The Notes and the Words: A Collection of Demos and Rarities

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Blues Run the Game (home demo)
  3:29
• 2
  Soho (home demo)
  3:13
• 3
  It Ain’t Me Babe (home demo)
  3:40
• 4
  East Virginia (home demo)
  3:24
• 5
  Geordie (home demo)
  3:23
• 6
  In Memory (The Tender Years) (home demo)
  2:32
• 7
  I Love My True Love (home demo)
  2:30
• 8
  Ethusel (home demo)
  4:51
• 9
  Carnival (home demo)
  3:10
• 10
  They Don’t Seem to Know You (home demo)
  2:23
• 11
  Gerrard Street (home demo)
  1:59
• 12
  Seven Virgins (home demo)
  2:56
• 13
  A Little Bit of Rain (home demo)
  2:23
• 14
  Go Your Own Way My Love (home demo)
  4:01
• 15
  Cradle Song (home demo)
  2:24
• 16
  Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (home demo)
  4:31
• 17
  Motherless Children (home demo)
  2:31
• 18
  You Never Wanted Me

  Alex Campbell and His Friends
  3:21
• 19
  Milk and Honey
  4:30
• 20
  She Moves Through the Fair (acoustic version)
  5:02
• 21
  Fotheringay (acoustic version)
  3:06
• 22
  Now and Then (demo)
  3:47
• 23
  Autopsy (demo)
  4:27
• CD 2
• 1
  Are the Judges Sane?
  3:18
• 2
  Mr. Lacey (alternative take with Sandy lead vocal)

  Fairport Convention
  2:55
• 3
  The Ballad of Easy Rider (‘Liege & Lief’ outtake)

  Fairport Convention
  4:54
• 4
  A Sailor’s Life (first version without Swarb)

  Fairport Convention
  11:22
• 5
  Come All Ye (take 1)

  Fairport Convention
  5:25
• 6
  Matty Groves (take 1)

  Fairport Convention
  7:45
• 7
  The Way I Feel (original version)

  Fotheringay
  4:04
• 8
  The Sea (studio demo)

  Fotheringay
  4:53
• 9
  Winter Winds (studio demo)

  Fotheringay
  2:24
• 10
  The Pond and the Stream (studio demo)

  Fotheringay
  3:07
• 11
  John the Gun

  Fotheringay
  5:06
• 12
  Late November (Joe Boyd mix)
  4:32
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Next Time Around (demo)
  5:05
• 14
  Lord Bateman (demo)
  6:14
• CD 3
• 1
  The Optimist (demo)
  4:30
• 2
  Wretched Wilbur (demo)
  2:36
• 3
  Crazy Lady Blues (demo)
  3:31
• 4
  North Star Grassman and the Ravens (BBC TV ‘One in Ten’ live performance)
  3:23
• 5
  Blackwaterside (alternative take)
  4:18
• 6
  It’ll Take a Long Time (demo)
  4:39
• 7
  For Nobody to Hear (original version)
  4:34
• 8
  Quiet Joys of Brotherhood (demo)
  2:45
• 9
  The Lady (demo)
  2:59
• 10
  Bushes and Briars (demo)
  3:52
• 11
  The Music Weaver (demo)
  3:05
• 12
  No End (alternative take)
  10:29
• 13
  Solo (alternative take without overdub)
  4:28
• 14
  Whispering Grass (studio demo)
  4:14
• 15
  Friends (alternative take)
  3:31
• 16
  Dark the Night (alternative take)
  4:36
• 17
  Until the Real Thing Comes Along (studio demo)
  3:24
• CD 4
• 1
  The King and Queen of England (home demo, take 1)
  3:08
• 2
  After Halloween (home demo)
  3:00
• 3
  Take Away the Load (home demo)
  1:38
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Stranger to Himself (home demo)
  2:17
  3.0 ★
• 5
  By the Time It Gets Dark (home demo)
  3:22
• 6
  Down in the Flood (live)

  Fairport Convention
  3:16
• 7
  Knocking on Heaven’s Door (live)

  Fairport Convention
  4:26
• 8
  Like an Old Fashioned Waltz (live)

  Fairport Convention
  4:10
• 9
  Dawn (alternative version)
  4:09
• 10
  One More Chance (alternative version)
  3:45
• 11
  What Is True? (studio demo)
  3:17
• 12
  No More Sad Refrains (live ‘Marc Time’)
  3:12
• 13
  I Wish I Was a Fool for You (original ‘Gold Dust’ album version)
  4:27
• 14
  Gold Dust (original ‘Gold Dust’ album version)
  4:17
• 15
  Candle in the Wind (piano version)
  4:31
• 16
  One Way Donkey Ride (acoustic version)
  3:54
• 17
  I’m a Dreamer (alternative take without strings)
  4:59
• 18
  Still Waters Run Deep (acoustic version)
  2:53
• 19
  Full Moon (featuring David Swarbrick violin solo)
  4:30
• 20
  Moments (acoustic version)
  3:42
• 21
  Makes Me Think of You (demo)
  2:46

More by Sandy Denny

Borrowed Thyme

Borrowed Thyme 2001

The North Star Grassman and the Ravens

The North Star Grassman and the Ravens 1971

Early Home Recordings

Early Home Recordings 2022

I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn: The Acoustic Sandy Denny

I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn: The Acoustic Sandy Denny 2016

The Lady: The Essential Sandy Denny

The Lady: The Essential Sandy Denny 2013

Don’t Stop Singing

Don’t Stop Singing 2011

Release credits

• Ashley Hutchings
  arranger [4], bass [3-4], bass guitar [3]
• Dave Mattacks
  drums (drum set) [4.7, 2.3], percussion [7]
• Dave Pegg
  bass [7], vocal [7]
• Dave Swarbrick
  violin [7]
• Fairport Convention
  producer [3]
• Gerry Conway
  drums (drum set) [12]
• Jerry Donahue
  electric guitar [4.7, 2.12], guitar [7]
• Joe Boyd
  producer [2.3-4, 2.12, 1.22]
• John Wood
  engineer [3]
• Martin Lamble
  arranger [4], drums (drum set) [4]
• Pat Donaldson
  bass [12]
• Richard Thompson
  arranger [4], electric guitar [3-4]
• Sandy Denny
  12 string guitar [4.4-5, 1.22-23], arranger [4], electric guitar [21], guitar [3], lead vocals [4.3-5, 4.7, 4.21, 2.12, 3.11, 1.22-23], piano [2.12, 4.3, 4.7, 3.11], producer [3], vocal [2.3-4, 4.7, 1.3]
• Simon Nicol
  acoustic guitar [3], arranger [4], electric guitar [4], producer [3]
• Trevor Lucas
  acoustic guitar [2.12, 4.7], guitar [7], producer [11], vocal [7]

Issues

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  The Notes and the Words: A Collection of Demos and Rarities

  4x CD
  6 November 2012