| Let No Man Steal Your Thyme | 
| Artist: Shelagh McDonald
Label: Sanctuary
Category: Music
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 2,032
Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5050749410658
ASIN: B0006OL5HW
Release Date: February 26, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Hullo Stranger (Live) | | • | Street Walking Blues (Live) | | • | Mirage | | • | Look Over The Hills And Far Away | | • | Crusoe | | • | Waiting For The Wind To Rise | | • | Ophelia's Song (Version 1) | | • | Richmond | | • | Let No Man Steal Your Thyme | | • | Peacock Lady | | • | Silk And Leather | | • | You Know You Can't Lose | | • | Ophelia's Song (Version 2) | | • | Jesus Is Just Right | | • | Book Of Rhyme | | • | What More Can I Say | | • | City's Cry (Demo 2) | | • | City's Cry (Demo 2) | | • | Rod's Song (Demo) | | • | Stargazer (False Start) | | • | Stargazer (Demo) |
Disc 2
| • | Rod's Song | | • | Liz's Song | | • | Lonely King | | • | City's Cry | | • | Dowie Dens Of Yarrow (Version 1) | | • | Baby Go Slow | | • | Canadian Man | | • | Good Times | | • | Odyssey | | • | Stargazer | | • | Road To Paradise | | • | Sweet Sunlight | | • | Spin (Version 1) | | • | Rainy Night Blues | | • | Spin (Version 2) | | • | Dowie Dens Of Yarrow (False Start) | | • | Dowie Dens Of Yarrow (Version 2) |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 10
Wonderfully evocative collection of beautiful songs. 5 star+ August 7, 2010
Dr. G. Austin (Black Country UK)
I bought the vinyl in the 70s and loved them. I only knew 1 other person with these records (I told him to get them) and could never understand why she wasn't on everyone's lips like Sandy Denny, say. Now after 30 odd years her music is available again.
I can't hope to emulate the detailed analyses by some of the other reviewers so will just add my enthusiastic recommendation to listen to her songs and I hope you enjoy them as much as me.
 Lost jewels recovered June 5, 2010
Glynne Callaghan (Northern England)
For years the tracks on a couple of folk comps that I have on vinyl By Shelagh where the only signs of her earthly existence.These had whetted my appetite for more and like others I assumed the Artist was probably playing to very small audiences in the backroom upstairs or down in the folk cellar as they often do but her albums had long been out of print and had not come across my path in the second hand bargain bin/charity shops of time.
But what of Shelagh well it looked like she had disappeared of the face of the earth or so it seemed unlike Sandy Denny Nick Drake or Jackson C Frank this story has a happy ending after the record company realeased this compliation which encompassess both here albums the tracks from the folk club compilation albums and John Peel session etc and more she turned up to have been living a normal life outside of the music biz like Syd Barrett She has reacted badly to some evil mojo in the doors of perception dept and here parents wisely, it now seems took her back home and she travelled around with her partner and forgot about the music I am still not sure if she has peformed since but the music here reflects the summer of that Seventies folkrock sound that fans of Pentangle ,Fairport,Tudor lodge ,Trees et al would find pleasing
the early tracks recored in the late sixties have a bluesy fell to them whereas the later tracks saunter towards a more poppy rock sound as the seventies lurched on.
Fans of The Mumfords ,Fleet foxes (as am I too now)will also find much in this for them too.
The Title track should sell the collection alone but there also plenty of other gems Like Crusoe where voice and piano take us on a journey across the sea...
Alot of the Second album goes into Joni's Blue territory (No bad thing given my love of that album ) is padded out with demo versions but again Canadian Man Highlights the sparse Voice /Piano combination equisitely Yet Stargazer grandiose by comparison has a choral backing with strings which adds a great atomsphere to the track.
Good times has some sax that reminds me of Gerry Rafferty in His pomp...
faults well some of tracks are demo so it has that work in progress feeling but only very slightly and the fact that the she only made these recordings but less is more Like the aforementioned Jackson C Frank who really only made One
true album Nick Drake and Sandy Denny made only a handful of recordings themselves compared with the Joni's and Joan Baez's, Bob Dylan, Neil Young etc..
If You like the above mentioned artists and remember the seventies context in which it is set then this album wont
disappoint.
An Absolute Bargain January 29, 2010
Child of the 60's (Winnipeg, Canada)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
An absolute bargain for a double CD of excellent music. A number of reviewers have commented on who she sounds like. Well, that's always a bit of a Mug's game, isn't it? - she sounds like herself. But I'll play - to me, on many of the selections, she reminded me of Judy Collins in her prime.
two albums + demos and live cuts September 14, 2009
brazuka (Curitiba, Brazil)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Castle, 2005, CMDDD 1065, 2 CDs, 68 + 68 minutes
THE SONGS: tracks 1 and 2 recorded live in 1969 (acoustic country blues)
Tracks 3 to 13 from the "Shelagh McDonald Album" (B&C 1970)
Tracks 14 to 21 demos from the sessions for the first album
Tracks 1 to 10 (Disc 2) from the album "Stargazer" (B&C 1971)
Tracks 11 to 17 demos and two songs intended for the third album -
"Sweet Sunlight" and "Rainy Night Blues"
THE SOUND: very good remastering.
The second album is much better than the first.
HIGHLIGHTS: "Rod's Song" (guitar and voice), "Lonely King" (piano and voice)
"Odyssey" (very similar to Fairport Convention with Sandy Denny)
There is a good booklet, with photos and memorabilia.
Good value for 5.38
Hidden gems February 22, 2009
Mr. S. Dodson (Ramsgate, UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm not sure how I stumbled upon this cd! I think an amazon recommendation. I read the reviews and was in. I find it hard to believe it's taken me this long to find her, 38 years. I mean I read encyclopedias of music! I sat listened, was completely dissilusioned by the first two live tracks! but hung on to hear the revelation of the first LP! WOW! great songs! fab voice! Some of these songs are to die for. Although not all written by her. Shelagh's songs are the strongest here.
By cd two the songs are all hers and all the better for it. Not a Sandy or a Joni or a Nick Drake but very much her own voice. If you like these people this cd is a must. a great supporting cast also. The great piano of Keith Tippett, Danny Thompson on bass, Richard Thompson on guitar, wonderful string arrangements by Robert Kirby (of Nick Drake fame). The bonus tracks are really for completists! Sadly I am one of those. On first listen I was going for five stars, second four because of the out-takes, and ultimately on third listen, well three listens to a double cd in two days. there are enough hidden gems here to satisfy, so I go five.
Shelagh McDonald here shows so much promise and talent. the second cd is the better one! Who knows what may had been had there been no vanishing act! She was getting better and better.
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