Description
Strictly limited edition 19 CD box set. 11 of the CDs feature Sandy's studio recordings with Alex Campbell, Johnny Silvo, Fotheringay, Strawbs, Fairport Convention and solo with additional content; outtakes, demos and live recordings. There are 8 CDs of bonus material; unreleased songs, demos, unreleased BBC recordings, alternate takes, live recordings, acoustic versions, and rare radio interviews. This set includes the legendarily 'long lost' Lord Bateman.

The set is lavishly packed and features all new artwork. It comes with a 72 page 11" square hardback book containing over 100 rare and mostly unseen photographs, Sandy's handwritten lyrics (many of which are unrecorded songs) and fascinating memorabilia. Each CD is housed in an individual gatefold digipak sleeve. The box also contains reproductions of: a beautiful original Island press pack, an exceptionally rare A3 promo colour poster for Northstar Grassman and the Ravens, a set of Postcards, the receipt for the purchase of her first piano and one of Sandy's handwritten notebooks.

[tracklisting]Studio Recordings
CD Album Song

1 Alex Campbell and His Friends The False Bride
1 You Never Wanted Me
1 This Train

1 Sandy and Johnny Milk and Honey
1 The Last Thing On My Mind
1 3.10 to Yuma
1 Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor
1 Pretty Polly
1 Been On The Road So Long
1 My Ramblin’ Boy

1 It's Sandy Denny 3.10 to Yuma (re-recorded version)
1 Pretty Polly(re-recorded version)
1 Milk and Honey (re-recorded version)
1 The Last Thing On My Mind (re-recorded version)
1 Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor (re-recorded version)

2 All Our Own Work Sandy Denny and The Strawbs On My Way
2 Who Knows Where The Time Goes
2 Tell Me What You See In Me
2 Stay Awhile With Me
2 All I Need Is You
2 Sail Away To The Sea
2 And You Need Me

2 Sandy Denny and The Strawbs Nothing Else Will Do (Sandy lead vocal)
2 Who Knows Where The Time Goes (with strings)
2 And You Need Me (with strings)
2 Tell Me What You See In Me (with sitar)
2 Stay Awhile With Me (with strings)
2 Two Weeks Last Summer
2 Water Mother
2 What Will I Do Tomorrow? (Swedish Fly Girls soundtrack)
2 Are The Judges Sane Swedish (Fly Girls soundtrack)
2 I Need You (Swedish Fly Girls soundtrack)

3 What We Did on Our Holidays Fotheringay
3 Mr Lacey
3 Book Song
3 The Lord Is In This Place
3 I’ll Keep It With Mine
3 Eastern Rain
3 Nottamun Town
3 She Moves Through The Fair
3 Meet On The Ledge

3 Unhalfbricking Genesis Hall
3 Si Tu Dois Partir
3 Autopsy
3 A Sailors Life
3 Cajun Woman
3 Who Knows Where The Time Goes
3 Percy’s Song
3 Million Dollar Bash
3 Unreleased Mr Lacey (Sandy lead vocal)
3 Unreleased Autopsy (alternate take)

4 Liege and Lief Come All Ye
4 Reynardine
4 Matty Groves
4 Farewell Farewell
4 The Deserter
4 Tam Lin
4 Crazy Man Michael
4 Unreleased Matty Groves (take 1)

5 Fotheringay Nothing More
5 The Sea
5 Winter Winds
5 Peace In The End
5 The Way I Feel
5 Pond and the Stream
5 Banks of The Nile
5 Two Weeks Last Summer
5 Gypsy Davey (alternate mix)
5 Late November (alternate mix)
5 Two Weeks Last Summer (alternate mix)

6 The North Star Grassman and the Ravens Late November
6 Blackwaterside
6 The Sea Captain
6 Down In The Flood
6 John The Gun
6 Next Time Around
6 The Optimist
6 Lets Jump The Broomstick
6 Wretched Wilbur
6 Northstar Grassman and the Ravens
6 Crazy Lady Blues
6 Late November (El Pea version)
6 Next Time Around (Alternate take without strings)
6 That’ll Be The Day
6 Love’s Made A Fool of You
6 Willie and the Hand Jive
6 WhenWill I Be Loved?
6 Learning The Game

7 Sandy It’ll Take A Long Time
7 Sweet Rosemary
7 For Nobody To Hear
7 Tomorrow Is A Long Time
7 Quiet Joys of Brotherhood
7 Listen, Listen
7 The Lady
7 Bushes and Briars
7 It Suits Me Well
7 The Music Weaver
7 Unreleased Ecoute, Ecoute
7 Unreleased For Nobody To Hear (original version)
7 Unreleased The Music Weaver (alternate version)
7 Here In Silence
7 Man of Iron

8 Like an Old Fashioned Waltz Solo
8 Like An Old Fashioned Waltz
8 Whispering Grass
8 Friends
8 Carnival
8 Dark The Night
8 At The End Of The Day
8 Until The Real Thing Comes Along
8 No End
8 Unreleased Solo (alternate take)
8 Unreleased Like An Old Fashioned Waltz (alternate take)
8 At The End of The Day (alternate take)
8 Unreleased No End (alternate take)
8 Unreleased No End (solo piano version)

9 Fairport Live Convention (A Moveable Feast) Matty Groves
9 John The Gun
9 Something you got
9 Down In The Flood
9 That’ll Be The Day (live)

9 Rising For The Moon Rising For The Moon
9 Restless
9 White Dress
9 Stranger to Himself
9 What is True?
9 Dawn
9 After Halloween
9 One More Chance
9 Unreleased White Dress (Alternate version)
9 Unreleased Dawn (Alternate version)
9 Unreleased One More Chance (alternate take)
9 Breakfast in Mayfair

10 Rendezvous I Wish I Was A Fool For You
10 Gold Dust
10 Candle In The Wind
10 Take Me Away
10 One Way Donkey Ride
10 I’m A Dreamer
10 All Our Days
10 Silver Threads And Golden Needles
10 No More Sad Refrains
10 Rare US only track Full Moon
10 Unreleased Still Waters Run Deep (alternate take)

10 Original Gold Dust (lp versions)
10 Unreleased Gold Dust
10 Unreleased All Our Days (alternate take)

11 Gold Dust: Live at the Royalty 98 I Wish I Was A Fool For You
11 Stranger to Himself
11 I’m A Dreamer
11 Take Me Away
11 Nothing More
11 The Sea
11 The Lady
11 Gold Dust
11 Solo
11 John The Gun
11 It’ll Take A Long Time
11 Wretched Wilbur
11 Tomorrow Is A Long Time
11 The Northstar Grassman and the Ravens
11 One More Chance
11 No More Sad Refrains
11 Who Knows Where The Time Goes

Bonus Tracks
CD Original Release Song

1 Unreleased Who Knows Where The Time Goes 1st version
1 Unreleased Blues Run The Game
1 Milk and Honey
1 Soho
1 It Ain’t Me Babe
1 East Virginia
1 Geordie
1 Unreleased In Memory (The Tender Years)
1 Unreleased Setting of the sun
1 Boxful of Treasures
1 They Don’t Seem to Know You
1 Gerrard Street
1 Fotheringay
1 Carnival
1 She Moves Through The Fair
1 The Time Has Come
1 Seven Virgins
1 A Little Bit Of Rain
1 Go Your Own Way My Love
1 Cradle Song
1 Blue Tattoo
1 The Quiet Land of Erin
1 I Love My True Love
1 Let No Man Steal Your Thyme
1 Unreleased ‘Methusela’

Solo/Fairport Convention
2 Unreleased Who Knows Where The Time Goes
2 Unreleased Motherless Children
2 Unreleased Milk and Honey (Cellarful of Folk 21/3/67)
2 New version of BBC Session track Been on the road so long (My Kind of Folk 26/6/68)
2 Autopsy (demo)
2 Now and Then (demo)
2 Unreleased Fotheringay (Acoustic version)
2 Unreleased She Moved Through the fair (Acoustic version)
2 Unreleased ft Richard Thompson Mr Lacey (live BBC)
2 Throwaway Street Puzzle
2 Ballad of Easy Rider
2 Dear Landlord
2 A Sailors Life
2 Sir Patrick Spens (studio version)
2 Quiet Joys of Brotherhood (take 1)
2 Quiet Joys of Brotherhood (take 4)

3 Fotheringay/Northstar
3 Unreleased The Sea [Studio demo]
3 Unreleased Winter Winds [studio demo]
3 Unreleased The Pond and the stream [studio demo]
3 Unreleased The Way I Feel [original version]
3 Unreleased Banks of the Nile [alternate take]
3 Unreleased Winter Winds [alternate take]
3 Silver Threads and Golden Needles (outtake)
3 Unreleased The Sea (live Holland Festival, Rotterdam 1970)
3 Two Weeks Last Summer (live Holland Festival, Rotterdam 1970)
3 Nothing More (live Holland Festival, Rotterdam 1970)
3 Banks of the Nile (live Holland Festival, Rotterdam 1970)
3 Memphis Tennessee (live Holland Festival, Rotterdam 1970)
3 Unreleased Trouble In Mind (live Holland Festival, Rotterdam 1970)
3 Unreleased Bruton Town (band rehersal)

The Northstar Grassman and the Ravens
4 Unreleased Blackwaterside [demo]
4 Unreleased The Sea Captain [demo]
4 Unreleased Next Time around [demo]
4 Unreleased The Optimist [demo]
4 Unreleased Wretched Wilbur [demo]
4 Unreleased Crazy Lady Blues [demo]
4 Unreleased Lord Bateman [demo]
4 Unreleased Walking The Floor Over You [duet with Richard Thompson]
4 Attic Tracks Losing Game
4 Unreleased Northstar Grassman and the Ravens (BBC One in Ten audio)
4 Unreleased Crazy Lady Blues(BBC One in Ten audio)
4 Unreleased Late November(BBC One in Ten audio)
4 If You Saw Thru My Eyes (duet with Ian Matthews)
4 Northstar Grassman and the Ravens
4 Unreleased 12th of Never
4 Sweet Rosemary (Manor demo 2)
4 The Lady (Manor demo)
4 After Halloween (Manor demo)
5 Sandy/Like an Old Fashioned Waltz
5 Unreleased It’ll take a long time [demo]
5 Sweet Rosemary (demo)
5 Unreleased For Nobody To Hear [demo]
5 Unreleased Tomorrow is a long time [demo]
5 Unreleased Quiet Joys [demo]
5 Unreleased Listen, Listen (demo)
5 Unreleased The Lady (demo)
5 Unreleased Bushes and Briars [demo]
5 Unreleased It Suits Me Well [demo]
5 The Music Weaver (demo)
5 Unreleased No End [piano version]
5 Unreleased Whispering Grass [studio demo]
5 Unreleased Friends [studio demo]
5 Unreleased Dark the night [studio demo]
5 Unreleased At The End of The Day [studio demo]
5 Unreleased Until the real thing comes along [studio demo]
5 Walking The Floor Over You [2nd version 1973]
Fairport Live at the LA Troubadour 1974 All tracks details tbc
6 Unreleased Something You Got
6 Unreleased Blackwaterside (live 1975)
6 Unreleased No More Sad Refrains (live Marc Time 1975)
6 Unreleased Interview 1974 BBC Manchester Piccadilly radio
6 Unreleased Interview BBC radio, John Peel Sounds on Sunday 06/01/74

Rising/Rendezvous For The Moon
7 Unreleased What is True [studio demo]
7 Unreleased By The Time It Gets Dark [acoustic studio demo]
7 Unreleased One way donkey ride [acoustic version]
7 Losing Game
7 Unreleased Easy To Slip
7 By The Time It Gets Dark (studio demo)
7 Unreleased I’m A Dreamer [without strings or backing vocals]
7 Unreleased All Our Days (Choral version)
7 By The Time It Gets Dark (studio take full band)
7 Unreleased Candle in the wind (piano version)
7 Unreleased Moments
7 Unreleased Moments [Acoustic version] actual final recording

The Byfield Studio demos 74-77
8 King And Queen of England (demo)
8 Unreleased Rising For The Moon (demo)
8 One More Chance (demo)
8 Unreleased King And Queen of England (take 1 demo)
8 Unreleased After Halloween (demo 74)
8 What Is True (demo)
8 Stranger To Himself (demo)
8 Take Away The Load (demo)
8 By The Time It Gets Dark (demo)
8 I’m A Dreamer (demo)
8 Full Moon (demo)
8 Take Me Away (demo)
8 All Our Days (demo)
8 No More Sad Refrains (demo)
8 Still Waters Run Deep (demo)
8 One Way Donkey Ride (demo)
8 Unreleased I’m A Dreamer (better demo)
8 Unreleased Full Moon (demo 2, incomplete)
8 Unreleased Makes Me Think Of You (demo)


It’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. Sandy had not sounded as cutting edge since her early days in Fairport Convention.

Listen, Listen (demo)
One of the earliest songs written for ‘Sandy’ this demo recorded at Manor studios in Oxfordshire is a great opportunity to hear this well known song in an alternative version, here based around a piano melody, which would be switched to acoustic guitar on the final version.

Bushes and Briars [demo]
A haunting acoustic performance to rival the issued acoustic BBC version, but here sung with a lovely vocalise across the middle eight.

Whispering Grass [demo]
An excellent rehearsal of the Fats Waller song that outclasses the album version in performance and style; even without the Whispering Brass this performance has a more period feel to it than the finished one, and a superior vocal.

One Way Donkey Ride [acoustic version]
Cut in a single take this is simply one of Sandy’s best songs and performances.

Wretched Wilbur [demo]
One of Sandy’s cryptogram songs, originally entitled ‘Seeds of Honesty’ this acoustic demo is the definitive performance of this unusual song allegedly, and was found on a reel of demos for the Northstar Grassman album.[/tracklisting]

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Great googly moogly!

£149.99 - hopefully the price comes down somewhat.

This is even bigger news than the Elvis box.

That's awesome, but I can't afford it. What a cool package, though. If I was wealthy, I would definitely take it home with me!

i had no idea that sandy denny had 19 CD's worth of material.

and you think you know music, eh?

BNL said it best..........If I Had $1,000,000

I already have a ton of her stuff (solo albums, Fairport, the Strawbs collab, and the 5-CD box on the Fledg'ling label); this would be overkill.

This seems very cool, but I wonder if each of the original albums will have the liner notes and lyrics that came in the solo Sandy (and Fairport also) reissues of a few years back. A 72-page book doesn't seem like very much to cover 19 CDs! I bought the SHM-CDs mini-LPs of Sandy's solo work from Japan and they were packaged very nicely, including the English booklets.

That alone should earn you a huge discount on the box!!

The release date is now November 22nd.

There is an official release site here:

http://www.sandydenny.org.uk/

There is also a video of what is included in the box:



I still can't figure out whether the individual albums have booklets with notes/lyrics or not!

That looks reeeeeeeeeeeeeally nice. Damn it all. I think I might need this.

My copy arrived today and the 72 page hardcover book is printed upside down.
This means that if you hold it with the cover facing you (like a normal book) and open it the pages are upside down and backwards. I have to flip the book over to read it properly.
A minor error but still.....

There are some other packaging problems as well. According to the reviews on Amazon UK, the plastic tray that holds everything on the inside can break apart easily, and it fills the box with black dust that gets on everything. Others complain about the CD digipak construction. Hadn't heard about the book being printed upside down. I haven't bought this yet, as I've got 99% of the regular stuff. If you just consider the last 8 CD's of unreleased stuff, the price comes out to about $25 per disc (ordering from Am UK). Hmmm...