(Folk/Folk-Rock/Psychedelic) Bridget St. John - 5 альбомов (Remastered & Expanded Edition) - 1969 - 2010, MP3, 320 kbps

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01 - A Da A Way 00:03:17
02 - City-Crazy 00:02:45
03 - Early Morning Song 00:01:57
04 - Back To Stay 00:04:48
05 - Seagull-Sunday 00:03:10
06 - If You'd Been There 00:04:08
07 - Song For The Laird Of Connaught Hall - Part 2 00:01:28
08 - Making Loser Better 00:03:55
09 - The Lady And The Gentle Man 00:03:09
10 - Downderry Daze 00:03:20
11 - The Pebble And The Man 00:03:33
12 - It Seems Very Strange 00:00:45
13 - Fly High (Single Version) 00:03:30
14 - There's Is A Place I Know 00:02:40
15 - Suzanne 00:05:32
16 - Passing Thru' 00:04:27
On her second album, Bridget Saint John expanded her arrangements from the acoustic guitar of her previous effort considerably, with the aid of producer Ron Geesin. While these took the risks of sometimes bathing the songs in too much fruitiness, in general the added cellos, flutes, bassoons, violins, horns, and backup voices did much to add welcome spice to a sound that had gotten a little numbingly similar over the course of her debut.
The songs, too, were a little more playful and melodically interesting, though they retained the reserved, even-tempered pastoralism of her prior work. She still sounds like a challenge to raise either a smile or a frown out of most of the time, like a hermit determined to stay out of the city at all costs. It's pleasant if not penetrating rainy-day folk/Baroque, breaking out of that mood with "Seagull-Sunday" (which certainly sounds influenced by Joni Mitchell) and Donovan's "The Pebble and the Man" (with some almost comically eccentric, operatic male backup vocals). She never sounded more like Nico than she did on the too-short 42-second closer, "It Seems Very Strange," with its doom-struck harmonium.

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01 - Nice 00:03:24
02 - Thank You For... 00:03:40
03 - Lazarus 00:04:23
04 - Goodbaby Goodbye 00:02:10
05 - Love Minus Zero, No Limit 00:03:23
06 - Silver Coin 00:03:08
07 - Happy Day 00:03:56
08 - Fly High 00:03:24
09 - To Leave Your Cover 00:03:23
10 - Every Day 00:04:23
11 - A Song Is As Long As It Wants To Go On 00:01:13
12 - Nice (Recorded Live At Montreux, Switzerland On April 28, 1972) 00:04:58
13 - Silver Coin (Recorded Live At Montreux, Switzerland On April 28, 1972) 00:03:47
14 - Fly High (Recorded Live At Montreux, Switzerland On April 28, 1972) 00:04:33
15 - Lazarus (Recorded Live At Montreux, Switzerland On April 28, 1972) 00:05:52
16 - The River (Recorded Live At Montreux, Switzerland On April 28, 1972) 00:04:11
17 - Thank You For... (Recorded Live At Montreux, On April 28, 1972) 00:04:42
18 - Ask Me No Questions (Recorded Live At Montreux, On April 28, 1972) 00:05:27
19 - If You've Got Money (Recorded Live At Montreux, On April 28, 1972) 00:03:01
Bridget St John is a singer and songwriter best known for the three albums she recorded between 1969 and 1972 for John Peel's Dandelion record label. Peel produced her debut album Ask Me No Questions. She also recorded a large number of BBC and Peel sessions and toured regularly on the early UK college and festival circuit. Her popularity peaked in 1974 when she was voted fifth most popular female singer in that year's Melody Maker readers poll.
An accomplished guitar player, she credits John Martyn (with whom she has been friends since college) as her guitar mentor.
The second album Songs for the Gentle Man, was produced by Ron Geesin. St. John then recorded another album, Jumble Queen, for Chrysalis Records in 1974. She emigrated to Greenwich Village in 1976 and virtually disappeared from the public eye for over 20 years. She appeared at a Nick Drake tribute concert in New York in 1999, performing "Northern Sky" and "One of These Things First". She toured Japan in 2006 with the minimalist French musician Colleen.
Aside from work under her own name, Bridget St John has also recorded with Mike Oldfield (on Amarok), Kevin Ayers and Robin Frederick. In 2007 she reunited with Kevin Ayers to record on his album The Unfairground in New York. They duetted on the song "Baby Come Home".

#777Bridget St John (born Bridget Hobbs, 4 October 1946, South London) is a British singer and songwriter, best known for the three albums she recorded between 1969 and 1972 for John Peel's Dandelion label. Peel produced her debut album Ask Me No Questions. She also recorded a large number of BBC Radio and Peel sessions and toured regularly on the UK college and festival circuit. Her popularity peaked in 1974 when she was voted fifth most popular female singer in that year's Melody Maker readers poll.
An accomplished guitar player, she credits John Martyn as her guitar mentor.
The second album Songs for the Gentle Man, was produced by Ron Geesin. St. John then recorded another album, Jumble Queen, for Chrysalis Records in 1974. She emigrated to Greenwich Village in 1976 and virtually disappeared from the public eye for over 20 years. She appeared at a Nick Drake tribute concert in New York in 1999, performing "Northern Sky" and "One of These Things First". She toured Japan in 2006 with the minimalist French musician Colleen.
Aside from work under her own name, Bridget St John has also recorded with Mike Oldfield (on Amarok), Kevin Ayers and Robin Frederick. In 2007 she reunited with Kevin Ayers to record on his album The Unfairground in New York. They duetted on the song "Baby Come Home".
She was described by John Peel as "the best lady singer-songwriter in the country".