Fairport Convention
gf...@dfw.ibm.com
and am trying to find a good CD to get more familiar with this band.
Unfortunately, I'm told that this song exists only on "In Real Time Live '87",
which is not their best release. (Is it on another, better recording?)
Anyway, can someone recommend a good (the best?) CD by these guys?
Liege and Lief? Unhalfbricking? What We Did on Our Holidays?
Thanks!
Andy May
> Hi. I recently heard a nice track by this band called "Close to the Wind"
> and am trying to find a good CD to get more familiar with this band.
> Unfortunately, I'm told that this song exists only on "In Real Time Live '87",
> which is not their best release. (Is it on another, better recording?)
>
Hmm - I could have sworn that I had it on another album, but I now
can't find it.
Are you going on hearsay about 'Real Time' - personally I think it's one
of their better albums... but then again I was there :)
Andy
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harry brisco
writes:
>Anyway, can someone recommend a good (the best?) CD by these guys?
>Liege and Lief? Unhalfbricking? What We Did on Our Holidays?
All of these are great. i.e. you can!t go wrong. Plus their first album
with a vocalist named Judy Dyble also is highly recommended. A&M had a
two-record set called Fairport Chronicles which is a good introductory
sampler (I have and would be happy to tape although probably not in mint
condition e-mail me on this). Don!t think it!s available as a CD,
however. They also have a CD out of their performances on the BBC called
Heyday which is good. My preference is for the earlier stuff.
the progression you will see in these albums is from an American-styled
San Francisco rock band (they loved the Airplane and the Byrds and dylan
and also covered material by Joni Mitchell, Gene Clark, Richard and Mimi
Farina, Johnny Cash, etc.) to eletrically performed traditonal British
folk music. Patrick humphires has written a good history of the band.
You might also want to check postings on Richard Thompson. he wasa the
group!s lead guitarist and any that might pop up on Sandy Denny, their
angelic voiced lead singer after the first album.
You may want to check out some of their albums as well. Thomspon I
recommend I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight, Hokey Pokey, Live More
or Less for Sandy consider Like an Old Fashioned Waltz.
Ashley Hutchings, bassis for Fairport went on to found Steeleye Span,
which is another electric British traditonal folk rock band.
Harry Brisco the Crystal Man
A little touch of Harry in the night
Wath the donut not the hole
Robert Thurlow
harry brisco <pub...@amber.indstate.edu> wrote:
>A&M had a
>two-record set called Fairport Chronicles which is a good introductory
>sampler (I have and would be happy to tape although probably not in mint
>condition e-mail me on this). Don!t think it!s available as a CD,
I have a copy of "The History Of Fairport Convention" on CD, after
having the two-record set of that. It's a decent sampler, as well.
The two-record set had the advantage that you could see that neat
"family tree" of Fairport players over time, but it's still there in
the CD. The number of the CD is Island IMCD 128. I imagine the
Fairport Chronicles is more detailed.
Rob T
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Nick Gibbins
>gf...@dfw.ibm.com writes:
>>Anyway, can someone recommend a good (the best?) CD by these guys?
>>Liege and Lief? Unhalfbricking? What We Did on Our Holidays?
>All of these are great. i.e. you can't go wrong. They also have a CD out of
>their performances on the BBC called Heyday which is good. My preference is
>for the earlier stuff.
I agree with this sentiment. While their later albums are still
enjoyable and contain some memorable pieces, they have a tendancy to play a
few too many Ralph McTell and Huw Williams numbers for my tastes. I wasn't
overly impressed with 'Expletive Delighted', Fairport's instrumental-only
album (recorded by the current line-up) which seemed rather un-folklike and
incongruous.
Other excellent Fairport albums to look for are 'Babbacombe Lee'
(which I've heard described as 'progressive folk') and 'Rising for the Moon',
which is possibly my favourite of the Sandy-era albums.
>Ashley Hutchings, bassist for Fairport went on to found Steeleye Span,
>which is another electric British traditional folk rock band.
He was also a founder member of the Albion (Dance) Band, which in its
various incarnations has featured quite a few other Fairport members (Ric
Sanders and Dave Mattacks spring readily to mind) - you might like to take a
look at 'Rise Up Like the Sun' and 'The Prospect Before Us'.
Just my two-pennorth...
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Nick Gibbins ngib...@dcs.warwick.ac.uk
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your travels was to know, to know was to drink with, and to drink with
was, unfortunately, to pay for." - Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
harry brisco
thu...@convex.UUCP writes:
>I have a copy of "The History Of Fairport Convention" on CD, after
>having the two-record set of that. It's a decent sampler, as well.
>The two-record set had the advantage that you could see that neat
>"family tree" of Fairport players over time, but it's still there in
>the CD. The number of the CD is Island IMCD 128. I imagine the
>Fairport Chronicles is more detailed.
>
>Rob T
The History of...is, I believe, an import. (At least it was as vinyl).
Krovetz
with Full House, which is also good, but isn't live).
How is Tippler's Tales?
Bob
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>Subject: Re: Fairport Convention
>From: s049...@let.rug.nl (R. Dijkhuis)
>Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1994 15:04:38 GMT
>In article <2uq7tf$d...@opine.cs.umass.edu> kro...@canberra.cs.umass.edu (Krovetz ) writes:
>>How is Tippler's Tales?
>A great fun album, consisting mainly of drinking songs, but with a good
>murder ballad (Jack O'Rion) in there somewhere. The first three tracks, Ye
>Mariners All, Three Drunken Maidens and The Widow of Westmoreland's Daughter
>are the best, but Jack O'Rion is another highlight, as is their version of
>John Barleycorn. It may have been their last studio album before breaking up
>in '79/'80, but it's one of their best IMHO.
>Reinder
>"Een hogedrukgebied boven Patagonie trekt langzaam in de richting van
>Tasmanie."
Wat is dit met die weervoorspelling? (Hier reen dit maar aanhoudend!) :-)
Andy May
kro...@canberra.cs.umass.edu "Krovetz " writes:
> How is Tippler's Tales?
>
The main reasons for Tipplers Tales as far as I can see are Reynard the Fox
(of which there's a better version on 'In Real Time') and the seminal (I
always wanted to be enough of a music journo to use that word) John
Barleycorn. That's a great old song that I've sung and heard sung for as
long as I can remember down in my ancestral home in the SouthWest. The
recorded version is OK, but their live version is better.
Andy
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Thomas Rhoads
Bonny Bunch of Roses," together on one CD (Vertigo 512 988 -2). (This may
also be available on cassette). The sound and feel of the two albums is
quite similar, and both feature the same 4-piece lineup (Swarbrick, Nicol,
Pegg, Rowland). Personally I think "Bonny Bunch" is a bit more consistent
than "Tipplers," but both are quite good.
Tom Rhoads