Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (Sandy Denny album)
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Released | 1985 | |||
Recorded | 1967 – 1977 | |||
Genre | folk rock | |||
Length | 182:55 | |||
Label | UK: Island | |||
Producer | Trevor Lucas & Joe Boyd | |||
Sandy Denny chronology | ||||
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Who Knows Where the Time Goes? is a retrospective compilation of the work of English folk rock singer Sandy Denny issued in 1985. It is a four-LP boxed set released on the Island Records label in the UK and Germany and on Hannibal/Carthage Records in the US, later reissued as a three-CD set. It includes released and previously unreleased recordings from 1967 to 1977, live performances, outtakes and demos from Denny's solo career, and with Fairport Convention, Fotheringay and Strawbs.
The set included a twenty-page booklet featuring many photographs of Denny, her family, and friends, as well as lyrics of most of the songs, and instrumental credits.
Reception
[edit]AllMusic praised the album, describing it as "[a] magnificently produced ... complete portrait of Sandy Denny", Denny herself as "the haunting singer, the melodic, mournful songwriter", and summed up the collection as "[t]he album makes the case for Denny as a major folk artist."[5]
Rolling Stone magazine's David Fricke described the set as "worthy of her largely unrecognized talent... (and) has captured her finest hours for all time"[6]
Track listing
[edit]All songs are credited to Sandy Denny except where noted.
Side one
[edit]- "The Lady" – 5:08 – recorded live in London(during what would end up being Sandy's last concert), 1977
- "Listen, Listen" – 3:57 – from Sandy
- "Next Time Around" – 4:23 – from The North Star Grassman and the Ravens
- "Farewell, Farewell" (Richard Thompson) – 2:38 – from Liege and Lief (Fairport Convention)
- "The Music Weaver" - 3:04 - demo recorded 1972
- "Tomorrow is a Long Time" (Bob Dylan) – 3:56 – from Sandy
Side two
[edit]- "The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood" (words: Richard Fariña) – 5:58 – unreleased track by Fairport Convention
- "The Pond and the Stream" – 3:16 – from Fotheringay
- "One Way Donkey Ride" – 3:34 – from Rendezvous
- "Take Away the Load (Sandy's Song)" – 1:36 – demo recorded 1976
- "One More Chance" – 7:52 – from Rising for the Moon (Fairport Convention)
Side three
[edit]- "Bruton Town" – 4:47 – BBC recording 1972
- "Blackwaterside" – 4:15 – from The North Star Grassman and the Ravens
- "Tam Lin" – 7:10 – from Liege and Lief (Fairport Convention)
- "The Banks of the Nile" – 8:06 – from Fotheringay
Side four
[edit]- "Sail Away to the Sea" (Dave Cousins) – 3:25 – from All Our Own Work (Sandy and The Strawbs)
- "You Never Wanted Me" (Jackson C. Frank) – 3:08 – BBC recording 1968 (Fairport Convention)
- "Sweet Rosemary" – 2:40 – demo recorded 1972
- "Now And Then" - 3:45 - demo recorded 1968
- "Autopsy" – 4:19 – from Unhalfbricking (Fairport Convention)
- "It'll Take a Long Time" – 5:14 – from Sandy
Side five
[edit]- "Two Weeks Last Summer" (Dave Cousins) – 3:50 – unreleased track by Fotheringay
- "Late November" – 4:31 – from the Island sampler El Pea (Fotheringay)[7]
- "Gypsy Davey" (Traditional) – 3:53 – unreleased track by Fotheringay, 1970
- "Winter Winds" – 2:10 – from Fotheringay
- "Nothing More" – 4:56 – recorded live in Rotterdam, 1970 (Fotheringay)
- "Memphis, Tennessee" (Chuck Berry) – 4:00 – recorded live in Rotterdam, 1970 (Fotheringay)
Side six
[edit]- "Walking the Floor Over You" – 4:17 – unreleased track 1971/73
- "When Will I Be Loved?" (Don and Phil Everly) – 3:10 – from The Bunch (duet w/ Linda Thompson)
- "Whispering Grass" (Doris Fisher and Fred Fisher) – 3:56 – from Like an Old Fashioned Waltz
- "Friends" - 3:31 - from Like an Old Fashioned Waltz
- "Solo" – 5:01 – recorded live in Los Angeles, 1974 (Fairport Convention)
- "After Halloween" – 2:57 – unreleased track, 1972
Side seven
[edit]- "For Shame of Doing Wrong" (Richard Thompson) – 3:42 – from Rendezvous
- "Stranger to Himself" – 2:50 – from Rising for the Moon (Fairport Convention)
- "I'm a Dreamer" – 4:43 – from Rendezvous
- "John the Gun" – 5:11 – from Fairport Live Convention (A Moveable Feast)
- "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (Bob Dylan) – 4:30 – recorded live in Los Angeles, 1974 (Fairport Convention)
Side eight
[edit]- "By the Time it Gets Dark" – 3:20 – demo recorded 1974
- "What is True?" – 3:44 – demo recorded 1973
- "The Sea" – 5:25 – from Fotheringay
- "Full Moon" – 4:30 – unreleased track, 1976
- "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" – 6:37 – recorded live Los Angeles, 1974 (Fairport Convention)
CD release
[edit]The tracks on the 1991 CD release were in the same order as on the original vinyl discs:
- Disc one : Sides one & two and tracks one and two of Side three,
- Disc two : tracks three and four of Side three, Sides four and five, and track one of Side six
- Disc three : the rest
4CDs release
[edit]- Disc one : Same as CD release
- Disc two : Same as CD release
- Disc three : Same as CD release
- Disc four
- "It'll Take A Long Time" - 05:43 – live 1 February 1974 at Los Angeles (Fairport Convention)
- "John The Gun" - 05:39 – live 1 February 1974 at Los Angeles (Fairport Convention)
- "She Moves Through The Fair (Trad. / Words by Padraic Colum)" - 03:27 – live 1 February 1974 at Los Angeles (Fairport Convention)
- "Autopsy" - 04:25 – demo recorded 30 December 1968
- "Take Me Away" - 03:57 – home demo recorded 1977
- "One Way Donkey Ride" - 04:11 – home demo recorded 1977
- "Still Waters Run Deep" - 03:57 – home demo recorded 1977
- "By The Time It Gets Dark" - 03:30 – alternate demo recorded 1977
- "By The Time It Gets Dark" - 03:38 – run through recorded 1977
- "By The Time It Gets Dark" - 04:06 – alternate take recorded 1977
- "All Our Days" - 03:37 – home demo recorded 1977
- "Full Moon" - 04:28 – home demo recorded 1977
- "Losing Game (James Carr & Denny Weaver)" - 03:14 – alternate take recorded 4 April and 18 June 1977 (duet /w Jess Roden)
- "Silver Threads And Golden Needles (Dick Reynolds & Jack Rhodes)" - 04:29 – unreleased take by Fotheringay
- "Moments (Bryn Haworth)" - 03:43 – the last recording of Sandy Denny recorded 20 May 1977
- "No More Sad Refrains" - 03:05 – home demo recorded 1977
Issue history
[edit]1985: (UK) 4 LPs - Island SDSP 100
1986: (US) 4 LPs - Hannibal 100/CD - Hannibal HAN5301
1991: LP/CD - Hannibal 5301
1991: CS - Hannibal HNBC-5301
2009: 4CDs – Universal Japan UICY94090
References
[edit]- ^ Ruhlmann, William (2011). "Who Knows Where the Time Goes [Box Set] - Sandy Denny | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
- ^ March 27, 1986 David Fricke Rolling Stone review[dead link]
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
- ^ Q, May 2007, Issue 250.
- ^ "Who Knows Where the Time Goes - Box Set". Retrieved 5 June 2008.
- ^ "Who Knows Where The Time Goes". 27 March 1986. Retrieved 5 June 2008.[dead link]
- ^ this is actually incorrect; the track was an alternate version, but different from the El Pea version.[1]
- Most information taken from the original booklet
- Allmusic
- Sandy Denny: Who Knows Where the Time Goes?