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Fotheringay - The Sea (1970)

After Sandy Denny left Fairport Convention, she formed Fotheringay. Here's a highlight of their first LP.

Don't you know I am a joker, a deceiver? And I'm waiting for the land.

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[quiet-desperationn]

Roger and the Floyd managed to fill that world with their self-expression, in a way that was almost unique. You couldn't actually say the demanding that you get to build a wall and tear it down every night or flight a gigantic pig over Wembley stadium was cow towing to financial interests, you know. They were very eccentric, they made track that were eight minutes long, they didn't punch out three minutes and ten seconds singles for Radio One. They very much cut their own furrow, they were very independent minded and they made it work! And if Roger needs to feel that it was oppositional, that it was a kind of dialectic of good and evil in which he was good and they were evil and from that he got the energy to carve out that kind of individuality, great! But I would interpret it more in that light than in the light of reality. I mean, Roger has a melodramatic view of the world. He overdramatizes conflict, but that's part of his talent, he writes very dramatic songs. It's an incredible talent to write stuff like that, it works. He's a remarkable character, his combative nature, which i think he understands.

Joe Boyd (x)

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Robyn Hitchcock & Richard Thompson - "First Girl I Loved (Incredible String Band)," The Barbican, London, England, July 19, 2009

Robyn Hitchcock's Patreon continues to pay dividends if you're a Hitchcockian like myself. For example: a few weeks back, Robyn shared three Joe Boyd-produced demos from 1987 that were recorded for a proposed Incredible String Band tribute album. Alas, this was as far as the duo got. "We couldn’t find anyone else in the venal 1980s interested in these pantheistic Scottish minstrels who had peaked two decades earlier," Hitchcock reports. What, was R.E.M. too busy?!

Ah, well, it's good stuff to hear all these years later. About two decades on, Robyn showed up at a Boyd-organized tribute concert for the ISB with none other than Richard Thompson to perform a crackling rendition of "First Girl I Loved." Is this the only time Robyn and Richard have shared the stage? Maybe! (There's video, too.) What a great song — so ahead of its time in its candid/funny/sad way.

In Hitchcock's recent memoir, he writes evocatively of his first exposure to the Incredibles: "I drop the needle on 'Chinese White' and am immediately transported to Incredible String Land. The music is like the cover: teeming with joy and a mysterious darkness that underpins it. The songs are simultaneously celebrations and laments; like Dylan, Mike Heron and Robin Williamson seem to sense how sadness is the shadow of beauty. Unlike Dylan, they also sense the holiness of all living matter. These people must be very stoned. I don't yet know what exactly it is to be stoned, and I know probably it may not be the answer, but it will surely help me ask the right questions — won't it?"

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Brian Eno and Joe Boyd, Foyles, London, September 4, 2024

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Nick Drake on a beach taken by Julian Lloyd, 1967

“He appeared at my office the next morning in a black wool overcoat stained with cigarette ash. He was tall and handsome with an apologetic stoop; either he had no idea how good looking he was or was embarrassed by it.” - Joe Boyd

[mymelodic-chapel]

Nick Drake- Bryter Layter (Singer-Songwriter, Chamber Folk, Contemporary Folk) Released: March 5, 1971 [Island Records] Producer(s): Joe Boyd

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