Sandy Denny & Fotheringay - Kralingen Pop Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 6-28-1970

Here's something I just discovered for the first time to other day, so it goes to the top of my list of albums to post. Technically, it's a concert by the band Fotheringay. But since more people know the band's main singer Sandy Denny, I'm billing it in the post title to "Sandy Denny and Fotheringay."

Sandy Denny is arguably the most famous, and the best, of all British folk singers in the modern era. She was a member of Fairport Convention in the late 1960s, then had a second stint in the 1970s. But she released more music as a solo artist, until her death in 1978 at only the age of 31. She was a part of the band Fotheringay for just the year of 1970, and just one studio album. 

I like Denny's music with Fotheringay over most of her solo work. The reason is, while her voice sounds great on any given song, the songs often are too similar to each other for my tastes. with a lot of midtempo ballads. But with Fotheringay, she shared lead vocal and songwriting duties with her husband Trevor Lucas, leading to more variety, and they did more uptempo material that she usually did on her own, leading to even more variety. The fact that they covered a Chuck Berry song in this concert, "Memphis, Tennessee," shows they weren't afraid to rock.

This entire concert has been officially released on the compilation album "Nothing More: The Collected Fotheringay." There's another officially released concert by the band, "Fotheringay Essen 1970," but the set list is almost the same, and this has better sound quality.

The sound is really good, and the performance is too, except for one problem. For some bizarre reason, the "Nothing More" album had the applause fade out after each song, then they put in a couple of seconds of silence before fading in the next song. Happily, this was something I was able to fix. There was enough dead time between songs for me to get rid of the fade-ins, fade-outs, and silences, and keep the applause going continuously between songs so it sounds more like the concert that it was. I also generally boosted the applause, since it was quite low.

One disappointment is that the concert is rather short, at just 43 minutes long. But it seems to have been the whole concert. I'm guessing Fortheringay was an opening act, so they didn't get to play for over an hour like headlining acts typically did (and still do).

The reason this concert came to my attention is because I was digging around for material to make BBC albums for Sandy Denny and/or Fotheringay. So that'll be coming before long as well.

01 The Way I Feel (Fotheringay)
02 The Sea (Fotheringay)
03 Too Much of Nothing (Fotheringay)
04 Nothing More (Fotheringay)
05 I’m Troubled (Fotheringay)
06 Two Weeks Last Summer (Fotheringay)
07 talk (Fotheringay)
08 The Ballad of Ned Kelly (Fotheringay)
09 The Banks of The Nile (Fotheringay)
10 talk (Fotheringay)
11 Memphis, Tennessee (Fotheringay)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15110834/Fothringy1970_KralingenPopFestivlRotterdamNetherlands__6-28-1970_atse.zip.html

There are a good number of color photos of Sandy Denny, but far fewer of her as part of the Fotheringay band. To make the cover, I ultimately chose to take a couple of screenshots of the band during an appearance on the German TV show "Beat Club." I couldn't find a single screenshot that clearly showed the faces of both Sandy Denny and Trevor Lucas. So I combined two screenshots in Photoshop. There's another band member directly behind Denny, but you can't see much of him other than the neck of his guitar.