JULIE TIPPETTS

Sunset Glow (Remastered Edition) CHERRY RED

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The erstwhile Ms Driscoll’s neglected gem rediscovered. It’s slightly puzzling to reflect on why Julie Tippetts’ name isn’t better known among fans of 70s progressive music. A few years before her solo debut 1969, she had fronted a landmark hit of the late 60s. Maybe the fact that the song in question, a cover of Dylan’s This Wheel’s On Fire, stormed the charts as Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity, is a clue: under her married name her profile was – perhaps deliberately – not maintained. In some ways that’s a shame because her second solo album, from 1975, is a seductive affair, drawing on the jazz stylings she had been exploring with Auger and as a session singer for the likes of Robert Wyatt, Carla Bley and with…

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