Fairport Convention Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking (1969) Expanded Remastered Reissue 2003 Music

Posted by Designol at Nov. 13, 2023

Unhalfbricking is the third album by British folk rock band Fairport Convention, released in 1969. It is seen as a transitional album in their history and marked a further musical move away from American influences towards more traditional English folk songs that had begun on their previous album, What We Did On Our Holidays and arguably reached its peak on the follow-up, Liege & Lief, released later the same year. In 2004 Q magazine placed Unhalfbricking at number 41 in its list of the 50 Greatest British Albums Ever, and in the same year The Observer, describing it as "a thoroughly English masterpiece", listed it at number 27 in its Top 100 British Albums. The following year, 2005, it was included in Robert Dimery's "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".

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Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking (1969) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014] PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDAtall at Nov. 22, 2024

Unhalfbricking was, if only in retrospect, a transitional album for the young Fairport Convention, in which the group shed its closest ties to its American folk-rock influences and started to edge toward a more traditional British folk-slanted sound. That shift wouldn't be definitive until their next album, Liege & Lief. But the strongest link to the American folk-rock harmony approach left with the departure of Ian Matthews, who left shortly after the sessions for Unhalfbricking began.

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Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking (1969) [2014, Universal Music Japan, UICY-40056] Music

Posted by v3122 at March 10, 2019

Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking (1969)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Universal Music Japan, UICY-40056 | ~ 245 or 107 Mb | Scans(png) -> 183 Mb
Folk Rock / Progressive Folk

Unhalfbricking was, if only in retrospect, a transitional album for the young Fairport Convention, in which the group shed its closest ties to its American folk-rock influences and started to edge toward a more traditional British folk-slanted sound…

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Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief (1969) Expanded Remastered 2002 Music

Posted by Designol at Sept. 30, 2023

Liege & Lief is the fourth album by the English folk rock band Fairport Convention. It is the third and final album the group released in the UK in 1969, all of which prominently feature Sandy Denny as lead female vocalist. (Denny did not appear on the group's 1968 debut album). It is also the very first Fairport album on which all songs have either been adapted (freely) from traditional British and Celtic folk material (for example "Matty Groves", "Tam Lin"), or else are original compositions (such as "Come All Ye", "Crazy Man Michael") written and performed in a similar style. By introducing songs of this genre into the group's repertoire Denny, who had previously sung and recorded traditional folk songs as a solo artist, was instrumental in this transformation. Although Denny quit the band even before the album's release, Fairport Convention has continued to the present day to make music almost exclusively within the traditional British folk music idiom, and are still most strongly associated with it.

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Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief (1969) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2010] PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDAtall at June 25, 2024

The best British folk-rock band of the late '60s, Fairport Convention did more than any other act to develop a truly British variation on the folk-rock prototype by drawing upon traditional material and styles indigenous to the British Isles. While the revved-up renditions of traditional British folk tunes drew the most critical attention, the group members were also (at least at the outset) talented songwriters as well as interpreters. They were comfortable with conventional harmony-based folk-rock as well as tunes that drew upon more explicitly traditional sources, and boasted some of the best singers and instrumentalists of the day. A revolving door of personnel changes, however, saw the exit of their most distinguished talents, and basically changed the band into a living museum piece after the early '70s, albeit an enjoyable one with integrity.

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Fairport Convention - Live At Rock City, Nottingham 1987 (2020) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Nov. 24, 2020

Fairport Convention - Live At Rock City, Nottingham 1987 (2020)
FLAC tracks | 1:59:42 | 728 Mb
Genre: Folk Rock / Label: Angel Air

Groupe emblématique du folk britannique, Fairport Convention se forme à Londres en 1967 à l'initiative du chanteur et guitariste Simon Nicol et du bassiste Ashley Hutchings. La formation complétée par Richard Thompson (chant, guitare), Judy Dyble (chant), Ian Matthews (chant) et Martin Lamble (batterie) vit en communauté et importe au Royaume-Uni le folk rock américain. Son répertoire inclut d'autres influences comme le rock'n'roll, le blues, les ballades traditionnelles et le rock psychédélique sur le premier album homonyme. La nouvelle chanteuse, Sandy Denny (1947-1978), fait ses débuts sur le disque suivant What We Did on Our Holidays (1969).

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Fairport Convention & Friends - A Tree With Roots: Fairport Convention and The Songs of Bob Dylan (2018) Music

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 10, 2019

Fairport Convention & Friends - A Tree With Roots: Fairport Convention and The Songs of Bob Dylan (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 353 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 163 Mb | 01:10:05
Folk Rock | Label: Universal Music

A new compilation of vintage covers of Bob Dylan’s work by Fairport Convention and their friends, A Tree With Roots — Fairport Convention And The Songs Of Bob Dylan, will be released on Island on 3 August. It comes just ahead of the 2018 edition of the band’s celebrated Cropredy Festival, which takes place this year from 9-11 August with Fairport themselves in the traditional headlining slot.

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Sandy Denny - A Boxful of Treasures (2004) 5 CD Box Set Music

Posted by Designol at April 29, 2024

A Boxful of Treasures is a 2004 compilation box set of recordings by folk rock legend Sandy Denny and comprises solo material and recordings made during her time as a member of Fotheringay, Fairport Convention, and other groups. The fifth CD contains previously unreleased tracks, most of which are demos recorded at Denny's home.

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Sandy Denny - The Complete Recordings Box (19 CDs, 2010) Music

Posted by Discograf_man at Aug. 3, 2018

A 19-CD box set? Twenty one and a half hours of music? A 72-page book? Artefacts that include a receipt for her first piano? Who said the music industry no longer had money to burn?
For anybody unfamiliar with Sandy Denny’s yearning, evocative songs, her teeteringly vulnerable vocal style and the erratic contours of a career that ended shockingly in a fall downstairs in 1978 when she was 31, this eye-watering project may seem like ludicrous indulgence.

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Richard Thompson - Walking On A Wire: 1968-2009 (2009) Music

Posted by Rtax at Aug. 16, 2024

Richard Thompson - Walking On A Wire: 1968-2009 (2009)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.7 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 721 MB
5:13:24 | Folk Rock | Label: Shout! Factory

Career-spanning four CD box set from the British Folk Rock legend spanning the years 1969-2009. The songs chosen for this selection of his work were carefully assembled and aim to provide a real sense of Richard Thompson, as well as to celebrate the diversity of his music - Rock 'n' Roll with Folk, Jazz, Rockabilly and the odd waltz thrown in - the scope of his songwriting, and the sheer virtuosity of his playing. Produced by Richard Thompson, Walking On A Wire impressively includes 71 tracks from albums released by 15 different labels, and includes a 60 page booklet with new notes by Patrick Humphries.
"A perennial dark-horse contender for the title of Greatest Living Rock Guitarist…. folks should be sated by this excellent 71-track primer, which also shows the U.K. vet as a world-class songwriter. 4.5 Stars" – Rolling Stone, August 9,2009

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