Sunday, October 1st at 8 pm
Bridget St. John
with DJ Robert McNeill
Ergot Records
32 E. 2nd St.
New York, NY 10003
SOLD OUT
In 1969, legendary BBC DJ John Peel founded Dandelion Records to release the debut LP by Bridget St. John. Produced by Peel and featuring John Martyn on second guitar, Ask Me No Questions would be the first of three astonishing folk records for the label by the English guitarist and singer-songwriter, possessed with a husky voice that might evoke that of Nico’s if not for its generous warmth and emanation from a place of intimacy and connectedness. Still, St. John’s is surely a Sunday morning music, one that finds calm and delight in life’s elemental cycles. Her sage mantras, both original and borrowed, have the power to be at once cathartic and gently enlightening. Alongside ageless themes of love and loss, her songs explore a city/country dialectic, finding a pastoral tranquility within urban life that can prove especially therapeutic for New Yorkers on the grind. Indeed, after recording a fourth album for Chrysalis in 1974, St. John moved to Greenwich Village in 1976 and has kept a relatively low profile ever since. In addition to her own music, St. John appears on Kevin Ayers’ Shooting at the Moon, Michael Chapman’s Deal Gone Down, the Nick Drake covers compilation Green Leaves, and, most recently, CS + Kreme’s Orange. She is absolutely a peer to each of these artists, a member of the continuum of great British folk masters, and we’re honored to be hosting her at the shop.