Who Knows Where the Time Went, Pt 2 -- Essential Fairport Convention tracks, 1967 - 1979
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Album:Liege and Lief
"Unhalfbricking":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00007J36V/mikewebersweberw:July 69"
":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00007J36V/mikewebersweberw:July 69The cover photo shows Sandy's parents outside their garden in, i believe, the London suburb of Putney. I've been to Putney to visit Sandy's grave. These people obviously had Money.(US November 69, with the stupidest cover ever... [below])Virtually this entire album is Important:Genesis HallSi Tu Dois Partir Who Knows Where the Time GoesPercy's SongMillion Dollar BashPersonnel as before (Matthews on only one track); Dave Swarbrick on session fiddleGenesis Hall was a well-known and large London squat that was eventually raided by the police. Richard's father was a policeman; Genesis Hall the song is about neutrality and ambivalence in emotional circumstance. ("My father he rides with your sheriffs/ and I know he would never mean harm/But to see both sides of a quarrel they say/Is to judge without fear or alarm...")You may know Judy Collins' version of Where the Time Goes -- it was, i understand, the second real song Sandy wrote, written when she was 19.Three Dylan covers on the list here (You only see two? Ah, grasshopper, you must look again. Si tu Dois Partir is a "dog-French" version of If You Gotta Go, Go Now that they worked out on stage with audience assistance one night. Martin takes his last drum break on a stack of folding chairs with a lemonade bottle on top, which falls over audibly at the end.)
First US release cover.What the hell wereA&M thinking?"Liege and Lief
":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002GFT/mikewebersweberwDecember 69Matty Groves Farewell, FarewellThe Deserter Medley: The Lark In The Morning / Rakish Paddy / Foxhunter's Jig / Toss The Feathers Tam Lin Crazy Man Michael Considered by many (not necessarily me) to be the best Fairport album, by the "perfect" lineup.Big personnel change here -- van crash on the M1 killed drummer Lamble.Sandy Denny, VocalsDave Swarbrick (now officially a member), Fiddle, ViolaRichard Thompson, Guitars, Backing VocalsSimon Nicol, GuitarsAshley Hutchings, Bass, Backing VocalsDave Mattacks , Drums, Percussion (the second Dave)Matty Groves, a trad murder ballad, makes its first (and far from last) appearance. Listed in the Childe Ballads in an earlier version as Little Musgrave.Ditto Tam Lin, a ballad of a laird's young daughter who falls in love with a mortal knight held in thrall by the Queen of Faerie. (Basis for the YA fantasy novel Fire & Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones -- well worth your while if you read fantasy)Okay, so now we've covered the first four albums. As before the entire list in PDF form (with all the Pretty Pictures) (900K) is "available for download":http://electronictiger.net/avail/fairportlist.pdf (and as "*a much smaller text-only PDF*":http://electronictiger.net/avail/fairport_txt.pdf), and i'll be posting a couple more albums' worth in a few days, too...
":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00007J36V/mikewebersweberw:July 69The cover photo shows Sandy's parents outside their garden in, i believe, the London suburb of Putney. I've been to Putney to visit Sandy's grave. These people obviously had Money.(US November 69, with the stupidest cover ever... [below])Virtually this entire album is Important:Genesis HallSi Tu Dois Partir Who Knows Where the Time GoesPercy's SongMillion Dollar BashPersonnel as before (Matthews on only one track); Dave Swarbrick on session fiddleGenesis Hall was a well-known and large London squat that was eventually raided by the police. Richard's father was a policeman; Genesis Hall the song is about neutrality and ambivalence in emotional circumstance. ("My father he rides with your sheriffs/ and I know he would never mean harm/But to see both sides of a quarrel they say/Is to judge without fear or alarm...")You may know Judy Collins' version of Where the Time Goes -- it was, i understand, the second real song Sandy wrote, written when she was 19.Three Dylan covers on the list here (You only see two? Ah, grasshopper, you must look again. Si tu Dois Partir is a "dog-French" version of If You Gotta Go, Go Now that they worked out on stage with audience assistance one night. Martin takes his last drum break on a stack of folding chairs with a lemonade bottle on top, which falls over audibly at the end.)First US release cover.What the hell wereA&M thinking?"Liege and Lief":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002GFT/mikewebersweberwDecember 69Matty Groves Farewell, FarewellThe Deserter Medley: The Lark In The Morning / Rakish Paddy / Foxhunter's Jig / Toss The Feathers Tam Lin Crazy Man Michael Considered by many (not necessarily me) to be the best Fairport album, by the "perfect" lineup.Big personnel change here -- van crash on the M1 killed drummer Lamble.Sandy Denny, VocalsDave Swarbrick (now officially a member), Fiddle, ViolaRichard Thompson, Guitars, Backing VocalsSimon Nicol, GuitarsAshley Hutchings, Bass, Backing VocalsDave Mattacks , Drums, Percussion (the second Dave)Matty Groves, a trad murder ballad, makes its first (and far from last) appearance. Listed in the Childe Ballads in an earlier version as Little Musgrave.Ditto Tam Lin, a ballad of a laird's young daughter who falls in love with a mortal knight held in thrall by the Queen of Faerie. (Basis for the YA fantasy novel Fire & Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones -- well worth your while if you read fantasy)Okay, so now we've covered the first four albums. As before the entire list in PDF form (with all the Pretty Pictures) (900K) is "available for download":http://electronictiger.net/avail/fairportlist.pdf (and as "*a much smaller text-only PDF*":http://electronictiger.net/avail/fairport_txt.pdf), and i'll be posting a couple more albums' worth in a few days, too...
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