Sandy Denny: Sandy Denny - review

(Universal, 19 CD box set)Sandy Denny was the finest, most versatile female British singer of the 1960s and 70s, remarkable for her treatment of anything from traditional British folk songs to American country, jazz, or rock, as well as for her own, often highly personal, brooding ballads. She was enormous fun to spend time with, hated talking about her music, and possessed a quite extraordinary voice that could switch between the gentle and the epic. She died from a fall in 1978, aged 31, witho...

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