“I met Sandy Denny at the Troubadour in Earl’s Court in late 1966,” Strawbs vocalist, guitarist, and banjoist David Cousins said. “I dropped in late one night to hear an angel singing. Sandy was sitting on a stool, wearing a white dress, a straw hat, and playing a Gibson Hummingbird guitar. When she came off stage, I introduced myself and asked if she fancied joining a group. ‘Who are you?’ she said. ‘Strawbs,’ I replied. ‘OK,’ she said. I went to the pay phone and called Tony Hooper to tell him we had a girl singer.”
Sandy Denny & the Strawbs were booked across the North Sea for a fortnight, with an option to record what would be their only album. The quartet spent days in a makeshift studio set up on the theatrical stage of Vanløse Bio, breaking down the Tandberg three-track reel-to-reel in time for the movie theater’s evening screenings before heading off to their nightly gig. In all, a dozen original songs were set down, including Denny’s recently completed “Who Knows Where The Time Goes.” From the moment Sandy Denny hesitantly delivered her original “Across the purple sky...” lyric, the song took wing toward canonization. But the world would wait another two years before hearing it, on Fairport Convention’s 1969 masterpiece Unhalfbricking. Only after four more subsequent years did the Copenhagen recordings come to light. All Our Own Work hit the marketplace midway through 1973 on budget imprint Hallmark in a cheap sleeve with brief, offhand notes from Cousins and fell out of print by the end of the decade. This 2014 vinyl issue collects the original 12 track album, plus a series of outtakes from the Vanløse Bio sessions previously unavailable on vinyl.
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2xLP
2 150g LP
1 2-pocket gatefold tip-on LP jacket
1 Numero catalog
1 download coupon
Track List
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs On My Way
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs Who Knows Where The Time Goes
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs Tell Me What You See in Me
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs Always On My Mind
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs Stay Awhile With Me
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs Wild Strawberries
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs All I Need Is You Babe
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs How Everyone But Sam Was a Hypocrite
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs Sail Away To The Sea
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs Sweetling
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs Nothing Else Will do Babe (Dave Cousins lead vocal)
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs And You Need Me
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs Two Weeks Last Summer
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs Who Knows Where The Time Goes (with strings)
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs Tell Me What You See in Me (Alternative take)
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs Stay Awhile with Me (with strings)
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs Nothing Else Will do Babe (Sandy Denny lead vocal)
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs And You Need Me (with strings)
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs I've Been My Own Worst Friend
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs Poor Jimmy Wilson
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs Strawberry Picking
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs Pieces of 79 and 15
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs The Falling Leaves
- Sandy Denny & The Strawbs Indian Summer