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 - Fairport Convention, Denny, Sandy
- Reynardine
- Matty Groves
- Farewell, Farewell - Fairport Convention, Thompson, Richard [
- The Deserter - Fairport Convention, Richards, John
- Medley: The Lark in the Morning/Rakish Paddy/The Foxhunter's Jig/Toss T
- Tam Lin
- Crazy Man Michael - Fairport Convention, Thompson, Richard [
Music reviews of Liege & Lief
Music Review: I like it a lot
Rating: 4 Stars
Liege and Lief is a very nice album. The vocal melodies, while simplistic and repeat a bunch of times, are interesting enough to keep my attention, and interesting enough to tell a good story. The female singer is really good. Some of the arrangements are really good as well. They can let loose and jam out with the best of them.
Fairport Convention sound like they were big fans of Bob Dylan's style of songwriting at the time- sing more or less the same melody over and over while changing the lyrics each time in order to build a story for the lyrically-minded people. An album worth owning.
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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