Sandy Denny - Like an Old Fashioned Waltz - 1973 (Remastered 2005)

Genre: Folk Rock
Country of CD Production: EU
Year of CD Release: 2005
Publisher (Label): Island Records
Catalog Number: 982 802-3
Country: UK
Audio Codec: FLAC (*.flac)
Rip Type: Tracks+.cue
Audio Bitrate: Lossless
Duration: 01:05:55

Tracklist:
01. Solo 04:26
02. Like an Old Fashioned Waltz 04:14
03. Whispering Grass (D.Fisher, F.Fisher) 03:59
04. Friends 03:35
05. Carnival 05:50
06. Dark the Night 04:32
07. At the End of the Day 06:31
08. Until the Real Thing Comes Along (S.Cohn, S.Chaplin, L.Freeman) 03:45
09. No End 06:42
Bonus Tracks:
10. At the End of the Day (alternate take without strings) 06:31
11. King & Queen of England (demo recorded at home, Byfield, Northants, Dec. 1974) 03:54
12. Like an Old Fashioned Waltz (feat. Fairport Convention) (previously unreleased) 04:13
13. No End (solo piano version) 07:35

With Like an Old Fashioned Waltz, Sandy Denny expands on the more polished moments that her previous work, Sandy (1972), had suggested. The tone throughout most of the record is melancholy and personal, with gentle piano, rich strings, and barely a trace of her British folk roots. "Solo," one of her best songs, opens the album with a sense of apprehension and yearning, while cuts such as the beautifully vivid title track, the longing "At the End of the Day," and the evocative closer "No End" nicely follow suit. The Ink Spots covers "Whispering Grass" and "Until the Real Thing Comes Along" break the mood a bit, but it's a testament to the breadth of Denny's talent that she's able to make this sort of jazz-inflected pop work for her. These two songs seem to hint at a new direction that never really materialized in her final years, though an entire album of Ink Spots tunes was actually rumored at one point. As Sandy Denny's last solo work for four years, Like an Old Fashioned Waltz remains an intimate and moving record