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Sandy Denny - Borrowed Thyme (1968)

Track listing:
  1. Setting Of The Sun 2:34
  2. Box Full Of Tresures 1:41
  3. They Don't Seem To Know You 2:22
  4. Gerrard Street 1:48
  5. Fotheringay 1:58
  6. She Moves Through The Fair 4:03
  7. The Time Has Come 4:01
  8. Seven Virgins 2:58
  9. Little Bit Of Rain 2:30
  10. Go Your Way My Love 4:09
  11. Cradle Song 2:27
  12. Blue Tattoo 2:57
  13. The Quiet Land Of Erin 3:19
  14. I Love My True Love 2:24
  15. Let No Man Steal Your Thyme 2:23
  16. Carnival 3:15
  17. Who Knows Where The Time Goes 3:30
  18. This Train 2:39
  19. Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor 2:32
  20. Last Thing On My Mind 3:27
  21. You Never Wanted Me 3:13
  22. Hold On To Me Babe 3:06
  23. Blues Run The Game 2:48
  24. Been On The Road So Long 2:37
  25. Motherless Children 2:31

Notes

Según se indica en este Cd. ninguna de estas canciones o versiones están includias en Cd. pirata Dark The Night
1 a 17 - Demos 1966-1968 (Johnny Silvo, Alex Campbell y Strawbs aparecen en alguno de estos temas, pero no están identificados)
18 a 21 - Con Jonny Silvo Four, grabadas de la BBC Radio, 1968
22 y 23 - Del programa de la BBC Radio, Cellarfull Of Folk, 6-3-67
24 - Del programa My Kind Of Folk, de la BBC Radio, 25-6-68

Demo tapes, BBC shows and other pre-Fairport rarities, including a few tunes performed with the Johnny Silvo Four. Of note are inchoate versions of several Denny originals, as well as covers of songs by Jackson Frank, Fred Neil and Anne Briggs, as well as a version of Tom Paxton's "Last Thing On My Mind." which is one of several straight American-style folk tunes off the Johnny Silvo LP. For all its mysterious provenance, this bootleg CD, issued by the same folks who put out the Dark The Night CD (above), has pretty good sound quality: what deficiencies exist seem to be from the source material itself. Hardcore fans should be pleased

Denny did not record all that much during her career. She is not exactly a catalog megaseller, despite her fervid cult status. And there was already much notable unreleased Denny material bootlegged on the well-packaged Dark the Night CD and various other Fairport Convention, Fotheringay, and solo Denny bootlegs before the 2001 appearance of this disc, which despite the lack of a label name is very professional looking. All this taken into consideration, it's astounding that these 24 tracks — none of which appear on Dark the Night — are a substantial and worthy addition to the collection of the serious Denny fan. All of the material dates from her early career in 1966-1968, the first 17 of the 24 songs culled from 1966-1968 solo demos, in which she's accompanied only by guitar. Many of these songs (including half a dozen which bear the writing credit "unknown") never appeared on any of her official recordings, and there are early versions of some of her standout original compositions ("Fotheringay," "Who Knows Where the Time Goes"), traditional folk tunes like "She Moves Through the Fair" and "Let No Man Steal Your Thyme," and a cover of Fred Neil's great "Little Bit of Rain." The singing is always good and sometimes magnificent, even if the execution is sometimes more tentative than what would have been allowed on a final studio master. The final seven songs, taken from 1967-1968 BBC sessions (four of them as a singer with the Johnny Silvo Four, the rest solo), suffer from notably substandard fidelity, but nonetheless are good performances, including covers of tunes by songwriters like Tom Paxton and Jackson Frank, as well as traditional folk numbers. If the sound quality of the demos were better, this album would rate higher; some of those demos boast virtually perfect fidelity, others are tainted by a bit of varispeed wobble or slight distortion. Still, for the most part it's wonderfully haunting, sad British folk, filling out our picture of the early work of one of the greatest British folk and folk-rock singers.