The familiar version of Sandy Denny's gorgeous 'No End', with a full band and sumptuous string section, was recorded in 1973 and released on her third solo LP, 'Like an Old Fashioned Waltz'. The initial recording of the song, however, featured just Sandy alone at the piano and was made in December 1972 at the Walthamstow Assembly Hall (about a mile from where I and my family then lived). Steel yourself, it's breathtaking.
Sandy Denny - No End
6 comments:
Gorgeous.
Gorgeous.
Second that!
Blimey.
It's a beauty isn't it?
Every time you spend a little of your day with Sandy she just gets better. I managed to get the embarrassment of riches which was the massive boxset a few years back. It has a couple of demo versions of "No End" on disc 11 and disc 15. Gone for over forty years and there are out-takes and demos like these. She was pretty special.
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