Name: From There / To Here – UK / US Recordings 1974-1982
Brand: Bridget St John

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CRCDBOX129

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Limited edition

Release date

2022-08-26

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Cherry Red (ADA)

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5013929112995

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3 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Bridget St John

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Folk

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Cherry Red

Bridget St John is a British singer and songwriter, best known for her three albums recorded between 1969 and 1972 on John Peel's Dandelion label. Her debut album, Ask Me No Questions, was produced by Peel himself. With her accomplished guitar playing skills, she credits John Martyn as her guitar mentor. St John's popularity peaked in 1974 when she was voted fifth most popular female singer in that year's Melody Maker readers poll.

After recording the second album Songs for the Gentle Man with producer Ron Geesin, St John released another album called Jumble Queen under Chrysalis Records in 1974. She then moved to Greenwich Village in 1976 and remained out of the public eye for over two decades. However, she made a comeback at a Nick Drake tribute concert in New York in 1999 where she performed "Northern Sky" and "One of These Things First". In 2006, she toured Japan alongside minimalist French musician Colleen.

In addition to her solo work, Bridget St John has collaborated with various artists including Mike Oldfield on his album Amarok, Kevin Ayers, and Robin Frederick. She reunited with Kevin Ayers in 2007 to record on his album The Unfairground in New York where they duetted on the song "Baby Come Home". Regarded by John Peel as "the best lady singer-songwriter in the country", Bridget

Cherry Red is a British label that was founded by Iain McNay in 1978. Also known as Cherry Red Records, this label has become associated with the company Music and Media Group. With the label code LC 6730, Cherry Red has made a name for itself in the music industry. It is important to note that this label should not be confused with the US label of the same name.

3CD Set charting Bridget St. John’s post-Dandelion career, 1974-1982. Features 17 previously unreleased tracks! Including alternate versions and previously unheard compositions. 

Following three classic albums on John Peel’s Dandelion imprint in the early 1970s, Bridget St. John found herself seeking new outlets and a new path as that label ceased operations in 1972. The album Jumblequeen followed on Chrysalis, and after a number of other possible new options came and went, Bridget found herself drawn towards New York City, and in 1976 relocated there and began to move within the city’s underground folk music and singer-songwriter circuit.

What followed was a wealth of new material that fed her trademark sound into the melting pot of New York’s musical landscape, pulling in different influences and sounds, different musicians and different approaches to songs which were explored on a number of recording sessions. The recent rediscovery of Bridget’s tape archive has unearthed numerous recordings captured during that very fertile period in her career, and the artist herself has hand-picked 17 previously unheard highlights, presented here alongside her own contextual sleevenotes.

Also including Jumblequeen and 1995’s Take The 5ifth (which comprises material from that same New York era), From There / To Here at last provides a definite overview of the decade that followed Bridget St. John’s association with John Peel and Dandelion, and is a perfect companion to our previous box set covering those years.

From There / To Here – UK / US Recordings 1974-1982

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