hbs47 wrote:
Spot on.  I always have to just stop what I'm doing and take in the moment.  (Pardon the split-infinitive.)

Follow with one of Grace Slick et al's more mellow bits for continuity... Maybe "Come Up the Years"...

 lily34 wrote: 
Clueless!

Sandy Denny's voice  and Richard Thompson's guitar work, ably assisted by the rest it doesn't get much better . This is a solid 10, more if it were possible.

What a tune!

A great female singer who does this song great justice is Eva Cassidy. Her version of this is on the album - Imagine.

Whoa! Out of bounds, that was terrific.

If I am going to like a song just for the quality of the vocals, then it's almost always because it's a woman singing.  No matter how good the voice is, though, I have to like the song for me to enjoy it.  A good voice cannot make a bad song good.  A bad voice can sing a good song.  I like this song, and her voice.

What a voice.

Peerlessly exquisite. Haunting, yearning, such beautiful phrasing. If ever a song deserved a score of 11 this is the one.

She doesn't like fickle friends and wants to hang around when clearly the party is over... is she planning on murdering him, because she doesn't sound like she's got the horn?

You need to play Judy Collins' version, I can't say which one I like better. They are both just beautiful vocalists.

wonderful 

lord this is horrible!

Just lovely - and it means more now, eh?

Its a shame the scale only goes to a 10. This is probably her most well known song but I never get tired tired of hearing it.  Judy Collins did a cover of it also before this version of Sandy's was recorded with FC and though its good it just doesn't hold a candle to Sandy..Sandy did other versions of this song including an earlier version with the Strawbs and its excellent also. Just wish they would play more of her here. I've uploaded many of her less heard songs but they never make it into the library.

I have not heard this for years.

What a wonder of a song.

Not being morbid or such-like - but when the day comes, I'm having this played at my funeral. Either this, or 'Meet on the Ledge' - there won't be a dry eye in the house!!

if 4.5 minutes of thoughtful retrospect is just too much angst for you ... well ... you haven't lived long enough — stunningful beautful

Sweet.

What a beautiful, haunting piece. I never get tired of hearing it. Thanks, RP.

Thank you, Bill. I was searching for the author of Who Knows..., always thought if was Judy Collins as well.  Sandy Denny, I have an old vinyl of hers I am going to dig out. A beautiful song and a great station as evidenced by the variety of the listeners you capture based on the comments below at least.

 shutter wrote: 
That's probably Richard Thompson - who is a remarkable guitarist - playing on this track.  Beautiful song.

 sirdroseph wrote: 
I have to agree. Too much angst for far too long. Sandy has a lovely voice for the first two minutes but after that the nostalgia wore off and I was ready for something else.

I am so loading my iPos with FC tonight, it's nice to be reminded of the stuff I love.

Haven't heard this in so long.  I have remained a Richard Thompson fan and have some of his CD's from last two decades. 

I hate to admit this...because I know it captures a time a place a mood. But this is just painful. I think it's because there is no change in the intensity of the emotion expressed in her vocals at all. No build up, its like 4.5 minutes are straight pain and misery. I just don't get it. EVERY line can't be so filled with ennui and pain can it?

I went to a Richard Thompson concert recently.  He performed one of Sandy's old Fairport songs and said something I totally agreed with.  He said that he wished that Sandy's music would be rediscovered much like Nick Drake's music had.  That would be nice.

 DoofusGeezer wrote: 
Seriously!.  And I really love that guitar.  Subtle but really poignant.   Kinda reminds me of Peter Green's work, I think.