Alex Campbell and his Friends

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Alex Campbell and his Friends
Studio album by Alex Campbell
Released	1967
Recorded	22 March 1967, London
Label	Saga Records ERO 8021
Producer	Marcel Rodd
Alex Campbell chronology
Alex Campbell at the Tivoli Gardens (1967) Alex Campbell and his Friends (1967) Alex Campbell Live (1967)

Alex Campbell and his Friends is an album by Alex Campbell with: Sandy Denny, Johnny Silvo and the Johnny Silvo Folk Group featuring Roger Evans and David Moses, Paul MacNeill and Cliff Aungier.

This March 1967 recording is the first release that Sandy Denny is featured on.

[edit] Tracks

Side 1

1. Alex Campbell: "Dark as a Dungeon (Down in the Mine)" (Merle Travis)
2. Johnny Silvo: "Midnight Special" (trad)
3. Johnny Silvo: "Cornbread, Peas and Black Molasses" (trad)
4. Johnny Silvo: "Freight Train" (Elizabeth Cotten)
5. Sandy Denny: "The False Bride" (trad)
6. Alex Campbell: "Don't Think Twice It's Alright" (Bob Dylan)
7. Cliff Aungier: "Chilly Winds" (trad)
8. Cliff Aungier: "Blue Sleeves" (trad)

Side 2

1. Paul McNeill: "Dick Derby" (trad)
2. Sandy Denny: "You Never Wanted Me" (Jackson C. Frank)
3. Alex Campbell: "Been on the Road So Long" (Alex Campbell)
4. Cliff Aungier: "Dink's Song" (trad)
5. Sandy Denny: "This Train" (trad)
6. Paul McNeill: "Tell Old Bill" (trad)
7. Alex Campbell: "Freedom" (trad)

[edit] Reissues

Saga Records produced another album with Sandy Denny: Sandy and Johnny. In 1970 Saga released a compilation called It's Sandy Denny that featured the songs Denny recorded for the label, partly as alternate takes.

The complete material (original plus alternate takes) has been put out by Castle Music in 2005 under the title Where the Time Goes.

[edit] External links

• Album information

v • d • e Sandy Denny Solo albums It's Sandy Denny · The North Star Grassman and the Ravens · Sandy · Like an Old Fashioned Waltz · Rendezvous · Gold Dust Albums with Fairport Convention What We Did on Our Holidays · Unhalfbricking · Liege & Lief · Fairport Live Convention · Rising for the Moon · Heyday Albums with Fotheringay Fotheringay Collaborations Alex Campbell and his Friends · Sandy and Johnny · All Our Own Work · Rock On · Sandy Denny and the Strawbs Compilations Who Knows Where the Time Goes? · The BBC Sessions 1971-1973 · Live at the BBC · A Box of Treasures Guest appearances "The Battle of Evermore" (with Led Zeppelin) · Tommy (with The Who) · Galleries (with The Young Tradition) · Ragtime Cowboy Jew (with Stefan Grossman)