Drummer reacts to "Who Knows Where The Time Goes?" & "Percy's Song" by Fairport Convention
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- As promised after the Sandy Denny video for "Who Knows Where The Time Goes?"... The original Fairport version AND a Bob Dylan cover in "Percy's Song" that came out before his own version came out! They are one after the other on the album "Unhalfbricking" and flow perfectly... Sandy and Richard are a hell of a mix, man. What an overwhelming feeling of nostalgia and catharsis these songs bring.
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Who Knows Where The Time Goes has been covered by a lot of people, but none can ever equal Sandy's original. Superb.
Imagine writing that at 19 it’s has such mature lyrics.
On the cover of Unhalfbricking: The photo captured Sandy Denny's parents, standing outside the family home in South London, with the band distantly visible through the garden fence.
Liege and Lief is on my desert Island albums list.
A lovely listening experience.
Hutchings and Mattacks are way way up there in the pantheon of rhythm sections for me. Like right next to Jones/Bonham and Helm/Danko.
Percy's Song was one of the many Dylan songs only available on a few bootleg albums in the 70's, giving it a mythical status among fans at the time.
I live in the village of Cropredy,Fairports spiritual home and home to their wonderful annual festival..Cropredy Convention..l am also lucky enough to call Chris Leslie and Rick from Fairport's,my friends..
Cropredy is my spiritual home too - every year since 1979 - I've probably passed you many times in the village/field and never known.....
Who Knows Where The Time Goes? is definitely a song I want played at my funeral. And it must be *THIS* version. Sandy is irreplaceable.
The drummer, Martin Lamble, was killed in a van accident shortly after this album was recorded, and before it was released. He was only 19. The whole band was in the van, which overturned on the way home from a gig. Richard Thompson's girlfriend was also killed in the accident.
Wow, I did not know that. And then Sandy Denny was killed falling down stairs? What a tragic series of events.
Richard Thompson's career is a rabbit hole definitely worth going down! Criminally underated as a songwriter and master guitarist (acoustic as well as electric), he has had a long and storied career and is still at it today!!
RT's autobiography "Beeswing" is a great look at his early years and the story of Fairport.
He is the consummate musician.
One of the best!
Not many band can say they created a whole genre. I love this band. Sandy had such a great voice and Richard is my all time favorite musician. 🎶
They didn’t start the genre if you mean folk/rock. There were bands before and at the same time as Fairport, like Pentangle, both formed in 1967.
The Byrds were the earlier band that really started the folk/rock genre, although Pentangle and Fairport were the British version and sounded different.
@@martinmorris5997 Liege and Lief is widely considered to be the first major British Folk Rock album. That's what I meant by my comment.
@@martinmorris5997I'd add STEELEYE SPAN to that list..🎉
@@copperhopperwarren4788 sure. Below the Salt is my favorite. Their 1st album came out in 1970, a bit after Fairport.
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They came later, as they started in 1969, but yes they are legends. If we are moving on to 1969, then there are also Lindisfarne who had commercial success.
I had Fairport convention or something by Sandy Denny on my list. Her voice was just so beautiful. She sang a duet with Robert Plant for one of Led Zeppelin songs too. She died so young. I think 31 years old.
The Battle of Evermore
Unfortunately, not long after this album had been completed, the band got into a terrible van accident when their roadie fell asleep at the wheel. Martin Lamble, their drummer, and Richard Thompson's girlfriend, Jeannie Franklyn, died. Lamble was only nineteen-years old.
When I first learned of how old Sandy Denny was when she died, I was probably about nineteen-years old myself; and I remember thinking, 'Oh, 31 is fairly old.' Now, it's been 34 years since I was nineteen and I have a hard time understanding how I thought that being in one's thirties was 'old.'
May all of them rest in peace.
She is the only woman to sing on a LZ song.
@@franksullivan1873 True!
@@realbser1956 Yes, so good!
I think she was 15 or 16 when she wrote 'Who Knows Where The Time Goes'
That’s incredible honestly. Such maturity and self reflection for a kid.
A Sailor's Life is a masterpiece, but at just over 11 minutes it doesn't get much attention from the reaction community for some reason. 🙂
Their subsequent album 'Liege & Lief' is widely regarded as the seminal British folk-rock album. The project was, in many ways, an exercise for the band to come together after the motorway crash which killed Martin Lamble and Richard's girlfriend Jeannie Franklyn and left the others deeply traumatised.
I will keep that one in mind. I might just do it after this video and how good it was.
A Sailor's Life. The birth of English folk rock.
Being more familiar with the 1968 Judy Collins version, I was happy to hear the original. Loved "Percy's Song" with the heavy 60's folk rock feel. Great selections bring great memories to mind, so many thanks. Blessings all. Peace
I always find it absolutely amazing that Fairport Convention were able to record 3 classic albums in 1969 alone (What We Did On Our Holidays, Unhalfbricking and Liege and Lief), a year in which they were involved in the tragic post gig van crash which took the life of their drummer, Martin Lamble and their friend Jeanie Franklyn.
Sandy Denny's post Fairport career is well worth delving into, first with the group Fotheringay and then her solo albums (The North Star Grassman and the Ravens, Sandy, Like An Old Fashioned Waltz and Rendezvous). Notable tracks (there are many) are "Listen, Listen" "Tomorrow Is A Long Time" (another Dylan cover), "Solo", "The Lady" "Bushes and Briars" and "I'm A Dreamer". (If you only listen to one track then I would suggest the latter).
Sandy Denny recorded the first demo of Who Knows Where The Time Goes in 1966, it was the second song she wrote. Later in 1967 she joined the Strawbs and recorded a second version of it with just her on vocal and guitar. In 1968 after hearing the original demo, Judy Collins recorded it as the B side to her version of Joni Mitchells Both Sides Now. This was Sandys 3rd recording with Fairport Convention. This was also the last song she sang at her last ever performance before she passed at age 31.
Don't forget that Judy's version was used on the soundtrack of the Patricia Neal film "The Subject Was Roses," and that version is acoustic -- but on Judy's album of the same name, she used the first verse from that recording, then segued into another version with electric accompaniment, including Stephen Stills. That confused me when I first got the album.
Fairport Convention is a sleeper of a group with amazing music from throughout a catalog that traverses through incredible change. I'd recommend "Chelsea Morning" and "Time Will Show the Wiser" from the debut (with Judy Dyble on vocals instead of Sandy Denny), and almost anything from "Liege & Leaf," but especially "Come All Ye," "The Deserter," and the two epics "Matty Groves" and "Tam Lin."
Ah! Fairport at last - my almost life-long obsession after The Beatles - following them now for 56 years. Martin Lamble lived a stone's throw away from me back in the day. The band has obviously been through many changes of people and styles over all those years and this is the early sound before the "Swarbrick" era. If you want to hear rock fiddle playing like you've never heard before, check out "Sloth" from the next but one album (not one of the myriad live versions though). I think you will be amazed by that line-up.
Sandy Denny recorded an earlier version of "Who Knows Where The Time Goes?" with The Strawbs in 1967.
Great reaction. I hope you hear their song "Meet on the Ledge." It is beautiful and touching.
For some reason the “tears in the rain” speech from Blade Runner has entered my mind in relation to the question “where does the time go?” It’s a very different context, of course, but I think it captures something about how ephemeral life can be. And it’s probably no accident that “Percy’s Song” sounds 300 years old. According to Wikipedia, Dylan based the tune on an old folk ballad he heard from another singer. The lyrics have a ballad form to my ears, too.
Wow I was pretty close then. It does have this old world flair to it… especially this version. I have to hear bobs now. And I love the tears in the rain monologue. hell the whole movie is poetry. So many existential questions posed by one movie.
so l wasn't forlorn but now its homesickness...wind ,& rain💚
Percy's song by Bob Dylan. They really loved 😍 him!
Sandy has such a beautiful voice. Very nice to hear Lee.
Sandy made 4 exquisite solo albums before her untimely death in 1978. They are all worth a listen.
These are two beautiful songs.
I always loved Who Knows, it always has a warm melancholy to it, and as you get older and more and more times passes its meaning becomes more poignant, the song is like autumn (fall) heading into winter, After Haloween (the demo version) by Sandy Denny always has the effect on me, and other songs like Jackson Brown's These Days, or Ringo's Photograph you had on the other day. They are sad, but almost (I can only speak for me) a comfort blanket as you get older, and I am probably 3 times your age, and so glad someone younger can appreciate all this wonderful music, and thanks for listening to it and sharing your thoughts.
Have you heard Judy Collins' "The Fallow Way"?
@@leonardshevlin7260 yes a lovely song, have a lot of Judy's music, incidentally she does a wonderful version of Who Knows Where the Times Goes.
Awesome! Pentangle is another British traditional folk group, with jazz influences…so many live performances on RUclips. A nice place to start would be Light Flight, uptempo and jazzy.
"Hunters Song" a long time entry on my all-time faves list.
@@brianparker663yes, so many great tunes!
The first song really touched me. The second sounded like an old folk song like Barbara Alllen
I never expected to ever see anyone react to Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, or Percy's Song, which is one of my favorites going back 50 years. Yet you did! Fantastic! Amazing to find someone who even knows who Sandy Denny or Richard Thompson are!
I’m glad I took the plunge. They are magical sounding. So old yet so new.
One of my favorite groups. Richard Thompson is an incredible guitarist. Check out his work as well as Sandy Denny
I'll be seeing Fairport again in a couple of weeks - they are lovely live. Last year I mentioned to bass player Dave Pegg that I'd been coming to see them for over 40 years, and he said "blimey, you've kept your hair well"... 😂 BTW, I agree there has been an attack on the individual, but I think it mainly takes the form of an attack on _community_ - if they keep people isolated they can better control or discard them. You saying you listen to your elders and learn, that's part of what community is about (though not just elders, I've learned a lot from younger generations too) - connection, sharing knowledge and experience. It brings people closer together. Like you do with this channel.
Time keeps on slipping into the future 😅😂
Oh sandy ❤😢 great reaction Lee. ❤
You are a beautiful soul thank you ❤
When I was a spotty teenager hooked totally on US West Coast music The Fairports went under my Radar even though the were playing constantly in local venues. It's one of my true regrets. Have a listen to Fotheringay A Sailors Life and MattyGroves do yourself a favour Listen to all the albums.
I also love what Sandy did with just an acoustic guitar accompaniment for The Time Goes, and Percy's Song does sound for all the world like an old English folk song; it sounds tailor made for The Fairports. Oh, and amongst Sandy's early recordings is a cover of "Blues Run the Game", an also oft covered song by Jackson C. Frank. Great upload.
Thank you for this, Lee. I love this Who Knows Where The Time Goes. It’s so sweet, quiet and reflective. It’s less passionate than her acoustic version.
Love that you are reacting to this, thanks! One of my favorite folk rock songs ever. If you want to hear song with the same nostalgia and sadness - Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren" and the same troubadour vibe, please listen to Ronnie Lane after his Faces career with lots of his songs
I just adore the track "A Sailor`s Life" from this album. Maybe lee will get to hear it some day?
One of the saddening things about Sandy's legacy is that there is so little footage of her performing. One of the best clips I can recommend therefore is a live clip (at the BBC I think) of her at the piano singing Late November, one of her greatest songs.
I was familiar with Judy Collins version of "Who Knows" and while searching for another song by Denny I just discovered she was also in a band called Fotheringay and the song "The Sea" is also a gem. Very emotive and beautiful. The song I was trying to find turned out to be Judy Collins' "Nightingale 1" which with just sparce piano accompaniment Is one of the most moving songs I've ever heard. At 63 I'm still finding old musical treasure and hope that it doesn't take you that long to hear these songs I've just found. Thanks for finding beauty in all genres. P.S. I left a PayPal donation that I hope is adequate for the suggestions.
You have uncovered a treasure trove here….the early albums of Fairport were a delight to listen to and so fresh, exploring new boundaries for ‘Folk Rock’…(indeed, some have attributed ‘A Sailors Life’ from the Unhalbricking album as the threshold that released a whole new genre of British Folk music…you have got to give that track a serious listen as its breath taking)/ The albums “What We Did on Our Holidays”, “Unhalfbricking”, Leige and Lief”. “Full House” are all very good and paved the way for bands such as Steeleye Span, Lindisfarne, Amazing Blondel , artists like John Martyn…all experimenting and giving us wealth of music to digest and absorb. Thomson was a genius, Swarbrick a fountain of folk knowledge and a brilliant violinist, Sandy Denny had the most neautiful voice and all were ably accompanied by the likes of Dave Mattacks and Simon Pegg who were also excellent musicians. I saw them live several times…along with many other great artists and bands in the late 60’s early 70’s…..we were blessed with such and eclectic mix of amazing music at that time.
Richard Thompson says Percy's Song is one of his favorite FC songs, and one of their best interpretations of Dylan. (And that the dulcimer was placed 10 ft from the drums so the dulcimer mic also acted as a room mic.)
Saw them live once opening up for Jethro Toe, Tull 😊. I don’t remember them as I was waiting for Tull. I think it was the 1987 tour . ✌️
Lovely.
Where does time go? You get busy with life, and time is gone.
Sandy, the only person to sing on a Zeppelin album besides Robert Plant
The "What is the instrument" moment - it's a dulcimer - the Appalachian type - played by Simon Nicol (who has affectionally referred to it as an "electric cricket bat") - it it typically strummed giving a jangly/twangy sound
If you ever wondered what a superb accompaniment sounds like just listen to RT's guitar on Sandy's seminal song! Steven Stills did a fine job on Judy Collin's version as well.
L33 I’m 56 and you teach me quite a bit. Don’t sell yourself short.
Love this sound!
Along with J.J. Cale, Richard Thompson is one of Mark Knopfler‘s great guitar influences. I got to see him play once in a club in Austin. He was alone, and he is a master guitarist: no hesitation, full confidence, never misses. He should be better known than he is. Fairport Convention was just a classic band. I’ve never heard Bob Dylan sing “Percy’s Song”, but in the ‘Bob Dylan: Don’t Look Back’ movie/documentary Joan Baez sings and plays it in their hotel room while Dylan types out lyrics. Another reason you really should find an hour and a half sometime to watch it. I know you’re busy, but you’ll be glad you did. You’ll feel like you’ve known Dylan for years afterwards. Where does the time go? Every year gets faster. Why? When we were young everything was new. There’s fascination with all we see and touch, so much stimulation and learning that each day is epic. We remember something about each day, so we remember each day, and time crawls along. As we get older, not everything is new. We have our responsibilities and our list of things to do. We go down the list, reasoning that when we finish the list we’ll be free, but you never finish the list. Women are better than men as far as taking things as they come. Men say “Don’t add things to my list!” What really happens is we quit looking for new things, excitement in the world. We think there’s nothing new to find, but there always is. Find something new and memorable about each day to separate it from another day: a new friend, book, a snake in the park, a storm, anything. Get back to your sense of wonder and time will slow down for you.
I saw Richard Thompson alone with just his acoustic guitar about a year and a half ago and all you say is so true…plus he’s REALLY funny. Gonna see him next month with his band so he’ll be electric…cannot wait. Have you ever heard Richard’s beautiful title song doing electric guitar to the film Grizzly Man? It’s achingly beautiful
@@Jonni1027I have now. Thank you! His playing is amazing. It’s like he hears the sound in his head and then translates it the best way he can through his fingers… Well, I guess all guitar players do that, but they don’t all play double notes, tune the key while they play the string, or make the guitar sound fretless. I looked up the soundtrack on Wikipedia, and according to them Thompson improvised it in the studio as the movie played. How? Wow. Thank you again for that and enjoy the show. I’m a little jealous.
@@lathedauphinot6820 Yes he’s simply the best. I watched a video of him playing watching to the film footage…gonna see if I can find it again❤️
One of my endless loves ❤
Wow that first one just hurt ❤
Couple of heavyweights back then in the UK folk world, FC and the Strawbs. The latter were a bit more pop-py and had some big hits. Reminded Of F C when I recently dusted off an old copy of 'Nice enough to Eat', a great mixed artist album with Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Traffic, Mott the Hoople, Free etc.
Nice reactions to 2 great songs by Fairport Convention. This is one of the last vinyl LPs I've purchased, 30 years ago. I had discovered Richard Thompson in the 80s and really enjoyed his work so I went back to check out his earliest work. The cover is Utopian, I'd say,and the music unique. They had another Dylan tunes called "Million Dollar Bash" which wouldn't come out till the "Basement Tapes" was released in 1975. Just like Joni Mitchell's "Chelsea Morning" was released as a single by Fairport, b4 Joni's album I believe. I also recommend the best of I bought, "Meet on the Ledge" --The Classic Years (1967-1975). Two discs full of great music. They started w a blend of
Scotch-Irish Folk + rock and roll.
a great album & track, obviously Sandy Denny excelled with "Who Knows Where The Time Goes" Fairport Convention had many great tracks & live were always superb, whatever line up they had.
newarker 47 Percy was a guy who worked in clubs in the Village and was friends with people like Dylan and Havens. He was in a car accident in Illinois and pot was found in his car,hence the long sentence back then.Dylan did actually visit the judge,to no avail. But the line *He's is no criminal and his crime it is none* was considered to be the first marijuana legalization song and that verse was left out of the BBC live radio show that Fairport did.
They used to be known as Englands Greatful Dead back in the day
Hope you listen to Bobs version.
When you're ready for more from Fairport Convention with Sandy Denny, also check out "Farewell, Farewell", "Ballad of Easy Rider", "She Moves Through The Fair", "Come All Ye", "Tam Lin", and "Matty Groves". And from earlier before she joined the band, also check out "Reno, Nevada", and "Portfolio". Good stuff! Led Zeppelin assigned Sandy Denny the fifth rune for her work on "The Battle of Evermore" off their fourth album.
@@mikecaetano Matty Groves, their masterpiece!
Yes I'm totally enjoyin' this Fairport Convention version o' Who Knows Where The Time Goes now. On yer previous post o' another version o' this song I up 'n recommended the early version Sandy recorded with The Strawbs included on their album All Our Own Work. That recommendation still stands...
Much prefer Dylan's version, which, though recorded early in his career, was only available as a bootleg for many years. When Bob sings it, it sounds very personal and from today rather than from 300 years ago. I believe Joan Baez sings it as well.
Play "Who Knows Where The Time Goes" after a loved one passes. Sob city.
That intro to Who Knows is llike Autumn Stone by the Small Fac3s. Nice song never heard it before.
Maybe this will lead Lee to Steeleye Span? Would be amazing, especially their first album is well worth it.
Oooof those were tough for me to listen to. Definitely not going on my top 500 song list anytime soon...
It's the same story the crow told me, It's the only one he knows. Like the morning sun you come, and like the wind you go.
Ain't no time to hate. Barely time to wait. Woah, oh, what I want to know, Where does the time go?
Songwriters: Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter
Do the version of Dylan....Percy's Song....fantastic and very emotional
I'll keep it with mine.
I enjoy Arlo Guthrie's version of "Percy's Song." In fact, I think the entire WASHINGTON COUNTY album is his masterpiece.
It's made for Sunday morning listening...
Sometimes I want to hear Fairport, sometimes just Sandy. No preference.
Sandy Denny wrote 'Who Knows Where the Time Goes'? And that's her singing? Pleas correct me if I'm wrong? The photo is of her parents anyway!
Have you heard the earlier version of “Who Knows Where the Time Goes” by Sandy Denny and the Strawbs?
My favourite version. 😊
I’ve heard her solo version of it. I don’t know if the strawbs were in it though. The video is linked at the bottom of the description of this video of the other video I did for her solo version.
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I believe the Strawbs version is the earliest from before Fairports, and before her own solo version. She was very young as were the Strawbs when she recorded it, and it wasn’t as polished as the other versions, which I like. They had less of a budget to record it for their album together, that wasn’t released until Denny and the Strawbs both became famous in the early to mid 1970’s.
I prefer “Who Knows” as sung by Judy Collins, but either way, it’s a favorite song. Beautifully captures the sense of loss we all experience in this life.
Probably a purer voice than Joni’s ???
You should listen to Dylan's version, much more pure and real. I don't like this one at all.