Yes it's a fine album but it sold bugger all.... I think only LIKE AN OLD FASHIONED WALTZ sold a decent amount of units.... SANDY is a truly beautiful album too and I loved the artwork in the gatefold.
Was enjoying this until the dismissal of my favourite album of all time by any artist, 'The Northstar Grassman and the Ravens'. This is, in my my ears and mind the most beautiful and captivating example of Sandy Denny and I am horrified by the nonchalant way that those two blokes who seem to make up most of this documentary just skirt over it in favour of her commercial efforts that fail on most levels.
I loved North Star Grassman and the Ravens from the first time I heard it and still do. Blackwaterside is one of the best songs I know. I guess I like her introspective and slightly strange lyrics-they're evocative of somethng mystical and from deep in the subconcious. "Sandy" of course is excellent, but less idiosyncratic and personal.
Really great. Look forward to the last bit. It's a shame Jerry Donohue, Richard and Linda Thompson, and, of course, Joe Boyd couldn't be a part of this.
I'm guessing that Sandy was a big influence on Emmylou Harris, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, June Tabor, Lucinda Williams, Heidi Berry, and Beth Orton. Amongst others, of course.
I think she did want a solo career..sounds like the rest of them couldn't accept her havingness!! No wonder her reluctance! And him saying "oh she just wanted to stay in a little band"....BS
I discovered sandy in 1973 in a record shop, I was 17 and she was to me, from a female perspective, totally, amazingly phenomenal lyrically musically and in the co-production on her solo albums she was superb. I enjoy hearing these technical & social interpersonal explanations TrebleClef and also about the sort of company issues and difficulties of late night Bar/Drinking concert venues and folk musicians surviving it. I Love her then and Love her now, from the first time I ever heard her sing.
@@thizabeth same! Except I was 19. I do wonder whether part of why she is so forgotten and overlooked is that she communicates the female experience so perfectly and in a way that men also love. Can't have that under patriarchy!
I don't know what the chap at 16:41 is talking about regarding this 'cracked element' business; there is absolutely no 'cracked element' on 'Solo', and as far as I can make out, Sandy's voice was still very fine, at least on this recording.
Who's the slim guy sitting on a chair in his study? Does he even like her stuff? 'The Strawbs can be discarded... Fairport weren't really where she wanted to be... Fotheringay were pretty weak... I mean I suppose you could say it's her best solo effort... blah blah blah...' lol. Shouldn't they be choosing fans for these documentaries? I think the thing to understand about Sandy Denny, and why she couldn't quite fit into the Joni Mitchell-style solo mould they had planned out for her, is that she was a tomboy at heart, which made her very appealing, but it meant she was most comfortable playing in a band with other musicians who were her friends, rather than having the huge ego required to be just 'SANDY'.
@@baronsaturday9529 he basically did what was called "cherry picking' where a manager sees more potential in one given member of an act and begins pressuring the individual to leave the band for a solo career managed by them. He certainly not the only manager or producer to do this, but I particularly love these two bands/artists. Thank god the production of Floyd was given over in house to EMI and he dropped them.
