In celebration of Dave Peggy's 60th birthday, Dave Pegg has released this limited collection (2000 copies) of his musical career covering the last 44 years. Over 70 tracks on four CDs with a 100 page booklet.
Nigel Schofield, of Free Reed box set fame, and Dave Pegg have been working for the last eighteen months to compile this retrospective 4 CD box set, for 30th July 2007 release on on Matty Grooves Records.
The box has a cribbage board theme and features 26 previously unreleased tracks drawn from Peggy's extensive career, featuring various Fairport Convention line ups, Jethro Tull, The GPs, The Ian Campbell Folk Group, The Dylan Project, Richard Thompson and Beth Neilson Chapman.
Peggy has a huge discography and amongst over 80 tracks, we go from Dave playing on his first ever recording session up to a track from his recent duo album with PJ Wright. Tracks we hope to feature include rareties from Don Bilston, The Leesiders, Marc Ellington, The Exception, Excalibur, Steve Ashley, Steve Tilston, Julianne Regan, Mike Heron, Nick Drake, Dan Arbraz, Ralph McTell, Murray Head, The Uglys, The Crawdaddys, annA rydeR, Beryl Marriott, Bob Fox, The Dave Peace Quartet and Simon Nicol.
The titles of each disc are taken from scores in the game of cribbage. |