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Liege & Lief
(1969)
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In the decades since its original release, more than one writer has declared Fairport Convention's Liege & Lief the definitive British folk-rock album, a distinction it holds at least in part because it grants equal importance to all three parts of that formula. While Fairport had begun dipping their toes into British traditional folk with their ...
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Unhalfbricking
(1969)
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Unhalfbricking was, if only in retrospect, a transitional album for the young Fairport Convention, in which the group shed its closest ties to its American folk-rock influences and started to edge toward a more traditional British folk-slanted sound. That shift wouldn't be definitive until their next album, Liege & Lief. But the strongest link to ...
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Unhalfbricking [UK Bonus Tracks]
(2003)
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Unhalfbricking was, if only in retrospect, a transitional album for the young Fairport Convention, in which the group shed its closest ties to its American folk-rock influences and started to edge toward a more traditional British folk-slanted sound. That shift wouldn't be definitive until their next album, Liege & Lief. But the strongest link to ...
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Best of Steeleye Span [EMI]
(1992)
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Steeleye Span
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Live at the BBC
(2007)
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Fairport Convention
Is a four-CD box set of Fairport Convention 1967-1974 BBC recordings excessive? After all, even the Beatles only got two CDs of Beeb tracks into official release. But it really isn't too much for fans of the band, for the quality of most of the stuff here is truly good, even if the very best of it was already issued on the Heyday compilation. ...
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Please to See the King
(1971)
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Steeleye Span
The debut of Steeleye Span (Mark II), with Peter Knight on fiddle and Martin Carthy on guitar, is more solid in almost every area from repertory to production. The group still had its feet in both modern and traditional sounds simultaneously, so Please to See the King mixes very beautiful, distinctly archaic sounding songs such as "Boys of Bedlam" ...
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Hark! The Village Wait
(1970)
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Steeleye Span
Originally released by British RCA, this debut album by Steeleye Span's original lineup -- Ashley Hutchings (bass), Tim Hart (electric guitar, electric dulcimer, banjo, harmonium, vocals), Maddy Prior (vocals, banjo), Terry Woods (mandola, mandolin, electric guitar, vocals), and Gay Woods (vocals, concertina, bodhran) -- barely made it out the ...
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Fairport Convention
(1968)
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By far the most rock-oriented of Fairport Convention's early albums, this debut was recorded before Sandy Denny joined the band (Judy Dyble handles the female vocals). Unjustly overlooked by listeners who consider the band's pre-Denny output insignificant, this is a fine folk-rock effort that takes far more inspiration from West Coast '60s sounds ...
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The Cropredy Box
(1999)
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This three-disc set was recorded live in August of 1997 at Fairport Convention's annual Cropredy Festival. In 1997 Fairport celebrated their 30th year of existence, and this concert was an attempt to chronicle the various periods of the band's storied career by reassembling their most significant lineups. Original vocalist Judy Dyble, who only ...
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History of Fairport Convention
(1972)
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Originally a double album, this 18-song CD is a good selection of the better songs recorded by the group from What We Did on Our Holidays thru Babbacombe Lee, including "Sailor's Life," "Who Knows Where the Time Goes," "Meet On the Ledge," "Si Tu Dois Partir," "Matty Groves," "Sloth," and "Angel Delight." It's no substitute for any of the albums ...
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Liege & Lief [Deluxe Edition]
(2007)
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Fairport Convention
In the decades since its original release, more than one writer has declared Fairport Convention's Liege & Lief the definitive British folk-rock album, a distinction it holds at least in part because it grants equal importance to all three parts of that formula. While Fairport had begun dipping their toes into British traditional folk with their ...
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Heyday: BBC Radio Sessions, 1968-1969 [UK Bonus Tracks]
(2002)
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Fairport Convention
In its previous edition (first released in 1987), Heyday was an important document of Fairport Convention's early days, its dozen tracks including numerous songs (mostly folk-rock covers) that they didn't put on their late-'60s albums. The 2002 edition adds to its value considerably by adding eight more tracks, all of them also taken from 1968 ...
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Spanning the Years
(1995)
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Steeleye Span
A 35-song, two-CD best-of, moving from their earliest 1970 recordings through the early 1990s. The emphasis is properly on their 1970s work, and accordingly the first disc is more essential, though the second part also has merit. With lengthy liner notes by Maddy Prior, it's an excellent survey of the group and may serve the essential needs of ...
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Portfolio
(1988)
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Steeleye Span
Flawed though Shanachie's Steeleye Span catalog is, it's hard to pick fault with Portfolio. A gathering of 16 tracks spanning the band's entire career so far, it features liner notes from former member Tim Hart and culls at least one song apiece from each of the band's studio albums -- the exceptions to this are two each from All Around My Hat and ...
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Ten Man Mop
(1971)
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Steeleye Span
The third Steeleye Span album, Ten Man Mop opens with possibly the most beautifully sung number of their entire history, "Gower Wassail," which also makes a very strong case for the use of electric guitars in a traditional folk setting. "Paddy Clancy's Jig/Four Nights Drunk" was the group's first great electric adaptation of traditional dance, ...
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Gottle O'Geer [Bonus Track]
(2007)
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The Fairport Companion
(2006)
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Fairport Convention
For a band that's seen seven or more incarnations, Fairport Convention has remained a near-mythological Godhead for the British folk scene. Castle Music's sprawling Fairport Companion, complete with a hand-drawn family tree foldout from legendary illustrator/journalist Pete Frame, manages to dutifully represent nearly all of the group's major ...
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Live Convention [Germany Bonus Tracks]
(2005)
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Fairport Convention
Maybe it's the fresh remixing and remastering, from original concert tapes, or the new technology being used, but most of the problems that pertained to this somewhat obscure Fairport Convention concert recording on vinyl and earlier CD issues have vanished, or else been reduced in scope to insignificance, and 30 minutes of additional live ...
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The Journey
(2001)
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Steeleye Span
While Fairport Convention was busy transforming the art of reuniting former lineups into a way of life, Steeleye Span, fellow giants of the British folk-rock scene, tended to steer away from their old pals' act, preferring to continue plowing their unique furrow with as little nostalgic fanfare as possible. The one exception to this rule occurred ...
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The Lark in the Morning: The Early Years
(2003)
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Steeleye Span
Lark in the Morning: The Early Years is a mid-priced, two-disc rendering of the band's first three records. Remastered for the first time, Hark! the Village Wait, Please to See the King, and Ten Man Mop are featured in their entirety, and in their original sequence, making this an absolute necessity for fans, and a perfect entry point for the ...
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The Lasting Spirit: The Collection
(2005)
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Fairport Convention
This Fairport Convention triple-CD set represents a startlingly good idea that comes off well -- a compilation of live performances from across the group's history, intermingling class concert recordings from back as far as the late '60s with much more recent work from the Cropredy Festival. What one comes away appreciating anew is just how good a ...
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Individually & Collectively
(1972)
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Steeleye Span
Individually & Collectively features material from Please to See the King and Ten Man Mop, as well as selections from Tim Hart and Maddy Prior's excellent Summer Solstice and Folk Songs of Olde England albums. The real sell is the inclusion of "General Taylor," a previously unreleased track from the band's golden era. For those interested in ...
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Heyday: BBC Radio Sessions, 1968-1969
(1987)
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Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention has long been British folk-rock with the emphasis on British and folk, but listeners most familiar with their revved-up interpretation of traditional English ballads (and like-minded originals) often forget that the band started out as the U.K.'s response to Jefferson Airplane. Heyday collects 12 performances (ten of them ...
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A Brilliant Light
(2005)
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Ashley Hutchings
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The Guv'nor, Vol. 2
(1996)
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Ashley Hutchings
A different label, and 18 songs that cover the same period as Volume One but don't overlap at all. "You Never Wanted Me" by Fairport Convention in 1968 is so beautiful (with a killer performance by Sandy Denny) that it's worth the price of the CD by itself, and the Sandy Denny-sung version of "Sir Patrick Spens" (a song more familiar in the ...
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