Sandy Denny -Acoustic CD

[Paul B]

Whether it's worth buying for 3 "unreleased demos" only the unreconstructed completists amongst us can answer.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01B5GM1YA?keywords=sandy%20denny%20acoustic&qid=1454520331&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

[Jules Gray]

F*** me!  That 17-disc complete recordings box set gets less and less complete every ******* month!  

Jules

[dooovall [Daniel]]

F*** me!  That 17-disc complete recordings box set gets less and less complete every ******* month!  

Jules

I enjoy living in a world where previously unreleased Sandy Denny material continues to trickle out as it is found.  

Sandy's lyrics reveal that she is a world-class poet (a high compliment in my reality tunnel), and as Stephen King observed in his novella The Breathing Method (a nearly-flawless piece of short fiction), "Poems are not like novels or legal opinions; they are more like blown leaves, and any omnibus volume titled The-Complete-So-and-So must certainly be a lie.  Poems have a way of getting lost under sofas -- it is one of their charms, and one of the reasons they endure."  

If more Sandy Denny recordings find their way out of hiding in the future, I'll consider that reason to celebrate even though I bought the "complete" box set.  

EDIT: Just noticed that the forthcoming 3 demos are cover versions of songs written by other people -- but think of the timbre of Sandy's voice itself as a sort of "poem" to make the analogy above click.  

[quodlibet (Ian)]

A bit more info:

http://sandydenny.org.uk/music/releases/sandy-denny/ive-always-kept-unicorn-acoustic-sandy-denny/536-735-0/

[Alan2]

This is interesting, but as usual I have mixed feelings. Does the world need another Sandy compilation? I like the idea it's all acoustic (a theme), but we aren't getting very much that's new, are we? Having sadi that, i may end up buying it anyway.  

[davidmjs]

This is interesting, but as usual I have mixed feelings. Does the world need another Sandy compilation? I like the idea it's all acoustic (a theme), but we aren't getting very much that's new, are we? Having sadi that, i may end up buying it anyway.  

You're exactly the sort of customer these people are looking for.  There comes a time when you just have to say no more.

[Henry Tompkins (Pete)]

Like you, I'm beyond that point now David.  

[RobertD]

I am too. At best I look to see if the completely new to my ears tracks are available on Itunes to purchase individually. That way I don't feel like I have been soaked.

[Alan2]

This is interesting, but as usual I have mixed feelings. Does the world need another Sandy compilation? I like the idea it's all acoustic (a theme), but we aren't getting very much that's new, are we? Having sadi that, i may end up buying it anyway.  

You're exactly the sort of customer these people are looking for.  There comes a time when you just have to say no more.

You're right David. And it won't be the first time I've bought a compilation by an artist I own everything, or almost everything, by. This year has been a quiet one so far for me, where music buying is concerned. I'm working to anew set of rules- what's essential? Can I wait for this? and so on.

[Jim]

This is interesting, but as usual I have mixed feelings. Does the world need another Sandy compilation? I like the idea it's all acoustic (a theme), but we aren't getting very much that's new, are we? Having sadi that, i may end up buying it anyway.  

You're exactly the sort of customer these people are looking for.  There comes a time when you just have to say no more.

What he said. Its an excercise in piss-taking, plus it'll be probably be on spotify for free soon

[GubGub (Al)]

I do not have everything by Sandy (I don't have the 17 disc box for example) so I am struggling to work out exactly how much of this stuff I already have. Is there anywhere to find out exactly where each track has been released before (other than the big box)?

Conceptually I am not sure about this release. The cover is horrible and the whole package seems to paint Sandy as an acoustic folkie which, I suspect, is the very last thing she would have wanted to be defined as.

[Jules Gray]

I do not have everything by Sandy (I don't have the 17 disc box for example) so I am struggling to work out exactly how much of this stuff I already have. Is there anywhere to find out exactly where each track has been released before (other than the big box)?

I was under the impression that it was all previously released apart from three rehearsal takes from The Bunch sessions.

Jules

[peter m]

I do not have everything by Sandy (I don't have the 17 disc box for example) so I am struggling to work out exactly how much of this stuff I already have. Is there anywhere to find out exactly where each track has been released before (other than the big box)?

I was under the impression that it was all previously released apart from three rehearsal takes from The Bunch sessions.

Jules

I expect all will be revealed but maybe tracks 14-19 on disc 2 have only previously been released on the 17 CD set and not on Notes and the Words or the de luxe version of Rendezvous.

[peter m]

I do not have everything by Sandy (I don't have the 17 disc box for example) so I am struggling to work out exactly how much of this stuff I already have. Is there anywhere to find out exactly where each track has been released before (other than the big box)?

I was under the impression that it was all previously released apart from three rehearsal takes from The Bunch sessions.

Jules

I expect all will be revealed but maybe tracks 14-19 on disc 2 have only previously been released on the 17 CD set and not on Notes and the Words or the de luxe version of Rendezvous.

Update--- mostly wrong. Blackwaterside (track 14 CD2) has only appeared previously on the big box. All the others (except the three Bunch demos) are somewhere else as well ; Notes and Words, de luxe editions, Nothing More.

[billy]

The box set is 19 discs.Soon after this "complete" set came 19 Rupert St and now this.No more for me thankyou very much.

[Jules Gray]

The box set is 19 discs.Soon after this "complete" set came 19 Rupert St and now this.No more for me thankyou very much.

And the deluxe versions of the albums, many with a previously unreleased track or two.  And the Fotheringay box with same.  I was actually glad of that one, but after three box sets and multiple versions of some of the albums it's beginning to feel a bit like Groundhog Day.

I still love her to bits, mind.  None of this is Sandy's fault, or course.

Jules

[Henry Tompkins (Pete)]

In all truth, most of it she'd already discarded or disowned.

[billy]

The box set is 19 discs.Soon after this "complete" set came 19 Rupert St and now this.No more for me thankyou very much.

And the deluxe versions of the albums, many with a previously unreleased track or two.  And the Fotheringay box with same.  I was actually glad of that one, but after three box sets and multiple versions of some of the albums it's beginning to feel a bit like Groundhog Day.

I still love her to bits, mind.  None of this is Sandy's fault, or course.

Jules

The older i get (i'm 62) the more i feel like getting rid of stuff not collecting more ! However i'm usually  unable to resist Sandy  and Bob Dylan.

[David Gladwin]

I have read (admittedly in relation to other artists) that these compilations are aimed at more general buyers, rather than the loyal fans.

Trouble is, they always add a little bit of bait - a few exclusive tracks, however ropey, and maybe some new sleeve notes...  

[Alan2]

The latest e-mailout about this (it came out on Friday) has an interview with Mick Houghton which is quite interesting.