Gathering the threads : fifty years of stuff

"The first CD of this beautifully presented triple-disc set starts by charting her early years, taking in the home taping of Improvisation, written with Richard Thompson in 1966, and her post-Fairport explorations with Giles, Giles & Fripp ... Dyble's remarkable career has been characterised by unlikely and surprising collaborations, many of which are assembled on Disc Two ... The final disc brings things up to date with a couple of selections from her hit 2009 album Talking With Strangers (with Tim Bowness guesting); her fine recent work on 2013's Flow And Change; and the track Radio Waves, which, thanks to the presence of Jackie McAuley, is the nearest we're likely to get to a Trader Horne reunion. Finishing with a lovely live version of If I Had A Ribbon Bow, this is a fine anthology, obtainable via Dyble's website, that charts the journey of a lady who's never shied from the leftfield".

"She may be praised as a national treasure now, but only core followers were interested in what Judy Dyble`s been doing in the time when her name didn't grace the music press pages. And here's a reward for the aficionados' loyalty: compiled and issued by the singer herself, this 3CD-box offers a genuine continuity with a fantastic selection of Dyble's album fare, rarities previously scattered across limited editions and collaborative efforts, and recordings that haven't seen the light of the day before. More so, it reveals Judy as an intrepid experimentalist as well as traditionalist".

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