Fairport Convention

This month marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Fairport Conventions Liege and Lief. And while it is enough to pay tribute to a great and lasting album, this record thankfully gives us a little more to chew on. Liege and Lief isand will conti... more info

Guardian Music — Who are they?A Glasgow-based trio who have already been compared to Fleet Foxes, Fairport Convention, Jefferson Airplane, Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, and, er, both Detroit and Seattle rock. We say: a band who make timeless, slightly otherworldly... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Kris Kelly, a singer-songwriter and composer based in Brooklyn, aims high. He studied opera performance and music composition and tries to mix classical instruments with traditional folk and pop. My Visitors is his debut full length and it is an al... more info

Guardian Music — (Salvo)It must be getting harder to find new Slade material to trudge out every Christmas but this is a treat, tracing the Black Country rockers' fascinating 1969-72 progress from a band Tony Blackburn introduces as "the skinhead set" to the biggest ... more info

Guardian Music — Today's stars now rock right past the retirement age. How do they do it? And shouldn't some of them stop?Dave Swarbrick, one-time fiddler with Fairport Convention, can laugh about his "death" now. It was 1999 and he'd been taken ill in Austria. The D... more info

Guardian Music — From Bat for Lashes to Wild Beasts, pop's love affair with paganism has blossomed into a musical harvestThe day before his wedding my father asked me to sew an acorn on to the hem of his shirt. The shirt was red. The wedding was rainbow-coloured. The... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Richard Thompson's Walking on a Wire is in stores tomorrow. The career-spanning box set includes songs from his Fairport Convention Days, his albums with Linda Thompson, and his solo work. Mid-summer means the music release list is a bit short,.... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Richard Thompson's Walking on a Wire is in stores tomorrow. The career-spanning box set includes songs from his Fairport Convention Days, his albums with Linda Thompson, and his solo work. Mid-summer means the music release list is a bit short,... more info

Reuters — CROPREDY, England (Reuters) - Simon Nicol, the last original member of folk rock band Fairport Convention, admits he's not into numbers, which may be why no one is quite sure what milestone just passed in this rural English village. more info

Totally Fuzzy — arthurfromholland said...Dianne Krall (Temptation)Fairport Convention(original line-up 1968)Beautifull!!!onArthur,s Musical Journeyhttp://arthurfromholland.blogspot.comBruxa do Vinil said...Pedro Caetano - É com esse que eu vou (1975)RCA Camden 1... more info