Old music: Fairport Convention – Si Tu Dois Partir

Faiport Conventions' first, light-hearted hit offered few clues that they would reinvent English folk musicI first heard this song on Tony Blackburn's Radio 1 show, in the days when it was just beginning to dawn on me that there was music out there beyond the top 20. Some of my schoolmates who were more in the know were into bands with puzzling names that appeared on billboards for gigs at our local club, the Tolworth Toby Jug – obscure names such as Cream, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Blodwyn P...

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