Hallo and welcome to here!

Well here I am. After all this time. Still singing, although I did stop for a while. But that was only for 30 years or so – a mere blink of an eye…

I have attempted to squash the last 50 odd years into a meaningful short biography. Hah! There is loads I have left out because I didn’t want to ramble. But I shall add stuff from time to time as it occurs to me. If you like. Please feel free to contact me and remind me of what I’ve forgotten. I like ‘do you remembers’ and ‘what was that thens’ .

If I haven’t credited anyone that should be credited for photos etc. please contact me and I will do so.

Please sign my guestbook!

Love

Judy

Update: 23rd April 2008

Oooh! here's my blog!

Yes that's right, I have just decided to start writing my own blog!

blog.judydyble.com - The Witterings

THE WHORL
Talking Elephant Records (TECD094) - Release date 24th July 2006

Tracks: Starlight, Breathe the Same Air, The Teller, I Talk To The Wind, Seventh Whorl, Road To Somewhere, The Last Kiss, Waggle Wiggle, Forever Shining

Musicians:
James Asher – hammer dulcimer
Paul Chousmer – organ solos
Robert Fripp – soundscape and lead guitar
Simon House – violins and keyboards and string arrangement for ‘I Talk To The Wind’
Dave (Doc Mahone) Russell – banjo and bouzouki
Martin Walker – bells, chimes and pangs

And from Astralasia
Marc Swordfish – drums, percussion, keyboards and everything else
Steve ‘B’ - saxophones
Peter Pracownik – acoustic electric and slide guitar
Phoebe Thomasson – flute and backing vocals on ‘Road To Somewhere’
Giles Bolton – backing vocals on ‘Road To Somewhere’

Produced by Marc Swordfish

Right then, here it is. CD no. 3. After years of nothing- three come along at once. Well almost at once……… Another revisited song from ages gone by, two songs remixed and more new ones

‘Starlight’ just keeps going round and round
‘Breathe the Same Air’ perhaps you never really lose touch as long as you keep breathing
‘The Teller’ watching the enrapt audience at a concert of a singer
‘I Talk To The Wind’ I loved singing this all those years ago with GGFMcD &D and I loved singing it again
‘Seventh Whorl’ an uneasy song about the frustration of being told to take things slowly
‘Road To Somewhere’ autobiographical this one- my ‘road’ song
‘The Last Kiss’ Ah. Bittersweet. Still heartsore……..
‘Waggle Wiggle’ Yes, but it’s backwards this time
‘Forever Shining’ A different mix. This time with soundscape, dulcimer and thunder

So what shall I do next? I wonder what will turn up? Wait and see………………

Click on the links for samples of the new album, Whorl.

Breathe the Same Air   MP3 STREAM   MP3 Road to Somewhere   MP3 STREAM   MP3 Forever Shining MP3 STREAM MP3

SPINDLE
Talking Elephant Records (TECD084) - Release date 13th February 2006

Tracks: See Emily Play, Final Hour, Misty Morning, Fingest, Honeysweet, Shining, Darkness To Light, Wiggle Waggle, Thank You My Dear

So - here it is then. The next adventure. ‘Spindle’ first, then the complementary ‘Whorl’ to be released later. One song from my far distant past and eight songs written the day before yesterday…

‘Emily’ : First heard in the days of the last gas-lamp lighters of 1968. I have sung it for the first time here all up-to-date and terrific. Dance away on………
‘Final Hour’ : Oh dearie me. Love and death eh?
‘Misty Morning’ : The joys of experience
‘Fingest’ : A song lost and found
‘Honeysweet’ : Tangled in sweet magic
‘Shining’ : Lost for words, I am… With Robert’s guitar and soundscape
‘Darkness to Light’ : Grows and changes
‘Wiggle Waggle’ : Well. Yes. I know. Very odd but something else
‘Thank You My Dear’ : Been there, done that. I don’t think I’ll go down that road again……

Anyway, it’s really good to be singing again and with such talented musicians as well. How fortunate can I get? And the sheer pleasure of listening to the songs grow from their early beginnings to their finished ends was such a jolly thing !

Click on the links for samples of the album, Spindle.

Final Hour   MP3 STREAM   MP3 Fingest   MP3 STREAM   MP3 Honeysweet MP3 STREAM MP3 Shining   MP3 STREAM   MP3

I really hope you will enjoy listening to these snippets and that you will want to hear more.

Love
Judy

Some histories are chequered. Judy Dyble’s is patterned, a woven tapestry of music, tinted with the psychedelic colours of the Sixties and the darker tones of the present day.

Born in London, Judy grew up amid the folk revival and the burgeoning London rock scene, becoming the lead singer with Fairport Convention in 1967. She made one album with them - Fairport Convention and recorded a single, If I Had A Ribbon Bow. A recent TV documentary on Richard Thompson shows that early Fairport line-up with Judy singing.

Judy went on to record with Giles, Giles and Fripp. Check out their album, The Brondesbury Tapes , for jazz-meets-rock-meets folk .In 1969 Judy formed Trader Horne with Jackie McAuley. They recorded a delightfully whimsical album - Morning Way - before breaking up.

Through the Seventies and Eighties Judy worked with her husband Simon on their tape-duplicating business in Oxfordshire, venturing out occasionally to sing with Fairport at their annual festival in the village of Cropredy.

Now she has emerged into the limelight again, this time with producer Marc Swordfish, who has worked on recordings by Berlin and Guns and Roses, to name but two names. The result of their collaboration is an exciting and unusual album that combines their talents.

Live musicians and synthesised sounds make up a backing to Judy’s delicate and airy vocals in an eclectic combination of different musical genres. Old songs, new songs and a Brian Patten poem are treated to mind-expanding arrangements that bring out the full range of Judy’s writing and vocals.

Ian Maun

Click on the links for samples of this amazing album, Enchanted Garden.

Summer Gathers - Track 1 WMA STREAM MP3 STREAM RM STREAM WMA MP3 RM Rivers Flow - Track 3 WMA STREAM MP3 STREAM RM STREAM WMA MP3 RM Star Crazy - Track 8 WMA STREAM MP3 STREAM RM STREAM WMA MP3 RM