Sandy Denny News and Photos

Gabrielle Aplin interview: 'I don't even know if I can sing'

Mon, May 13 2013 7:01am - Source: Telegraph - London - UK [Music]

With her fresh-faced, wide-eyed beauty, Gabrielle Aplin looks younger than her 20 years.

Listen to Joanna Newsom’s cover of Sandy Denny’s “The North Star Grassman and the Ravens”

Thu, March 14 2013 4:47pm - Source: Consequence of Sound

When Joanna Newsom isn't laughing it up with funny-man fiancé Andy Samberg , she's doing what she does best: being an accomplished musician.

Hidden treasures: Bobbie Gentry – The Delta Sweete

Tue, January 15 2013 12:47pm - Source: The Guardian Music Blog

Can a song be so perfect, so successful, that it eclipses its creator?

From Adele to One Direction: How breaking America went from pipedream to reality for UK acts

Fri, January 11 2013 8:31pm - Source: The Independent - Music

In March 2012, the top spots in the Billboard album chart were taken by Adele's 21, former Floetry singer Marsha Ambrosius for her Late Nights & Early Mornings, and Mumford & Sons' debut album Sigh No More. It was the first time UK artists had held all three top spots since 1987, when Dire Straits, Sting and Tears For Fears managed the feat.

Live Review: Beth Orton at London’s Union Chapel (12/5)

Fri, December 07 2012 8:18am - Source: Consequence of Sound

As impressive aurally and visually as it is, the Union Chapel can still be a daunting stage even for a seasoned performer.

Graded on a Curve: Penelope Houston, Birdboys

Thu, November 29 2012 2:37pm - Source: The Vinyl District

San Francisco's The Avengers were one of the USA's great punk bands.

Win: Sandy Denny Collection

Tue, October 30 2012 6:39pm - Source: ClashMusic.com

More than 30 years after her untimely death, Sandy Denny remains a powerful figure in British music.

Smoke Fairies - Live At The Portland Arms, Cambridge

Tue, October 09 2012 4:52pm - Source: ClashMusic.com

"Are we living in a zombie nation?" laments a burned-out, dreadlocked stoner, barely able to see straight, but clearly anxious about the lack of dancing part-way through tonight's gig.

The 405 meets Mary Epworth

Tue, August 07 2012 12:18pm - Source: The Four Oh Five

Ruth Barnes presents The Other Woman on Amazing Radio every Sunday evening 7-9pm - a new music playlist made up entirely of female artists and female fronted bands.

Bob Moses: Mapping the Inner Banks: Interview, Video, and Track

Tue, July 03 2012 8:01pm - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

If you could conjure a future past, a time both technologically advanced and bucolic, would passionate data shepherds still prove digitally-rendered pleasures of valleys, groves, hills and fields while gamboling on beds of roses?

Shorties (Aimee Mann on Buying Music, Novellas for Summer Reading, and more)

Tue, June 19 2012 2:27pm - Source: Largehearted Boy

On a personal level, I have witnessed the impoverishment of many critically acclaimed but marginally commercial artists.

Nell Bryden - Shake the Tree

Thu, June 07 2012 4:14pm - Source: BBC Music

She was born in Brooklyn but lives in the UK, which is just as well for Nell Bryden as the singer is currently a darling of Radio 2, whose DJs and programmers have fallen for her moody yet tuneful second album Shake the Tree. And while such a seal of approval might suggest that Bryden is in the same league as Katie Melua or Duffy , she possesses a lot more depth than those artists have so far appeared capable of mining.

Faber Launch eBook Series

Thu, June 07 2012 4:06pm - Source: The Quietus

As any fans of Faber's brilliant music books by the likes of Simon Reynolds, Dorian Lynskey, Jon Savage, Richard King and so on well knows, they're pretty enormous doorstep-type tomes, pages of excellent writing bound together into a series you could build a shelter from for when the balloon goes up.

Two Wings - Love's Spring

Thu, May 10 2012 12:08pm - Source: The Quietus

One of the most quietly interesting developments in music over the last decade has been the way in which the worlds of the experimental avant-garde and that of folk music have increasingly overlapped.

Sandy Denny: The Queen of Fairport

Sat, May 05 2012 11:32pm - Source: The Independent - Music

"Where are the graveside vigilants? The colour supplement dissections? The South Bank eulogies...?"

Step inside Julie Murphy's Quiet House

Mon, April 16 2012 1:51pm - Source: The Guardian Music Blog

It's perhaps ironic that one of the finest singers to emerge from Wales in recent years is, in fact, an Essex girl.

BEST SONGS OF 2011

Mon, December 19 2011 7:34am - Source: Said the Gramophone

These are my 100 favourite songs of 2011: songs I love more than plums & peaches & lesser harvests of almonds.

Laura Marling

Wed, December 07 2011 7:33pm - Source: Jonk Music

Laura Marling sings in a clear, expressive voice that swoops birdlike from a dusky croon to a wry sing-speak.

James Vincent McMorrow’s Top 5 New Artists of 2011

Wed, November 30 2011 2:47pm - Source: Nialler 9

Two years ago, I ran a series of guest posts from people involved in Irish music featuring their top 5 Irish acts at that moment. .

Liz Green - O, Devotion!

Wed, November 16 2011 9:16am - Source: Drowned In Sound

The best way of describing Liz Green 's debut record is to imagine excusing yourself from a few Friday night drinks in town with friends, blindly groping your way to the toilet and then somehow taking a wrong turn in place and time - ending up in an eighteenth century tavern and quickly trying to reconcile your clothes, mannerisms and knowledge with a world that appears alien to you, but perfectly comfortable to them.

Thea Gilmore and the words of Sandy Denny - Don’t Stop Singing

Fri, November 11 2011 12:17pm - Source: BBC Music

The Sandy Denny this writer met in 1977 was gossipy and lively, and her tragically premature death the following year robbed the British music scene of a rich and unique voice.

Thea Gilmore: Bringing Sandy Denny back to life

Thu, October 27 2011 7:26am - Source: Telegraph - London - UK [Music]

For a period in the Sixties and Seventies, Denny was among the most lauded artists in British pop music, first with the Strawbs, then with Fairport Convention, followed by Fothingeray with her boyfriend and future husband Trevor Lucas, and finally putting out four solo records.

Thea Gilmore breathes new life into the words of a tragic lost star

Thu, October 13 2011 11:42pm - Source: The Independent - Music

For several decades now, we have grown used to record labels ransacking their vaults for demos and out-takes with which to repackage old albums in expanded editions.

Richard Thompson at Koerner Hall in Toronto

Mon, September 12 2011 12:42pm - Source: Chromewaves

Frank Yang I've been mentally composing my writeup for Richard Thompson's visit to Toronto last week, as I do, and went digging through my archives for past pieces on the artist to perhaps link to as relevant, also standard procedure, which brought this piece I wrote back in 2005.

Judee Sill “Judee Sill”

Wed, August 03 2011 2:19pm - Source: THE RISING STORM

Judee Sill's self-titled debut hit the shelves in 1971, the first release on David Geffen's Asylum Records.

Sara Lowes – Back To Creation

Mon, May 30 2011 11:47am - Source: The Line Of Best Fit

Multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Sara Lowes has been adding lots of colour to musical palettes in the last decade, working with the likes of Micah Hinson, Jim Noir and King Creosote to name but a few.

5-10-15-20: Damon & Naomi

Wed, May 25 2011 4:48pm - Source: Pitchfork Media

My mother, Nancy Harrow, is a jazz singer.

Paul Simon, Robert Plant, Dengue Fever + Ghazal -- Around the World in Five Days

Tue, April 26 2011 7:02pm - Source: Spinner

"It" being a trip that went from California to Cambodia, from Soweto to New York, from Calcutta to Tehran, from Timbuktu to the Thames.

Susan Cowsill Brings Rich Textures to Americana

Wed, December 08 2010 1:17pm - Source: The Boot

Susan Cowsill may be the best-kept secret in Americana.

Stream: Unreleased Sandy Denny Material

Tue, November 23 2010 4:34pm - Source: ClashMusic.com

A lavish new Sandy Denny box set has been released, and you can stream a short preview on ClashMusic.

ALBUM REVIEW: SANDY DENNY - SANDY DENNY

Fri, November 19 2010 4:20pm - Source: Uncut.co.uk

Like the dimensions of the world's tallest skyscraper or the coordinates of a military invasion, to comprehend the sheer scale of this undertaking requires recourse to facts and figures.

Sandy Denny Box Set Details

Wed, November 03 2010 2:16pm - Source: ClashMusic.com

More details of the forthcoming Sandy Denny box set have been confirmed, including unreleased tracks.

Halloween music - Scary monsters and super creeps

Fri, October 29 2010 11:07am - Source: The Independent - Music

For Halloween, supermarkets are bathed in the glow of oversized pumpkins and stacks of ghoulish merchandise fills the shelves.

Heidi Talbot – The Last Star

Thu, October 21 2010 11:18am - Source: The Line Of Best Fit

The first track, 'Willie Taylor' features Phil Cunningham on Accordion, and contains most of the essential elements of traditional folk song – including an unfaithful boy called Willie.

Belle And Sebastian - Write About Love

Tue, October 12 2010 7:35am - Source: Drowned In Sound

At some edition or other of the Leeds Festival, I confidently told a friend that I felt Belle & Sebastian were a better band than The Beach Boys, something he reacted to with a mix of horror and pity.