Sandy Denny, Trevor Lucas: The Attic Tracks

This cassette is exclusively dedicated to Trevor Lucas. Sandy and Trevor have been playing together both in Fairport Convention and Sandy’s own band Fotheringay. Trevor’s powerful voice contributed considerably to the sound of the Rising for the Moon and Fotheringay albums. It was recorded live at The Troubadour Cafe, South Melbourne, in October 1984, with the exception of Darkness in the Valley which was recorded at the same venue in 1982 or 1983. Trevor is accompanied by Fred Kuhnl on bass guitar and Steve Groves on lead guitar, both from an early Bushwackers line-up.

Compiled by John Penhallow

Musicians

Trevor Lucas: vocals, acoustic guitar;
Steve Groves: lead guitar;
Fred Kuhnl: bass guitar

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Plainsman (3.33)
2. The Sun Never Shines on the Poor (4.19)
3. Marijuana Australiana (4.35)
4. Far From Me (3.31)
5. Factory Man (2.51)
6. Lucky Old Sun (5.44)
7. No Accounting Cowboy (3.05)
8. Song of the Stars (3.12)
9. The Ballad of 1891 (4.45)

Side 2

1. Darkness in the Valley (3.38)
2. I Threw It All Away (3.57)
3. Nothing at the End of the Rainbow (5.13)
4. Here Come the Cowboys (5.35)
5. The Town I Loved So Well (5.55)
6. You Gotta Pay Me If You Lay Me (3.29)
7. Walking on a Wire (5.00)
8. Forever Young (6.02)

Track 1 Trevor Lucas, Pete Roche;
Track 2, 12, 16 Richard Thompson;
Track 3 Brendan Hanley;
Track 4 John Prine;
Track 5 Shane Howard;
Track 6 Beasley Smith, Haven Gillespie;
Track 7 David Hampton;
Track 8, 10, 15 trad.;
Track 9 Helen Palmer, Doreen Bridges;
Tracks 11, 17 Bob Dylan;
Track 13 Brent Parlane;
Track 14 Phil Coulter

This is a cassette-only posthumous compilation put together by the Australian Friends of Fairport which became available in late 1989.

Tracks

Side 1: Home Demos & Radio Tracks 1966-67

1966 Home Demos

1. Blues Run the Game
2. Milk & Honey
3. Soho
4. In Memory (The Tender Years)
5. It Ain’t Me Babe
6. East Virginia
7. Geordie

1967 Home Demo

1. Fotheringay

Winter 1968 Home Demos

1. Just a Little Bit of Rain
2. Go Your Own Way Love

BBC Light Programme “Cellar Full of Folk”, rec. 6 March 1967, bc. 18 March 1967

1. Hold on to Me Babe

BBC World Service “Cellar Full of Folk”, host Alex Campbell (not “Folk Song Cellar”), rec. 2 December 1966, bc. 11 January 1967

1. Green Grow the Laurels
2. The Boatman (Fhír a Bhata)

1967 Home Demo; the first known recording of this song

1. Who Knows Where the Time Goes?

Tracks 1, 2 Jackson C. Frank;
Track 3 Bert Jansch;
Tracks 4, 8, 14 Sandy Denny;
Track 5 Bob Dylan;
Tracks 6, 7, 12, 13 trad.;
Track 9 Fred Neil;
Track 10 Anne Briggs;
Track 11 Tom Paxton

Side 2: Royalty Theatre Concert, 27 November 1977

Sandy’s last concert at the Royalty Theatre, London, on 27 November 1977. This is the biggest band that Sandy ever fronted, consisting of Dave Mattacks: drums; Pat Donaldson: bass; Trevor Lucas: acoustic guitar and vocals; Phil Palmer and Rob Hendry: lead guitars; Pete Willsher: pedal steel; and Sandy herself on piano and acoustic guitar.

The Royalty Theatre live version of The Lady appeared on the 1986 Who Knows Where the Time Goes? boxed set and all these plus six more titles in an overdubbed, remixed version on the 1998 Gold Dust - Live at the Royalty album.

1. Solo
2. The North Star Grassman and the Ravens
3. Gold Dust
4. The Sea
5. Tomorrow Is a Long Time
6. Stranger to Himself
7. For Shame of Doing Wrong
8. One More Chance
9. Who Knows Where the Time Goes?

All tracks Sandy Denny except
Track 5 Bob Dylan;
Track 7 Richard Thompson

This tape only collection was issued in 1994; one side features Trevor Lucas (with and without Fairport) and the other side features Sandy Denny.

Tracks

Side 1: Trevor’s Side: Before, During and After

1. Stagger Lee
2. The Flash Stockman
3. Far From Me
4. Possibly Parsons Green
5. Days of ’49
6. The Ballad of Ned Kelly
7. Down Where the Drunkards Roll
8. Quiet Joys of Brotherhood
9. Breakaway
10. Land of the Free
11. Only a Shot in the Dark
12. Maxine
13. Picture of You

All tracks Trevor Lucas except
Tracks 1, 2, 5 trad.;
Track 3 John Prine;
Track 4 Trevor Lucas, Pete Roche;
Track 7 Richard Thompson;
Track 8 Richard Fariña;
Track 9 Trevor Lucas, Ian Mason

Side 2: Sandy’s Side: Unstrung Songs

Home demos

1. I Love My True Love
2. Let No Man Steal Your Thyme
3. Carnival
4. Makes Me Think of You

The unreleased French single version of Listen, Listen

1. Ecoute, Ecoute

Demos from the Byfield recordings, 1973/74

1. One More Chance
2. Rising for the Moon

BBC Radio “Sounds of the Seventies”, host Bob Harris, rec. 14 November 1973, bc. 17 December 1973

1. Until the Real Thing Comes Along
2. Whispering Grass
3. Dark the Night
4. Solo

Like an Old Fashioned Waltz session out-takes without the strings of the final versions

1. Like an Old Fashioned Waltz
2. At the End of the Day

All tracks Sandy Denny except
Track 2 trad.;
Track 8 Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, L.E. Freeman;
Track 9 Fred & Doris Fisher