Bridget St John - Songs For The Gentle ManThe English singer and guitarist Bridget St John was introduced to the bourgeoning London folk scene by guitarist John Martyn, her rich and unusually deep voice being highly distinctive. BBC Radio disc jockey John Peel became one of her greatest champions, and when Peel formed the Dandelion label in 1969 with former Elektra record plugger Clive Selwood, the original intention was to issue St Johns music. Following debut album Ask Me No Questions,

intensely lived

'The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall' was the band's seventh studio album and their first for Beggars Banquet

and gave the music their own distinct spin

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selling over 1 million copies and earning a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album in 1996

Forster himself has been fully involved on this expanded reissue contributing new liner notes and newly unearthed photographs

while fighting an industry that was only marginally less machismo-driven than the mafia (and in some cases involved characters from both worlds)

Jeremy Earl and company took their time with what came next

the download coad includes four bonus tracks

released theIndividual Thought Patterns album (the follow-up to their watershed Human release) in 1993

using the songwriting and guitar style of Mike Polizze to come up with a quicksilver sound touched on only briefly on previous records

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