Amazing.
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This one especially for @chrisj1948 - some of it is, I agree, painful on the ear, I’d like to think the vocals deliberately so in places, but some of it I rate highly - this track in particular, a pleasant short steel string guitar and tenor(?) recorder piece.
The Unquiet Grave is very nicely done, and The Astrologer has some excellent steel string acoustic work again.
Very much an album to have the skip button handy when playing 
Also, crumhorns make me smile - crumhorns are to oboe as electric guitar is to Spanish guitar, and I don’t always like electric guitar either…
Alright, alright, it’s 5 am, I’ll go to bed now zzz
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New on Qobuz. HR. Shortage of Baroque albums amongst today’s releases, so I selected this. Music by Mendelssohn and Schumann. A pleasant live performance but, for me, unexceptional.
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Mixed sources. I read today of the death of Judy Dyble, the singer on the first Fairport Convention album, famous for knitting onstage. She was replaced by Sandy Denny before the album was released. This was the 1975 re-release of the album. I had it but it was lost in the great cellar flood of 2004 and never replaced,
She had some success later as part of the duo Trader Horne. This was their sole 1970 album. At the time I liked the song ‘Sheena’, and now have the album as an mp3.
After many years away, she returned to recording about 15 years ago. Two years ago I posted her latest album. I cannot remember exactly what I said, but I fear it was less than complimentary 
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These were the guys you had to like to hang with my gang growing up. Still hits the spot so many years later
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Picked up another Bear Family box, yes, like many here, I have a problem. I ordered this one, one of the last on the market, from Jazz Messengers in Spain about three months ago. It was lost in the either. Jazz Messengers were great, they did what they could to track the package and eventually refunded my money. Just after the refund, of-course, it showed up. I obviously reached out and paid them. Great company and I was proud to do business with them.
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