The Notes and the Words: A Collection of Demos and Rarities

The Notes and the Words: A Collection of Demos and Rarities

Album
Label Island Release date Format 4×CD Country 🌍 Europe Discogs https://www.discogs.com/release/4125643

Tracklist 295:52

CD 1

1 Blues Run the Game (home demo) 3:29
2 Soho (home demo) 3:13
3 It Ain’t Me Babe (home demo) 3:40
4 East Virginia (home demo) 3:24
5 Geordie (home demo) 3:23
6 In Memory (The Tender Years) (home demo) 2:32
7 I Love My True Love (home demo) 2:30
8 Ethusel (home demo) 4:51
9 Carnival (home demo) 3:10
10 They Don’t Seem to Know You (home demo) 2:23
11 Gerrard Street (home demo) 1:59
12 Seven Virgins (home demo) 2:56
13 A Little Bit of Rain (home demo) 2:23
14 Go Your Own Way My Love (home demo) 4:01
15 Cradle Song (home demo) 2:24
16 Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (home demo) 4:31
17 Motherless Children (home demo) 2:31
18 You Never Wanted Me Alex Campbell and His Friends 3:21
19 Milk and Honey 4:30
20 She Moves Through the Fair (acoustic version) 5:02
21 Fotheringay (acoustic version) 3:06
22 Now and Then (demo) 3:47
23 Autopsy (demo) 4:27

CD 2

1 Are the Judges Sane? 3:18
2 Mr. Lacey (alternative take with Sandy lead vocal) Fairport Convention 2:55
3 The Ballad of Easy Rider (‘Liege & Lief’ outtake) Fairport Convention 4:54
4 A Sailor’s Life (first version without Swarb) Fairport Convention 11:22
5 Come All Ye (take 1) Fairport Convention 5:25
6 Matty Groves (take 1) Fairport Convention 7:45
7 The Way I Feel (original version) Fotheringay 4:04
8 The Sea (studio demo) Fotheringay 4:53
9 Winter Winds (studio demo) Fotheringay 2:24
10 The Pond and the Stream (studio demo) Fotheringay 3:07
11 John the Gun Fotheringay 5:06
12 Late November (Joe Boyd mix) 4:32
13 Next Time Around (demo) 5:05
14 Lord Bateman (demo) 6:14

CD 3

1 The Optimist (demo) 4:30
2 Wretched Wilbur (demo) 2:36
3 Crazy Lady Blues (demo) 3:31
4 North Star Grassman and the Ravens (BBC TV ‘One in Ten’ live performance) 3:23
5 Blackwaterside (alternative take) 4:18
6 It’ll Take a Long Time (demo) 4:39
7 For Nobody to Hear (original version) 4:34
8 Quiet Joys of Brotherhood (demo) 2:45
9 The Lady (demo) 2:59
10 Bushes and Briars (demo) 3:52
11 The Music Weaver (demo) 3:05
12 No End (alternative take) 10:29
13 Solo (alternative take without overdub) 4:28
14 Whispering Grass (studio demo) 4:14
15 Friends (alternative take) 3:31
16 Dark the Night (alternative take) 4:36
17 Until the Real Thing Comes Along (studio demo) 3:24

CD 4

1 The King and Queen of England (home demo, take 1) 3:08
2 After Halloween (home demo) 3:00
3 Take Away the Load (home demo) 1:38
4 Stranger to Himself (home demo) 2:17
5 By the Time It Gets Dark (home demo) 3:22
6 Down in the Flood (live) Fairport Convention 3:16
7 Knocking on Heaven’s Door (live) Fairport Convention 4:26
8 Like an Old Fashioned Waltz (live) Fairport Convention 4:10
9 Dawn (alternative version) 4:09
10 One More Chance (alternative version) 3:45
11 What Is True? (studio demo) 3:17
12 No More Sad Refrains (live ‘Marc Time’) 3:12
13 I Wish I Was a Fool for You (original ‘Gold Dust’ album version) 4:27
14 Gold Dust (original ‘Gold Dust’ album version) 4:17
15 Candle in the Wind (piano version) 4:31
16 One Way Donkey Ride (acoustic version) 3:54
17 I’m a Dreamer (alternative take without strings) 4:59
18 Still Waters Run Deep (acoustic version) 2:53
19 Full Moon (featuring David Swarbrick violin solo) 4:30
20 Moments (acoustic version) 3:42
21 Makes Me Think of You (demo) 2:46