BRIANMAXINEWITH SANDY DENNY RARE LP RIBBON 0F

	£		47
	$		62

RARE BRIAN MAXINE LP WITH SANDY DENNY AND MEMBERS OF FAIRPORT CONVENTION. TITLE RIBBON OF STEEL. LABEL COLUMBIA. CATALOGUE NUMBER SCX6575. YEAR OF RELEASE 1975. THIS ULTRA RARE ITEM PROBABLY REPRESENTS THE HARDEST TO FIND RECORDINGS FEATURING THE WONDROUS VOICE OF SANDY DENNY. WHAT MAKES THIS LP EVEN MORE U7NIQUE IS THAT IT ALSO FEATURES THE VOICE OF LINDA PETERS BETTER KNOWN AS LINDA THOMPSON WIFE OF RICHARD THOMPSON. BRIANS BACKING GROUP ALSO FEATURES JERRY DONAHUE ON LEAD GUITAR AND TREVOR LUCAS EX ECLECTION ON GITAR AND VOCALS. PLUS FAIRPORT CONVENTION STALWARTS DAVE MATTACKS DRUMS. DAVE PEGG BASS. AND DAVE SWARBRICK EX IAN CAMPBELL FOLK GROUP ON FIDDLE MANDOLIN AND VOCALS. THIS IS THE MAIN BACKING GROUP AND THEY ARE AUGMENTED BY REG GUEST AND DON LOWESS ON PIANO. MARKLOYD PERCUSSION. HARRY PITCH HARMONICA AND ON STEEL GUITAR PETER WILLSHER WHO DESERVES SPECIAL PRAISE AS HIS PLAYING IS UP THERE WITH THE LIKES OF RED RHODES. SNEAKY PETE KLEINOW. LLOYD GREEN AND BUDDY CAGE. AND WHAT OF BRIAN MAXINE... PROBABLY THE MOST UNLIKELY COUNTRY FOLK ROCK STAR TO HAVE GRACED ABBEY ROAD WITH HIS PRESCENCE. IN THE 1970S MAXINE WAS MORE LIKELY TO BE HANGING ABOUT WITH THE LIKES OF MICK McMANUS AND JACKIE PALLO THAN WITH THE LIKES OF SANDY DENNY. STARTING AS A BOXER HE BECAME A PRO WRESTLER AND BECAME BOTH BRITISH WELTEWR AND MIDDLE WEIGHT CHAMP. THEN ENCOURAGED BY HIS PALS IN FAIRPORT CONVENTION HE SWAPPED HIS NAME OF KING OF THE RING FOR A TRANSFORMATION INTO A FINE COUNTRY FOLK ROCK SINGER. ON THIS LP HE CALLS ON THE SONGWRITING TALENTS OF KRIS KRISTOFFERSON. TOM T. HALL. MICKEY NEWBURY. WAYLON JENNINGS. BOBBY BARE AND DWAYNE DETROIT. PLUS THE REAL PIECE DE RESISTANCE IS THE RARE TREVOR LUCAS AND DAVE SWARBRICK SONG PLEASURE AND PAIN. GIVEN THE FAIRPORT CONVENTION BACKING TREATMENT THIS IS ALT COUNTRY 20 YEARS BEFORETHE LIKES OF THE JAYHAWKS AND RYAN ADAMS WHISKEYTOWN SUDDENLY INVENTED THE GENRE. IF YOU WANT FURTHER PROOF OF THIS AFFIRMATION LISTEN TO THE VERSION OF SIX DAYS ON THE ROAD THE DAVE DUDLEY AND FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS CLASSIC. THIS NUMBER ENTHUSES THE SAME KIND OF ROCK AND ROLL ROCKABILLY ABANDON WHICH SANNDY DENNY AND THE FAIRPORT GANG EXHIBITED IN THEIR RECORDINGS ON THE ISLAND LP CLASSIC THE BUNCH. WHILST MANY OF THE OTHER TRACKS EXPLORE SIMILAR AVENUES AS IAN MATTHEWS VENTURED DOWN WITH MATTHEWS SOUTHERN COMFORT. THE PARTICIPATION OF SO MANY MEMBERS OF FAIRP[ORT ON THIS RARE ALBUM MEANS THAT RIBBON OF STAINLESS STEEL BECOMES POSSIBLY THE FIRST AND CERTAINLY THE BEST EVER BRITISH COUNTRY FOLK ROCK LP. MORE A CASE OF AN ALBION COUNTRY BAND THAN THE ACTUAL ALBION COUNTRY BAND OF ASHLEY HUTCHINGS. TRACKS ON THE LP ARE AS FOLLOWS.1.STAINLESS STEEL 2.PLEASE DONT TELL ME. 3. DONT SHE LOOK GOOD.4.ONE OF THESE DAYS. 5.PLEASURE AND PAIN. 6.WEST VIRGINIAN WOMAN.SIDE TWO 1. SURE DIDNT TAKE HIM LONG. 2. PASS ME BY. 3. WOMAN YOU HAVE A FRIEND. 4.HOLD YOU CLOSE IN MY MIND. 5.DATE WITH A HEARTACHE 6. MOBILE BLUES. 7. SIX DAYS ON THE ROAD. THE CONDITION OF THE LP SLEEVE IS GENERALLY EXCELLENT PLUS. THE TITLE ARTIST NAME AND CATALOGUE NUMBER IS VISIBLE ALONG THE BACK SPINE. HOWEVER PLEASE NOTE THAT THE TOP SPINE OF THE COVER SHOWS SIGN OF WEAR ALTHOUGH IT IS NOT SPLIT. THE RCORD ITSELF IS IN EXCELLENT PLUS CONDITION. AS IT IS A DEMONSRATION COPY IT HAS THE EMI FACTORY SAMPLE STICKER ON THE COLUMBIA LOGO ON SIDE TWO. HOWEVER THIS IS MORE THAN COMENSATED BY THE ORIGINAL EMI RECORDS PRESS OFFICE BIOGRAPHY IN EXCELLENT PLUS CONDITION WHICH IS INCLUDED WITH THE LP. BECAUSE OF MAXINES RELUCTANCE TO TOUR WITHOUT THE BACKING OF THE FAIRPORTS AND NEXT TO NO PROMOTION BY EMI THE LP SOLD FEW COPIES SO IT IS A REAL RARE GEM.