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Sandy Denny

Music Weaver: Sandy Denny Remembered

a stripped down version of the hugely successful sandy denny boxset this album features 16 of the best tracks one of the finest singers england has ever produced sandy denny was a linchpin of the original fairport convention delivering alongside richard thompson and ian matthews a radical mixture of dylan covers and renaissance music she helped make fairport leaders of britain's '60s olde musik revival her earliest recordings were straightfolk workouts with mostly just voice and guitar digging into a revealing selection of cover tunes 'the north star grassman' and the 'ravens' is her final triumph of the style making way for the fine modern folk of 'sandy' and 'like an old fashioned waltz' the latter features a deft remake of cahnchaplin's 'until the real thing comes along' suggesting a neverdeveloped jazz direction