Love Fairport Convention. I still have most of their albums on vinyl and several on c.d.s. Their classic version of “Tam Lin” from LIEGE AND LIEF is on my Halloween play list (it’s set on Halloween).
Sandy Denny did only three albums with Fairport Convention, the last being LIEGE & LIEF, one of my favorite LPs of all time. It’s hard to believe that it was released in 1969, almost 50 years ago!
Though her band Fotheringay, given how many of them were eventually in Fairport, can be considered Close Enough…and then there’s the album ROCK ON by The Bunch, which was a whole bunch of musicians who were or might as well have been in Fairport. So, if you squint, five…and six if you count the various versions of the BBC recordings collected as another.
I’m a fan of Judy Dyble’s work in FC as well…that first album, and the single and the BBC and other airchecks are quite worthwhile. After Fairport lost the women, even before they lost Richard Thompson, never as good again. But losing Thompson reduced them from brilliant to good.
April 30th, 2018 at 6:08 pm
Love Fairport Convention. I still have most of their albums on vinyl and several on c.d.s. Their classic version of “Tam Lin” from LIEGE AND LIEF is on my Halloween play list (it’s set on Halloween).
April 30th, 2018 at 7:57 pm
Sandy Denny did only three albums with Fairport Convention, the last being LIEGE & LIEF, one of my favorite LPs of all time. It’s hard to believe that it was released in 1969, almost 50 years ago!
May 2nd, 2018 at 6:57 am
Though her band Fotheringay, given how many of them were eventually in Fairport, can be considered Close Enough…and then there’s the album ROCK ON by The Bunch, which was a whole bunch of musicians who were or might as well have been in Fairport. So, if you squint, five…and six if you count the various versions of the BBC recordings collected as another.
I’m a fan of Judy Dyble’s work in FC as well…that first album, and the single and the BBC and other airchecks are quite worthwhile. After Fairport lost the women, even before they lost Richard Thompson, never as good again. But losing Thompson reduced them from brilliant to good.