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Doc

[Devil Doc]

I sense another trend.

Doc

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"Legalize It", Tosh's first solo album after the break up of the Wailers

Doc

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Doc

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Wow, why did I wait so long to pick this up. Not sure how other vinyl versions sound, but this Classic pressing (on blue vinyl no less) is marveloous. Love it.

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Sandy Denny: North Star Grassman and the Ravens
"The best British singer I've ever heard". Robert Plant
"She sang like an angel, but she was no  angel." John Lennon
The only person to ever make a guest appearance on a Led Zeppelin album.

When Joplin, Morrison and Hendrix died, I didn't bat an eye. I chalked it up to stupidity. When Denny died a few weeks after falling down a flight of stairs, I was tore down. Yea, she was probably drunk, but was also, more than likely, suffering from post-partum depression. Something we knew very little about in the '70s. Heaven only knows what she would have accomplished had she lived.


Doc

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Considered her best.

Doc

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Mushroom Records, first pressing

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Doc

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My only Fairport Convention album.

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Good night

[Devil Doc]

My only Fairport Convention album.

If you can only have one, that's the one.

Doc

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If you can only have one, that's the one.

Doc

It is quite good. Assuming I can have more, which one would you recommend next?

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It is quite good. Assuming I can have more, which one would you recommend next?

Any with David Swarbrick and Sandy Denny. The ones without Denny are for the completest. Swarb is probably the best English Folk violinist ever. VG and better vinyl copies can be hard to find, unless of course you're willing to pay.

Doc

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Doc

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"Roots Rock and Roll"

Doc

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Any with David Swarbrick and Sandy Denny. The ones without Denny are for the completest. Swarb is probably the best English Folk violinist ever. VG and better vinyl copies can be hard to find, unless of course you're willing to pay.

Doc

Unhalfbricking: with Sandy Denny's own version of Who Knows where the time goes, is amazing.  Fairport in its early years did great versions of other people's songs, especially obscure Dylan, two of which are on Unhalfbricking.  "What we did on our Holidays" has the great song Fotheringay, which is an essential Sandy Denny song. 

Heyday:  BBC Sessions, is a compilation of times they appeared live on the BBC, contains "almost" definitive versions of Leonard Cohen's Suzanne and Bird on a Wire.  One of the very few times that Sandy Denny and Ian Matthews sang together, their singing (together and separate) is fabulous.

lastly, "live Convention" is wonderful (if a little uneven at times-Sandy Denny had rejoined the Band for a live tour, and her troubles were starting to show), their live version of "Sloth" is stunning and is likely my one live song in my Desert Island disks (Get your Ya Ya's Sympathy for the Devil would be the other).

But, Ms. lady,  with Liege and Leif, you have their most essential album.
Phil

The other Fairport album that I love is

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Any with David Swarbrick and Sandy Denny. The ones without Denny are for the completest. Swarb is probably the best English Folk violinist ever. VG and better vinyl copies can be hard to find, unless of course you're willing to pay.

Doc

Unhalfbricking: with Sandy Denny's own version of Who Knows where the time goes, is amazing.  Fairport in its early years did great versions of other people's songs, especially obscure Dylan, two of which are on Unhalfbricking.  "What we did on our Holidays" has the great song Fotheringay, which is an essential Sandy Denny song. 

Heyday:  BBC Sessions, is a compilation of times they appeared live on the BBC, contains "almost" definitive versions of Leonard Cohen's Suzanne and Bird on a Wire.  One of the very few times that Sandy Denny and Ian Matthews sang together, their singing (together and separate) is fabulous.

lastly, "live Convention" is wonderful (if a little uneven at times-Sandy Denny had rejoined the Band for a live tour, and her troubles were starting to show), their live version of "Sloth" is stunning and is likely my one live song in my Desert Island disks (Get your Ya Ya's Sympathy for the Devil would be the other).

But, Ms. lady,  with Liege and Leif, you have their most essential album.
Phil

[vinyl_lady]

Phil and Doc,

thanks for the introduction to other FC albums. I'm out to add to my meager FC collection.

Best,

Laura