from there to here - uk/us recordings 1974-1982

• 3CD SET CHARTING BRIDGET ST. JOHN’S POST-DANDELION CAREER, 1974-1982.
• FEATURES 17 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS! INCLUDING ALTERNATE VERSIONS AND PREVIOUSLY UNHEARD COMPOSITIONS.
• COVERING ‘JUMBLEQUEEN’ AND BRIDGET’S CAREER FOLLOWING HER MOVE TO NEW YORK IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 1970S.
• COMPILED AND CURATED BY BRIDGET ST. JOHN HERSELF.
• INCLUDING HER OWN SLEEVENOTE REMINISCES AND NEVER BEFORE SEEN IMAGERY FROM A FASCINATING AND LITTLE-KNOWN PERIOD IN BRIDGET’S CAREER.

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 Listing:

DISC ONE
JUMBLEQUEEN
• SPARROWPIT
• SONG FOR
THE WATERDEN WIDOW
• I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN TAKE IT
• SOME KIND OF BEAUTIFUL
• LAST GOODNIGHT
• CURIOUS AND WOOLLY
• WANT TO BE WITH YOU
• JUMBLEQUEEN
• SWEET PAINTED LADY
• LONG LONG TIME
FURTHER UK RECORDINGS
• 3DB AUSTRALIA
• BUMPER TO BUMPER
• GROW
• NANCY ALICE (LATER)*
• JUST LIKE A WOMAN (BATTERED ORNAMENTS VERSION)*
• LITTLE SONG (TAKE 2)*
*PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED DISC TWO
TAKE THE 5IFTH
• CASTAWAY
• CHAMILLE
• MAKE-ME-WHOLE
• JEALOUS JAILER
• I NEED IT SOMETIMES
• BEST I CAN
• MAYBE IF I WRITE A LETTER
• CRAZY HEART
• FEEL MY LOVE
• SONG FOR JOHN
• YOU MAKE IT ALL RIGHT
• SAFE PLACE
• TALK TO ME
• MANHATTAN MADHATTERS
• ONE NIGHT WONDER
• CATCH A FALLING STAR
• FLYING FOR NOW
DISC THREE
THE NEW YORK SESSIONS
• MOODY
• EASY COME EASY GO
• CURIOUS AND WOOLLY (NEW YORK VERSION)*
• CASTAWAY (NEW YORK SIMPLER VERSION)*
• WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO (NEW YORK 1976)*
• SOME KIND OF BEAUTIFUL (NEW YORK ROCK VERSION)*
• I NEED IT SOMETIMES (ROXY RECORDERS VERSION)*
• FACE TO FACE (ROXY RECORDERS VERSION)*
• COME UP AND SEE ME SOMETIME
• KEEP YOU IN TOUCH*
• TALK TO ME (ROXY RECORDERS VERSION)*
• CRAZY HEART (UNKNOWN VERSION)*
• FEEL MY LOVE (ROXY RECORDERS VERSION)*
• HELP HIM THROUGH IT (ROXY RECORDERS VERSION)*
• FLYING FOR NOW (UNKNOWN VERSION)*
• SUNNYSIDE UP (ROXY RECORDERS VERSION)*
• CURIOUS AND WOOLLY (RIGHT TRACK VERSION)*
*PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED