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Original material © 2007-2016 Philip Ward. All Rights Reserved.
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Celebrating the pre-eminent singer, and one of the greatest songwriters, of the British folk-rock movement
New e-book
The official site
Topics
- A short tale about a long tail
- Across The Purple Sky
- Arctic City
- Authorised biography
- Book now published
- Byfield
- Calling New Yorkers!
- Daylilies
- Errors and omissions excepted
- Events in 2012
- Events in 2015
- Events in 2016
- Fotheringay 2
- Fotheringay Essen 1970
- Fotheringay remembered
- Heylin is not great
- Mystery song
- New Fotheringay DVD
- New book!
- New box set
- Please take it off!
- Publicity
- Review of the year 2008
- South Bank Centre tribute
- The Lady at the Barbican
- The Notes and the Words
- The return of Shelagh McDonald
- Troubadour anniversary tribute
About this blog
A blog celebrating Sandy Denny (1947-1978), the pre-eminent singer, and one of the greatest songwriters, of the British folk-rock movement.
The Internet can reconnect us all. In 1813 Thomas Jefferson offered a manifesto of Enlightenment which should still give heart to Web authors everywhere:
'That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe for the moral and mutual instruction of man and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature when she made them like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.'
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About Me
- Philip Ward
- I am a writer, translator and occasional composer, based in Cambridge, England, with particular interests in music, literature and theatre. Please visit my Amazon page to find out more.
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3 comments:
What do you think about the book and fotheringay relese
This may not be the best place to ask, but I was listening to Sandy sing the Quiet Joys of Brotherhood from No More Sad Refrains: The Anthology taken from the album Sandy. I'm curious if Sandy overdubbed the vocals where we hear two voices, or if Linda Thompson (credited Peters) is singing backup? I suppose it's rude to ask if folk singers overdub. Sorry.
Thanks for your comment, Strangerland. Sandy multiply overdubbed her own vocals on that track - no other singer involved. She said later that the arrangement was inspired by the Ensemble of the Bulgarian Republic, whose recordings were very popular in the Sixties (see John Martyn, Paul Simon et al). I don't think she was at all precious about overdubbing; her recording techniques probably owed more to rock than to folk purists. P
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