Fairport Convention - What We Did On Our Holidays
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Artist: Fairport ConventionEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-03-10
Music Label: Island UK
Soundtracks:
- Fotheringay - Fairport Convention, Denny, Sandy
- Mr. Lacey - Fairport Convention, Hutchings, Ashley
- Book Song - Fairport Convention, Matthews, Ian
- The Lord Is in This Place...How Dreadful Is This Place - Fairport Convention, Hutchings, Ashley
- No Man's Land - Fairport Convention, Thompson, Richard [
- I'll Keep It With Mine - Fairport Convention, Dylan, Bob
- Eastern Rain - Fairport Convention, Mitchell, Joni
- Nottamun Town - Fairport Convention, Denny, Sandy
- Tale in Hard Time - Fairport Convention, Thompson, Richard [
- She Moves Through the Fair - Fairport Convention, Denny, Sandy
- Meet on the Ledge - Fairport Convention, Thompson, Richard [
- End of a Holiday - Fairport Convention, Nicol, Simon
- Throwaway Street Puzzle - Fairport Convention, Hutchings, Ashley
- You're Gonna Need My Help - Fairport Convention, Hutchings, Ashley
- Some Sweet Day - Fairport Convention, Bryant, Felice
Music reviews of What We Did On Our Holidays
Music Review: First Album with Sandy Denny.
Rating: 4 Stars
"What We Did in Our Holidays" was the first album to feature Sandy Denny and in fact the last released with Ian Matthews as lead singer. As was the case with their 1968 debut album this album is a great mixture of various styles and inspirations.
The band would later become a legend in British folk-rock, and there are clear signs what direction the band might want to pursue on this album. Songs like "Nottamun Town" and "She Moves Through the Fair" would not have been totally out of place on their folk-rock classic "Liege and Lief". There is also a lot of folk-feeling in Denny's beautiful "Fotheringay".
Bob Dylan was obviously a great inspiration for the band, and they recorded several of his songs for their early albums. Here it is his obscure song "I'll Keep it With Mine" and you maybe you could also count in "Nottamun Town", which has the same melody as "Masters of War".
Richard Thompson wrote some really great songs for the album among which "Meet on the Ledge" has become a classic. At this point Thompson's songwriting was more pop/rock than folk.
Bassist Ashley Hutchings wrote the rock'n roller "Mr Lacey" and the other guitarist Simon Nicol contributed the fine acoustic instrumental "End of a Holiday", which closed off the original album.
The three bonus tracks are interesting, but none of them would have fitted very well into the album. The B-side "Throwaway Street Puzzle" has been a collector's item for years, and a track that many fans have been eager to hear. It's a Thompson/Hutchings blues rocker written and played much in the same vein as Dylan's "Down in the Flood" or "Wathcing the River Flow".
Great album, but not quite a five stars release.
Description of What We Did On Our Holidays
Remastered reissue of classic second album, originally released in 1969, includes three bonus tracks, 'Throwaway Street Puzzle', 'You're Gonna Need My Help' (BBC), 'Some Sweet Day', & a slipcase with the first pressing. Includes sleevenotes by co-founder Ashley Hutchings. 15 tracks. Universal Island. 2003.Their second album captures Fairport Convention poised between the more embryonic, American-influenced rock of their debut and the more pronounced British folk-rock that would follow. Newly arrived vocalist Sandy Denny contributes her haunting songs and indelibly husky voice, Ian (later Iain) Matthews lofts his angelic tenor into the mix, and the set list is the most diverse they would ever offer, stacking solid covers of Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan beside traditional English songs and stirring originals from Denny, Matthews, Richard Thompson, and Ashley Hutchings. As such, Holidays works both on its own terms and as a position paper on Fairport's emerging ambition to find a distinctive accent for their alternately hearty, witty, and somber music. --Sam Sutherland
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