is the music of Sandy Denny. How did that session come about?
There was a lady called Frances van Staden who was a publicist – and who later married Andy McCulloch, GREENSLADE’s drummer – and she was looking after Sandy Denny and FAIRPORT CONVENTION, THE DUBLINERS and other folky type people. I just went with her to a studio one evening, ’cause she and I were together at the time, and Richard Thompson and Sandy were there recording some tracks, but they didn’t have a bass player and they asked me if I’d like to play bass. So I did. Sandy was fabulous! (As if addressing CURVED AIR’s Sonja Kristina) Sorry, Sonja, but to me she had the greatest female voice that I’d ever worked with. I think her voice was absolutely stunning. If you’re talking about sensitivity and emotion, it’s one of the very very few things that I would listen to that would send a shiver up my spine. And she was a lovely person, she was really great. – The only other female voice I could compare Sandy’s to – though they’re very different – is Maggie Bell’s. I guess they had simil
