Genre: Folk
Label: Island
Size: 12"
Format: 33RPM,

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Fairport Convention What We Did on Our Holidays 180g Import LP Scratch & Dent

Fairport Convention

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All covers have a corner bend, a spine split and a spine dent. Disc inside is undamaged.

The Group's 1969 Second Album on 180g Vinyl!
Features Richard Thompson on Guitar & Sandy Denny on Vocals!

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The trajectory that Fairport Convention took in the space of four albums and two years is one of the most remarkable in British popular music.

These records contain some of the most storied names not just in British, but world music.

From a bunch of school friends setting out to be "the British Jefferson Airplane," over the course of their first quartet of releases, the group metamorphosed into the leading exponents of British folk rock.

In the way American folk and blues had looked back to gospel songs and spirituals, Fairport mined a seam a traditional English folk song, and then combined them with rock rhythms to create something groundbreaking and quickly emulated.

For many, this is the first time the considerable talents of Richard Thompson, Sandy Denny, Ashley Hutchings, Ian Matthews, Dave Swarbrick and Dave Mattacks would have been heard on record.

Original vocalist Judy Dyble left the group in 1968 and was replaced by Alexandra 'Sandy' Denny.

The rest of the lineup remained unchanged, and a move to Island Records saw What We Did on Our Holidays released in January the following year.

Denny made her mark immediately with her opening song, "Fotheringay."

Her voice, as accomplished as Dyble's but bluesier, added a new bite to the material.

As well as Dylan and Joni Mitchell covers, the group began to experiment with traditional folk, covering "She Moves Through the Fair" and "Nottamun Town."

The album also includes "Meet on the Ledge," Fairport's anthem, written by Richard Thompson.

This reissue faithfully replicates the original 1969 Island Records UK release and is pressed onto high-quality 180g vinyl.

Features

  • High-Quality 180g Vinyl
  • Faithful Replication of the Original 1969 Island Records UK Release
  • Import
  • Made in the EU

Selections

Side One:

  1. Fotheringay
  2. Mr. Lacey
  3. Book Song
  4. "The Lord Is in This Place How Dreadful Is This Place"
  5. No Man's Land
  6. I'll Keep It with Mine

Side Two:

  1. Eastern Rain
  2. Nottamun Town
  3. Tale in Hard Time
  4. She Moves Through the Fair
  5. Meet on the Ledge
  6. End of a Holiday

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