IN MEMORY OF JUDY DYBLE
Judy Dyble once told me that although she’d left music behind, music kept on trying to find her. This comment was typical of her self-effacing personality, down-playing her contribution to various line-ups and combinations. In discussing her time with Fairport Convention, a pre-King Crimson Giles, Giles & Fripp, the slow-burning cultish success of Trader Horne or the late flowering of her solo career from the 00s, Judy was always very generous about her collaborators past and present, frequently giving the impression that she couldn’t quite understand why all these people wanted her to work with them.
Her self-deprecating instincts aside, people wanted to work with Judy primarily for her beautiful voice with its gorgeously precise diction: shimmering purity threaded with a
