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- 15 MAR 2024
- 17 Songs
- Liege and Lief · 1969
- What We Did On Our Holidays (Bonus Track Edition) · 1969
- Unhalfbricking (Bonus Track Edition) · 1969
- A Tree With Roots: Fairport Convention and the Songs of Bob Dylan · 1969
- Unhalfbricking (Bonus Track Edition) · 1969
- Unhalfbricking (Bonus Track Edition) · 1969
- Fairport Convention (Bonus Track Edition) · 1968
- Nine (Bonus Track Edition) · 1973
- Meet On the Ledge - The Classic Years (1967-1975) · 1999
- What We Did On Our Holidays (Bonus Track Edition) · 1969
Essential Albums
- After a few years spent covering Dylan and other Yanks, Fairport Convention decided to rock up the most English material they could find, and British folk-rock was born. Other groups jumped on board, but they didn't have Sandy Denny's crystalline voice, Richard Thompson's guitar heroics or a drummer who could swing like Dave Mattacks. The epic ballads "Tam Lin" and "Matty Groves" match brilliant stories with heavy riffs. But Denny shone on the spookier numbers, notably "Crazy Man Michael", from the dark side of Thompson's muse.
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- The band that redefined folk.
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About Fairport Convention
The definitive British folk-rock band, Fairport Convention took the traditional music of England and injected it with electricity and rock energy, sparking a whole musical movement in the U.K. in the late 1960s and early '70s. The late-'60s incarnation of the band was bursting with talent, including singer Sandy Denny and guitarist Richard Thompson, both of whom went on to lauded solo careers. Even after Denny and Thompson's departures, though, Fairport never slowed down. Through numerous personnel changes, they soldiered on for decades with their singular brand of folk-rock, becoming the Grand Old Men of the genre.
- ORIGIN
- London, England
- FORMED
- 1967
- GENRE
- Singer/Songwriter