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Tim Hart obituary

5442 days ago
Guardian MusicFounding member of Steeleye Span who took traditional songs to a global audience Tim Hart, who has died aged 61, was one of the original members of the highly successful folk-rock band Steeleye Span. When Ashley Hutchings left Fairport Convention to ... more info

Fairport Convention: Liege and Lief: Deluxe Edition

5453 days ago
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

First sight: Sparrow and the Workshop

5453 days ago
Guardian MusicWho 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

Kris Kelly: My Visitors

5472 days ago
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

Slade: Live at the BBC | CD review

5481 days ago
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

Pop's performing pensioners

5493 days ago
Guardian MusicToday'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

How pop went pagan

5534 days ago
Guardian MusicFrom 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

Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week

5575 days ago
Brooklyn VeganRichard 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

Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week

5575 days ago
Brooklyn VeganRichard 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

Time no barrier as Cropredy Fest rocks on and on

5576 days ago
ReutersCROPREDY, 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

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