, but ignore the cost and look at the value. How many bands do you see at a festival and how much would it cost to see them individually?This box set may be 19 cds long, but it's also better value than buying 19 individual records, plus you get a whole host of goodies thrown in, a 72 page booklet, the sleeves are all gatefold specials, previously unseen photos, reproductions of items that were important in the Sandy Denny story. There's also a limited edition on top of the regular box, that for 100 people will come with a framed and individually signed print of the artwork by Phil Smee.
Sandy Denny Box Set 19 Cds
Suddenly the value's there.I found it also helped to view the music as a festival, mentally splitting the box into stages. The band stage featuring, Fairport Convention, The Strawbs and Fotheringay, just think about that as a line up and then remember it's Sandy's voice of a generation that is carrying the lyric.Then there's the solo stage where the name Sandy Denny is right to the forefront, she takes responsibility for the whole kit and caboodle. Just hearing so much of her music back to back takes you off to a really special place, where once again music has meaning and is no longer just a sound track to your life.The thing about box sets is that you do listen to them differently, you have invested in them and you set time aside to listen to them properly just like you did when you bought vinyl.
Sandy Denny returns that dedication with a devotion that really only a handful of artists can.In addition there's also a third stage, which I'm going to call the experimental stage.
From: Arie Euwijk, July 14, 2010It's not often that box sets like this come along; 19cds from the recordings made by the UK's finest folk singer; Sandy Denny. The set is, essentially, in two parts. The first is made up of all of her studio recordings with added bonus tracks and the second is made up entirely of outtakes, demos, rarities and live recordings. So far, around 100 unreleased versions have been discovered, many more are on CD for the first time.
Many are acoustic demos, stripped down versions featuring Sandy on her own or with her guitar. Here are some of the key highlights:Lord Bateman demo: A real discovery of a song known to have been recorded but thought to have been lost. It was at the very end of a reel labelled as `blank, Sandy's voice suddenly sprang out, unaccompanied. A band arrangement had been prepared earlier where Sandy had obviously envisioned editing the lyrics into a shorter version, but no vocal was recorded on those sessions, and this version is much longer and performed at a different speed.Makes Me Think Of You: This is one of Sandy's final recordings and certainly her last original composition. Poignantly, the lyrics to the song are the final entry in her notebook.
The demo was recorded some time in 1977 after the main studio sessions for Rendezvous had already taken place and was most likely a work in progress intended for the next album.Moments (Acoustic version): An alternative version from Sandy's final studio session. Three arrangements were tried the first with a piano, a band arrangement with electric guitar, which was subsequently issued, and this acoustic version. This track is actually the final recording Sandy ever made.She Moves Through The Fair (Acoustic version): Amazingly this track is cut in a single take, recorded live with Sandy on guitar; the arrangement was later overdubbed onto this sublime Sandy performance.
You can actually hear Sandy tapping in time on the body of her guitar.The Pond and the Stream studio demo: An excellent self accompanied demo from an early Fotheringay session reel. This is particularly special, as other than the album version no other version of this song survives.Mr Lacey (Sandy lead vocal): There aren't a lot of outtakes or rehearsals from this period, but this great version with Sandy on lead vocal turned up. It's especially nice to have this as when Sandy rejoined Fairport she sang Mr Lacey during the 1975 tour, and although several bootlegs survive, until now there was no other high quality solo version.The Way I Feel original version: This was the first song recorded by Fotheringay and was cut live in a single take at Sound Techniques.
The song was later re-recorded with a slightly slower arrangement with Trevor Lucas on lead vocals, but this first version with Sandy and Trevor duet-ing on a powerful harmony vocal is surely definitive.I'm A Dreamer (demo): An incredibly powerful and faultless take of one of Sandy's strongest songs, which like the best of her demos, stands alone as a complete performance. This demo is also much more finished than the previously issued version.Dawn Alternate version: A really great discovery, of an alternate mix of this rare Sandy co-write with Jerry Donahue.
This song really comes into its own with the acoustic arrangement and slimmed down production.Candle in the wind (piano version): One of the real surprises on this set is how powerful and strong Sandy sounds on this song without the overdubs on the finished track.Gold Dust: This original version of Gold Dust was intended as the finished title track to Sandy's fourth solo album. The song was subsequently re-recorded along with several other tracks for the album that was eventually released as Rendezvous.