History of Progressive Folk [Import]

Product Description:
Two disc compilation featuring The Strawbs, Pentangle, Steeleye Span, Karnataka, Lindisfarne, Mostly Autumn, Fairport convention, & more. Retro. 2004.

History of Progressive Folk,Various Artists,Proper,Folk,Folk Collections

Average customer rating: The Best Place To Start A solid one-disc compilation of Fairport's greatest period Good things last.....

History of Fairport Convention Fairport Convention Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD British Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Folk | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Liege & Lief Unhalfbricking ASIN: B000026FPM Release Date: 1995-07-03

Tracks:

1. Meet On The Ledge
2. Fotheringay
3. Mr Lacey
4. Book Song
5. Sailor's Life
6. Si Tu Dois Partir
7. Who Knows Where The Time Goes
8. Matty Groves
9. Now Be Thankful
10. Walk Awhile
11. Sloth
12. Bonny Black Hare
13. Angel Delight
14. Bridge Over The River Ash
15. John Lee
16. Breakfast In Mayfair
17. Hanging Song
18. The Hen's March/The Four Poster Bed

Album Description

1972 compilation is a good selection of the better songs recorded by the group from What We Did on Our Holidays (1969) thru Babbacombe Lee (1971), including 'Sailor's Life', 'Who Knows Where the Time Goes', 'Meet On the Ledge', 'Si Tu Dois Partir', 'Matty Groves', 'Sloth' & 'Angel Delight'. 18 tracks. Island.

Customer Reviews:

The Best Place To Start.......2005-07-09

Fairport isn't Fairport without both Richard Thompson and Sandy Denny, which is why this is the best place for a beginner to tap into this amazing band. Other compilations such as "Meet on the Ledge" include too much of their less-productive years (which by the standards of most other groups would be considered fertile). It's a coin toss as to whether their best album is "Unhalfbricking" or "Liege and Leif." I prefer the latter because I'm a folkie, but if you're into rock you might like the former (or you just like it for its great title). But those two albums alone don't give you enough of an introduction to Fairport, because you miss many great tunes like "Just A Roll." You would think that, because what made them so special at the time was their unique blend of British folk and rock, that they wouldn't age well as that genre has been done to death. You would think wrong.

A solid one-disc compilation of Fairport's greatest period.......2002-03-24

This Island compilation covers seven albums from 1968 to 1973, when Fairport Convention recorded most of its best work. Strictly speaking, it's not a "Greatest Hits" album, because Fairport never really had any hits. But this is probably the best place to begin for any newcomer to Fairport. The album touches all the bases: Fairport classics "Meet on the Ledge", "Si Tu Dois Partir", and "Matty Groves", singer-songwriter material like "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" and "Book Song", songs that seem to exist outside of time like "Fotheringay" and "Now Be Thankful", the musical interplay of "Sloth", and electrified traditional songs like "A Sailor's Life". The only things that keep this from being fully representative of Fairport's career are the lack of drinking songs and songs about lost maidenheads. The oft-neglected "Babbacombe Lee" album is represented by three songs. There are a few quibbles in the song selection--for example, why is the "Rosie" album represented by the average "Hen's March/Four Poster Bed" instead of the exceptional title cut? Why "Mr. Lacey" and "Book Song" instead of "I'll Keep It with Mine", "Come All Ye", or "Tam Lin"? This version of the CD adds "Crazy Man Michael", which was not originally included. Fairport's first, pre-Sandy Denny, album is not included because it was put out by Polygram and not Island.

Good things last............2001-08-23

Vinyl wears, no matter how careful you are, but certain music lasts because it lodges in the heart.

To hear the purity of Sandy Denny's voice, pre-empting Eva Cassidy by nearly 30 years; to listen to the poetry of her words in her lover's song "Who knows where the time goes", seeing that deserted shore in our minds eye - this was one of the greatest ballads of the last century.

Yet there is laughter and merriment here too. The English folk tunes tumble over one another with the violin getting your feet tapping in tunes like "Four Poster Bed; Hen's March or Toss the Feathers".

You must feel sorrow for poor "Matty Groves", who found himself in such an awkward position and such an unfair fight! Never did a young man need to learn the value of saying "No thanks" to such a tempting offer.

Fairport Convention was a band that experienced both the cruel and carefree sides of life and put their experiences into their music. There is something for all moods in this excellent compilation.

But most of all there is Sandy's haunting, clear voice. It is worth buying these recordings for that alone..

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A History of Progressive Folk Various Artists Manufacturer: Retro Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Folk | Styles | Music Folk | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0001YL68A Release Date: 2006-10-23

Tracks:

1. Matty Groves - Dirty Linen
2. With The Circle Be Unbroken
3. Black Jack Davy
4. Prints In The Stone
5. Lady Eleanor
6. Heaven Can Wait
7. Now Be Thankful
8. Ringing Down The Years
9. Willy O'winsbury
10. Shindig
11. Thomas The Rhymer
12. Lay Down
13. People On The Highway
14. Meet Me On The Corner
15. Cam Ye O'er Frae France
16. Meet On The Ledge
17. The River-Down By The Sea
18. Anyway The Wind Blows
19. Madeleine
20. No Love Is Sorrow
21. Shrinking Violet
22. After The Rain

Album Description

Two disc compilation featuring The Strawbs, Pentangle, Steeleye Span, Karnataka, Lindisfarne, Mostly Autumn, Fairport convention, & more. Retro. 2004.

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Remember Rome Manufacturer: Ars Nova Productions ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAEW20 Release Date: 1999-10-26

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