Fairport Convention - Heyday: BBC Radio Sessions, 1968-1969
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Artist: Fairport ConventionEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Import, Live, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-03-11
Music Label: Island UK
Soundtracks:
- Close the Door Lightly When You Go - Fairport Convention, Anderson, Eric
- I Don't Know Where I Stand - Fairport Convention, Mitchell, Joni
- Some Sweet Day - Fairport Convention, Bryant, Felice
- Reno, Nevada - Fairport Convention, Farina, Richard
- Suzanne - Fairport Convention, Cohen, Leonard
- If It Feels Good, You Know It Can't Be Wrong - Fairport Convention, Thompson, Richard [
- I Still Miss Someone - Fairport Convention, Cash, Johnny
- Bird on a Wire - Fairport Convention, Cohen, Leonard
- Gone, Gone, Gone - Fairport Convention, Everly, Phil
- Tried So Hard - Fairport Convention, Clark, Gene [1]
- Shattering Live Experience - Fairport Convention, Nicol, Simon
- Percy's Song - Fairport Convention, Dylan, Bob
- You Never Wanted Me - Fairport Convention, Frank, Jackson C.
- Nottamun Town - Fairport Convention, Denny, Sandy
- Fotheringay - Fairport Convention, Denny, Sandy
- Si Tu Dois Partir - Fairport Convention, Dylan, Bob
- Cajun Woman - Fairport Convention, Thompson, Richard [
- Autopsy - Fairport Convention, Denny, Sandy
- Reynardine - Fairport Convention, Traditional
- Tam Lin - Fairport Convention, Traditional
Music reviews of Heyday: BBC Radio Sessions, 1968-1969
Music Review: Fresh Air from Long Ago. Very Nice Listening
Rating: 4 Stars
`Heydey' by the original Fairport Convention (thus the title) is a CD of recordings done by the group on the BBC in 1968 and 1969, about the time the group released their attention-grabbing album `Unhalfbricking'.
My first impression on hearing the album is that even with the great original members, especially Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson, this is a very lightweight album. Of the two heaviest numbers, one `Percy's Song' is available on `Unhalfbricking' and Leonard Cohen's `Suzanne' has almost become a clich?, as it has been recorded so many times since Judy Collins brought it to light on one of her albums around 1967. Most of the other numbers are pretty light, some recalling the style of `The Fifth Dimension'.
But then I listened to it a bit more. My opinion on `Percy's Song' and `Suzanne' does not change, but my take on the rest of the album mellows to the point where I really like this artifact from my beloved / hated 1960s. Instead of `The Fifth Dimension', I start to get wiffs of `The Byrds' and Richard and Mimi Farina.
As I happen to be listening to a CD of Fairport Convention which comes 30 years later, with but one original band member (Simon Nicol) in place, I get no sense that I am listening to `Fairport Convention' until they do their old chestnut `Matty Groves' for the 3000th time.
Recommended, if you can get it at a good discount!
Description of Heyday: BBC Radio Sessions, 1968-1969
Full title, 'Heyday BBC Radio Sessions 1968-69. UK compilation captures the classic line-up in sessions for John Peel's Top Gear program. The band cover some of their favorite songs by Bob Dylan ('Percy's Song'), Joni Mitchell ('Don't Know Where I Stand'), Leonard Cohen ('Suzanne'), Johnny Cash ('I Still Miss Someone') & The Everly Brothers ('Gone, Gone, Gone') amongst others. Digitally remastered with eight bonus tracks from the same sessions, 'You Never Wanted Me', 'Nottamun Town', 'Fotheringay', 'Si Tu Dois Partir', 'Cajun Woman', 'Autopsy', 'Reynardine' & 'Tam Lin'. 2002.When a dozen of these songs were released on the first (1987) issue of Heyday, Fairport's original producer, Joe Boyd, revealed that almost 20 years earlier he'd vetoed numbers like Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne," Johnny Cash's "I Still Miss Someone," and the Everly Brothers' "Gone, Gone, Gone" from consideration for the LPs Unhalfbricking and Liege And Lief on the grounds that "Americans did these sorts of songs in their sleep better than any English band could hope to." Any view from 30-odd years later is likely to be obscured by rosy clouds of nostalgia, but Boyd's opinion seems vindicated, especially now that the album has been extended with tracks from the British tradition--such as "Nottamun Town," "Reynardine," and "Tam Lin"--that demonstrate what Fairport really did well. Also added to the '87 album are a couple of touching originals by Sandy Denny performed as solos, "Fotheringay" and "Autopsy," and an appealingly ramshackle go at Richard Thompson's bayou-blues "Cajun Woman." --Tony Russell
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