Dana Gillespie - Box Of Surprises (RSD25): Vinyl LP
Artist: 
Dana Gillespie

Box Of Surprises (RSD25): Vinyl LP

£22.99

Release date: 12 April, 2025

Dana Gillespie’s second long player and first UK album Box of Surprises is being reissued on vinyl for the first time.

Tracklist:

Side A

  1. Box Of Surprises
  2. Like I'm A Clown
  3. Taffy
  4. When Darkness Fell
  5. For David, The Next Day
  6. If You're Dreaming

Side B

  1. Foolish Seasons
  2. Grecian Ode
  3. By Chasing Dreams
  4. I Was A Book
  5. Describing You
  6. I Would Cry

Dana was at the vanguard of the immerging female singer-songwriter scene and Box of Surprises is notable for being the first entirely self-penned album by a British female artist to be released in the UK on a major label. There were other distinguished British women publishing and singing their own songs at this point including fellow Decca labelmates Twinkle and Marianne Faithfull and in the wider folk / rock scene Sandy Denny and Christine McVie, but none of these artists had as yet released an album of entirely self-penned material. On the indie scene Bridget St John released her self penned debut ‘Ask Me No Questions’ around the same time.

Formats: 
Vinyl LP
Label: 
Decca
Cat#:
7536426