Christine's Vocal vs. Sandy Denny

[michelej1]

[Excerpt from a Herald Scotland article about Sandy Denny]

http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-e...nny.2013075255

Denny wrote and recorded Who Knows Where the Time Goes when she was 20 years old. Let me say that again. She was 20 years old. Maybe you'd have to be that young to write a line like “I have no thought of time”. And yet, it's a song that, as the title implies, knows all too well how quickly it passes. In short, it's a sad, gorgeous meditation on time and other thieves (as Joni Mitchell once said), sung in a voice pure and true.

Why do I like it so much? That voice perhaps. One of my problems with Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie was always that her vocals seemed too clean for me. Denny's isn’t that different but maybe where McVie's singing has a cool, detached sheen, Denny's, whilst clear, is also rich in feeling. "This voice is bell-like, only bearing the faintest patina of an oor-aargh yodel, the voice of Tradition un-clotted by Style: unmistakeably, the voice of a human being, not a chunky jumper," Nick Coleman wrote in the NME IN 1986.