And, imho, Eleanor McEvoy is today's Irish Joni
Check out her four studio albums
Yola is the latest, and still only available in Ireland :-(
brei (of magsnbrei)
Ian Scott wrote:
>
> Bert Jansch was the British Dylan; Sandy Denny was the British Joni.
> Chilling - what might have been.
>
> >Another song that has since come to mind is Bert Jansch's "Where Did
> >My Life Go?" I haven't heard Jansch's original, but the song appears in
> >a chilling version by Eleanor McEvoy on last year's two-disc British
> >compilation People on the Highway: A Bert Jansch Encomium (Market
> >Square). The song is about someone whose life is slipping away in a
> >fog of drugs and alcohol. The liner notes say that Jansch wrote the
> >song about Sandy Denny.
--
After twenty-three years you'd think I could find
A way to let you know somehow
That I want to see your smiling face
Forty-five years from now.
--Stan Rogers
