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.

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1Sparrowpit
2Song for The waterden widow
3I Don't Know If I Can Take It
4Some Kind of Beautiful
5Last Goodnight
6Curious and Woolly
7Want to Be With You
8Jumblequeen
9Sweet Painted Lady
10Long long time
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12Bumper to Bumper
13Grow
14Nancy Alice (Later)*
15Just Like a Woman (Battered Ornaments Version)*
16Little Song (Take 2)*

Disc: 2

1Castaway
2Chamille
3Make-Me-Whole
4Jealous Jailer
5I Need It Sometimes
6Best I Can
7Maybe If I Write a Letter
8Crazy Heart
9Feel My Love
10Song for John
11You Make It All Right
12Safe Place
13Talk to Me
14Manhattan madhatters
15One Night Wonder
16Catch a Falling Star
17Flying for Now

Disc: 3

1Moody
2Easy Come Easy Go
3Curious and Woolly (New York Version)*
4Castaway (New York Simpler Version)*
5What Am I Supposed to Do (New York 1976)*
6Some Kind of Beautiful (New York Rock Version)*
7I Need It Sometimes (Roxy Recorders Version)*
8Face to Face (Roxy Recorders Version)*
9Come Up and See Me Sometime
10Keep You in Touch*
11Talk to Me (Roxy Recorders Version)*
12Crazy Heart (Unknown Version)*
13Feel My Love (Roxy Recorders Version)*
14Help Him Through It (Roxy Recorders Version)*
15Flying for Now (Unknown Version)*
16Sunnyside Up (Roxy Recorders Version)*
17Curious and Woolly (Right Track Version)*