Box Of Surprises (RSD25): Vinyl LP

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
Side B
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.