Nine (Fairport Convention album)
Nine is the ninth album by the British folk rock group Fairport Convention and, according to Allmusic, is their most uneven.
It is their second album to feature Trevor Lucas and Jerry Donahue, and features no original members of Fairport Convention.
Polly on the Shore was re-recorded by the 21st- century lineup of Fairport Convention( featuring only Dave Pegg from the Nine- era lineup) for their album" Sense of Occasion" in 2007, with Simon Nicol on lead vocals.
The same lineup later re-recorded The Hexhamshire Lass in a new arrangement for 2012's" By Popular Request".
This version featured Chris Leslie on lead vocals.
Bonus tracks recorded live at The Howff, London on April 23, 1973.
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention are a British folk rock band, formed in 1967 by Richard Thompson( guitar, vocals), Simon Nicol( guitar, vocals), Ashley Hutchings( bass guitar), and Shaun Frater( drums, percussion), with Frater replaced by Martin Lamble after their first gig.
They started out heavily influenced by American folk rock and singer- songwriter material, with a setlist dominated by Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell songs and a sound that earned them the nickname' the British Jefferson Airplane'.
Vocalists Judy Dyble and Iain Matthews joined them before the recording of their self- titled debut in 1968; afterwards, Dyble was replaced by Sandy Denny, with Matthews leaving during the recording of their third album.
Denny began steering the group towards traditional British music for their next two albums," What We Did on Our Holidays" and" Unhalfbricking"( both 1969); the latter featured fiddler Dave" Swarb" Swarbrick, most notably on the song" A Sailor's Life", which laid the groundwork for British folk rock by being the first time a traditional British song was combined with a rock beat.
However, shortly before the album's release, a crash on the M1 killed Lamble and Thompson's then- girlfriend, Jeannie Franklyn; this resulted in the group retiring most of their prior material and turning entirely towards British folk music for their seminal album" Liege& Lief", released the same year, with this style being the band's focus ever since.
For this album Swarbrick joined full- time alongside Dave Mattacks on drums.
Both Denny and Hutchings left before the year's end; the latter replaced by Dave Pegg, who has remained the group's sole consistent member to this day; and Thompson would leave after the recording of 1970's" Full House".
The 1970s saw numerous lineup changes around the core of Swarbrick and Pegg – Nicol being absent for the middle of the decade – and declining fortunes as folk music fell out of mainstream favour.
Denny, whose partner Trevor Lucas had been a guitarist in the group since 1972, returned for the pop-orientated" Rising for the Moon" album in 1975 in a final bid to crack America; this effort failed, and after three more albums minus Denny or Lucas, the group disbanded in 1979.
They played a farewell concert in the village of Cropredy, Oxfordshire, where they had held small concerts since 1976, and this marked the beginning of the Cropredy Festival( since 2005 known as Fairport's Cropredy Convention) which has become the largest folk festival in Britain, with annual attendances of 20,000.
The band was reformed by Nicol, Pegg, and Mattacks in 1985, joined by Maartin Allcock( guitar, vocals) and Ric Sanders( fiddle, keyboards), and they have remained active since.
Allcock was replaced by Chris Leslie in 1996, and Gerry Conway replaced Mattacks in 1998, with this lineup remaining unchanged since and marking the longest- lasting of the group's history.
Their 28th studio album,, released to mark their 50th anniversary, was released in 2017, and they continue to headline Cropredy each year.
Despite little mainstream success – with their only top 40 single being" Si Tu Dois Partir", a French- language cover of the Dylan song" If You Gotta Go, Go Now" from" Unhalfbricking" – Fairport Convention remain highly influential in British folk rock and British folk in general.
" Liege& Lief" was named the" Most Influential Folk Album of All Time" at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2006, and Pegg's playing style, which incorporates jigs and reels into his basslines, has been imitated by many in the folk rock and folk punk genres.
Additionally, many former members went on to form or join other notable groups in the genre, including Fotheringay, Steeleye Span, and the Albion Band; along with solo careers, most notably Thompson and Denny.
Hers ended with her death in 1978, though she is now regarded as being amongst Britain's finest female singer- songwriters; her song" Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" – recorded by Fairport on" Unhalfbricking" – has become a signature song for herself and the band.
The Five Seasons
The Five Seasons is the 17th studio album by folk rock band Fairport Convention.
Castor (band)
Castor was an American indie rock/ emo band from Champaign- Urbana, Illinois.
Formed in 1994, they were known for their" fluid" sound, often changing time signatures several times in a song while maintaining the flow of the music.
They released two albums, the first self titled in 1995, the second" Tracking Sounds Alone" posthumously in 1998.
Both albums are now out of print and only available in digital format online.
Singer and guitarist Jeff Garber and bassist Derek Niedringhaus recorded an album under the band name" Big Bright Lights" in 1997 which was not released until 2001.
During their existence they toured with other influential Champaign- Urbana acts Braid and Hum amongst others.
Garber went on to play in the bands National Skyline and Year of the Rabbit.
Niedringhaus also joined National Skyline, later forming Centaur with Hum singer/ guitarist Matt Talbott, the producer of their only single.
On February 24, 2018, Castor reunited for the first time in 20 years, opening for Hum at Delmar Hall in St. Louis, MO.
(guitar, vocal)
( guitar, vocal) is a 1976 album by Richard Thompson.
It was released by Island Records as a career retrospective after he and his wife Linda had gone into semi-retirement from the business of making and performing music following the release of" Pour Down Like Silver"( 1975).
Most tracks are unreleased recordings from Thompson's career to date- though the two instrumental tracks were recorded specifically for this compilation.
( guitar, vocal) spans Thompsons's early years with Fairport Convention as well as the time he spent performing and recording as a duo with wife Linda.
The release was notable for two live cuts from the 1975 Richard and Linda Thompson tour —" Night Comes In" and" Calvary Cross" — which featured lengthy guitar solos by Thompson, and for the Fairport Convention tracks" The Ballad of Easy Rider" featuring an excellent vocal from Sandy Denny which was an unreleased track from the" Liege& Lief" sessions and" Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman" which had been recorded for and then omitted from that group's" Full House" album.
"( guitar, vocal)" has been out of print for some years now.
Several tracks first released as part of this compilation have subsequently been included as bonus tracks on remastered Fairport Convention and Richard& Linda Thompson albums issued by Island Records.
However the BBC version of Mr Lacey was unavailable elsewhere, until its release on the 19- CD boxset" Sandy Denny": it did not feature on the recent Fairport Convention boxset.
Off the Desk
Off The Desk is a live album by Fairport Convention.
It was recorded on Fairport Convention's Winter Tours during 2004 and 2005 and the double CD features many tracks previously unavailable as live recordings.
Meet on the Ledge
" Meet on the Ledge" is a song by British folk rock band Fairport Convention, released in 1968.
It was their second single.
The song was taken from the album" What We Did on Our Holidays".
They had performed" Meet on the Ledge" on the 1969 launch of" From the Roundhouse"( a short- lived BBC television youth and arts programme about the London" underground scene").
The vocals were performed by[ Sandy Denny]] and Iain Matthews.
The song's title comes from a large, low- hanging tree limb on which Richard Thompson used to play as a child, and which he and his friends had dubbed" The Ledge".
Thompson has acknowledged that some people interpret" the ledge" as some sort of code for the afterlife and that it is popular at funerals.
In an interview with" Mojo" magazine in March 2011, Thompson said:" The hardest thing about being a 17- year- old songwriter is that you're embarrassed- you're never going to write a song saying,' These are my feelings, I love you.'
So I was trying to find some semi-veiled language that conveyed something to somebody somehow but which did n't really say anything up front.
It's a slightly naïve song, a little obscure.
I do n't even know what it means ...
I had to sing it at my own mother's funeral.
It was in her will.
That's about the hardest thing I've ever done".
The song has become Fairport Convention's unofficial anthem.
At their concerts, including the ongoing Cropredy Festival, it is often performed as the last song and a signal to fans that there will be no more encores.
A listeners poll for BBC Radio 2 placed the song at number 17 in the station's Sold On Song Top 100 songs.
Thompson re-recorded the song as a bonus track on his solo album" Small Town Romance".
Fairport Convention re-recorded the song in 1987, releasing it as a track on the album and as a single to tie in with the band's 20th anniversary.
Of the latter release, band member Ric Sanders quipped at the time" We're going to release it every 20 years until it's a hit".
The title has been used for a compilation album by Fairport Convention and a book about them.
It is the first track on the 1972 compilation" History of Fairport Convention".
Full House (Fairport Convention album)
Full House is the fifth album by folk rock group Fairport Convention, released in 1970.
Marc Ellington
Marc Ellington( born 16 December 1945, Boston, Lincolnshire, England) is a musician, with links to Fairport Convention and Matthews ’ Southern Comfort, who currently resides in Towie Barclay Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Over the Next Hill
Over the Next Hill is the 23rd studio album by the band Fairport Convention, released in 2004.

Question: Did the bands Castor (band) and Fairport Convention, originate from the same country?
Answer: no