Judith Aileen Dyble, better known as Judy Dyble (pronounced Die-bull), born 13 February 1949 is an award-winning British singer-songwriter, most notable for being a vocalist and a founding member of Fairport Convention and Trader Horne. In addition, she and Ian McDonald joined and recorded several tracks with Giles, Giles and Fripp, later becoming King Crimson. These tracks surfaced on the Brondesbury Tapes CD and Metaphormosis vinyl LP.Dyble was born at the Middlesex Hospital, Central London. Her first band was Judy and The Folkmen (which existed between 1964 and 1966). They made homemade demo recordings, none of which were released, but some are included on a mooted anthology of Dyble's career. Universal/Sanctuary set a release date in 2007 for this. But, the release was cancelled when Sanctuary was taken over by Universal. She then became the original vocalist with Fairport Convention from 1967 to 1968. Ashley 'Tyger' Hutchings asked her to sing and play with Richard Thompson, Simon Nicol and him in November 1966 in some of the various band incarnations. They were all part of jug-bands and anything that needed a female vocal, mainly because of their reluctance to sing. This became the nucleus of Fairport Convention, initially with Shaun Frater as drummer and later Martin Lamble. The group recorded their first album with her, their repertoire at the time consisting of both American singer-songwriter works plus originals. The first single was a cover of a 1930s American song, "If I Had a Ribbon Bow". The band covered and re-worked numerous American recordings with the band members choosing some tracks to work with from manager Joe Boyd's record collection. The band also picked up on the works of Joni Mitchell before she was known in the UK and covered two of her songs on the first Fairport album, which was self-titled. Wikipedia
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