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Just Another Diamond Day

Vashti Bunyan · 1970

• Scores: Noise 1, Unease 1, Complexity 1 (each 1 to 5)
• Genre: Folk, Psychedelic folk
• Mood: gentle, wistful, fragile
• Sound: soft acoustic guitar, hushed vocals, recorders and strings, pastoral

Just Another Diamond Day is Vashti Bunyan's debut album, written on a journey through Scotland by horse and wagon with Robert Lewis. Joe Boyd produced it at Sound Techniques in London in November and December 1969, finishing it over three days, with Bunyan's voice and acoustic guitar joined by Robin Williamson's fiddle, whistle and Irish harp, Dave Swarbrick's fiddle and mandolin, and Robert Kirby's string and recorder arrangements. The songs are short and quiet, and it came out in December 1970. Reissues from 2000 onwards revived interest in Bunyan and led to a follow-up, Lookaftering, in 2005.

Track list

1. Diamond Day (1:47)
2. Glow Worms (2:16)
3. Lily Pond (1:24)
4. Timothy Grub (3:15)
5. Where I Like to Stand (2:21)
6. Swallow Song (2:16)
7. Window Over the Bay (1:47)
8. Rose Hip November (2:27)
9. Come Wind Come Rain (2:07)
10. Hebridean Sun (1:13)
11. Rainbow River (3:22)
12. Trawlerman's Song (1:56)
13. Jog Along Bess (3:36)
14. Iris's Song for Us (1:33)