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Sandy Denny: Dark the Night

Sandy Denny: Dark the Night (Nixed NIX-006) Dark the Night (Bootleg)
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Nixed NIX-006 (CD, UK, 1996)		 Sandy Denny: Dark the Night (Nixed NIX-006)

This bootleg CD presents rare home demos of Sandy Denny and some BBC radio broadcasts. The sleeve notes state “Apologies for the quality of tracks 18-24, these are the best versions of these exceedingly rare radio broadcasts that we have found available.”

Tracks:

BBC World Service “Cellar Full of Folk”, host Alex Campbell, rec. 2 December 1966, bc. 11 January 1967

Both tracks were copied from the cassette The Attic Tracks Vol. 3:

  1. Green Grow the Laurels (Roud 279) (4.00)
  2. Fhír a Bhata (The Boatman) (Roud 4356) (4.58)

Home demos, recorded in 1966

The demos were copied from the cassette The Attic Tracks Vol. 3, too:

  1. Blues Run the Game (3.25)
  2. Milk and Honey (3.38)
  3. Soho (3.10)
  4. In Memory (Tender Years) (2.28)
  5. It Ain't Me Babe (3.37)
  6. East Virginia (Roud 3396) (3.22)
  7. My Dear Geordie (Roud 90; Child 209) (3.21)

BBC Radio “Sounds of the Seventies”, host Bob Harris, rec. 14 November 1973, bc. 17 December 1973

With Hughie Burns, guitar, Pat Donaldson, bass, and Willie Murray, drums.
You can find these four tracks in much better quality on the CD The BBC Sessions 1971-73:

  1. Until the Real Thing Comes Along (3.58)
  2. Whispering Grass (3.38)
  3. Dark the Night (3.59)
  4. Solo (4.22)

BBC Radio “Sounds of the Seventies”, host Bob Harris, rec. 25 October 1972, bc. 20 November 1972

You can find these four tracks in much better quality on the CD The BBC Sessions 1971-73:

  1. It Suits Me Well (4.17)
  2. The Music Weaver (3.05)
  3. Bushes and Briars (2.31)
  4. It'll Take a Long Time (3.54)

Pass of Arms film soundtrack, 1972

You can find these two tracks in much better quality on the 2 CD anthology No More Sad Refrains or on the 2005 CD reissue of Sandy:

  1. Man of Iron (7.30)
  2. Here in Silence (3.31)

Tracks 1-2, 8-9 trad.
Tracks 3-4 Jackson C. Frank
Track 5 Bert Jansch
Track 6 unknown
Track 7 Bob Dylan
Track 10 S. Cahn, S. Chaplin, L.E. Freeman
Track 11 D. & F. Fisher
Tracks 12-17 Sandy Denny
Tracks 18-19 P.Elford, M. Fraser