Fotheringay-Fotheringay

This 1970 album was made by Sandy Denny after she left Fairport Convention and future husband Trevor Lucas. Also in the band were Gerry Conway and Jerry Donahue who later joined Fairport Convention and bass player Pat Donaldson. Side one has four songs by Denny and one by Lucas all good Folk songs. Side two is the one I always listened to. Starting off with a great cover of Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Way I Feel”,another Denny original then a cover of Dylan’s “Too Much Of Nothing”,a song I frst heard on The Best of Peter,Paul,and Mary,the first record I ever bought.The last song on the record is the best,an 8 minute rendering of the Traditional song “Banks Of The Nile”.On it Denny shows of her wonderful voice backed by some laid back instrumentation. It’s a common theme of a man joining the Navy to fight a war and his lover wanting to cut off her hair and pose as a man to join him. This is the only album by them as the group broke up while recording a second record.Some of those tracks ended up on Sandy Denny’s first solo record.Her death in 1978 put an end to one of the great voices in the British Folk Rock scene. I bought this record sometime in the 80’s. I don’t remember if it was new or used.There are several skips on both sides but I will keep this,It’s one I don’t have a digital copy of,and I have never seen one in a record store.

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