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Since the seventies, I'm a big fan of Sandy Denny. It proposes in my perception the bridge between the British folk music, based on the very large extent the US, and the modern folk the sixties and seventies (Strawbs, Fairport Convention, Pentangle The Renaissance Steeleye Span et al).

Sandy Denny came in 1947 in London for the world and kicked during her training as a nurse in clubs. In 1967 she took on gemeinsan with the Strawbs their first album. In 1968 she moved to Fairport Convention, whose albums "Liege and Lief" and "What We Did On Our Holidays" are the folk rock to this day the epitome. At this time she began to write her own songs ("Who Knows Where the Time Goes").

The following year, Sandy Denny left Fairport Convention, and founded with other musicians the band Fotheringay, named after one of his own compositions, which had been the first time veröfentlicht on Fairport Convention album "What We Did On Our Holidays". (Fotheringhay Castle is the name of the castle, on the Mary Stuart was the last months of her life imprisoned and eventually executed.)

1971 Sandy Denny began a solo career that yielded four albums in the next six years. A short spell on the fourth album of the hopelessly overvalued Led Zeppelin - along with Robert Plant during vocal of rock ballad "The Battle of Evermore" - she made the same year a larger audience. Their last album "Rendezvous" was released in 1977. A year later she died as a result of a brain hemorrhage she had suffered in a fall down the stairs.

Sandy Denny had an incomparable sense of the rich treasure of traditional folk songs of their homeland. Your own songs fit seamlessly into the proffered traditional ways. She has succeeded to gather the best musicians and arrangers, they could get for their recordings. With rare exceptions are the lyrics and music in a harmonious whole.

When I came across this download a few months ago, I did not hesitate. The complete works of the most influential British folk musician of the 20th century plus of several demos and alternative tracks for - at that time - a mere 16,99 do not seem too much. For downloading you should choose a day.