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Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention covered Dylan

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And did it damned quickly, too. This was recorded live at the Troubador in LA in February of 1974. Two versions were released, one on the Sandy Denny box set Who Knows Where the Time Goes in 1985, and the other on her anthology A Boxful of Treasures in 2004. It first appeared on Dylan’s …

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Roots music, English version

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When Sandy Denny died in 1978 it was one of the greatest losses English folk music ever suffered. She was only 31, but she’d already contributed to Fotheringay and before that to Fairport Convention, two of the best traditional English music bands of the time. She’d released four solo albums after she left Fotheringay. Her …

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