Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief
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Artist: Fairport ConventionEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: A&M
Soundtracks:
- Come All Ye
- Reynardine
- Matty Groves
- Farewell, Farewell
- Deserter
- Medley: The Lark in the Morning/Rakish Paddy/The Foxhunter's Jig/Toss T
- Tam Lin
- Crazy Man Michael
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Music Review: Just get the album!
Rating: 5 Stars
Folk-rock or whatever that matrix of Fairport Convention, Fotheringay musicians produced may be called is new to me. I recently heard Sandy Denny for the first time on WMBR Cambridge and have been obsessed ever since.
If you have any interest in folk music nothing more need be said than get this album. It has exceeded all my expectations. Why have I not heard of them till now!!??
Description of Liege & Lief
Classic Fairport Convention Album from 1969, Remastered and Includes Two Bonus Tracks: Alternate Versions of 'sir Patrick Spens' and 'quiet Joys of Brotherhood'.British hippies who started out emulating Jefferson Airplane, Fairport Convention escalated their homeland connections with each outing, culminating in this, their fourth album and a watershed for British folk-rock. Hindsight offers the ironic possibility that the Dylan covers of its predecessor, Unhalfbricking, opened a window onto the earlier Irish-English-Scots roots of the American music they loved, and Liege & Lief jumps through that window triumphantly. "Come All Ye" underscores their affinity for the Band yet is joyfully rooted in their own fertile folk traditions, echoed in a mix of classic songs from members Sandy Denny, Ashley Hutchings, and Richard Thompson, and given direct homage in the extended ballads "Matty Groves" and "Tam Lin," which evoke Neil Young & Crazy Horse in kilts. Fiddler Dave Swarbrick's arrival as a fulltime member adds new richness and a wonderful foil for Thompson's superb guitar leads. A medley of jigs and reels showcases their flair for hot-wiring traditional British Isles dances, a fixture ever since. --Sam Sutherland
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