Here's a real little treasure that not many know about. Duncan Browne was an English singer-songwriter who started off in a very laidback psychedelic folk vein, releasing a debut album in 1968 that might be described as Nick Drake singing Chaucer poems over a baroque orchestra. Or maybe not. Some of it is a little OTT, but this particular track is a lovely little pop song that really should have been a hit.
His music took a much more mainstream turn during the '70s and he might be slightly better known for some of that, such as his recordings with Metro, whose "Criminal World" was covered on Bowie's Let's Dance album. I don't find much of his work in that period very interesting.
He died in the early '90s, shortly after the debut was re-released to apparently little more notice than had greeted it the first time around.
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