Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention - Come All Ye: The First Ten Years (2017) Music

Posted by delpotro at Oct. 11, 2021

Fairport Convention - Come All Ye: The First Ten Years (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 2,45 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1,18 Gb | 08:46:46
Folk Rock | Label: Universal Music

Universal will issue a seven-CD Fairport Convention box set in July that features ‘key album tracks’, non-album singles, radio sessions and previously unreleased live recordings from all of the classic line-ups. This collection celebrates Fairport’s first 10 years, beginning with their eponymous debut for Polydor in 1968, through all of their albums for Island Records and finishing with tracks from their two albums for Vertigo, The Bonny Bunch of Roses and Tippers Tales.

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Fairport Convention - Meet On The Ledge The Classic Years 1967-1975 (2CD, 1999) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Aug. 31, 2023

Fairport Convention - Meet On The Ledge The Classic Years 1967-1975 (2CD, 1999)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:37:03 | 896 / 356 Mb
Genre: Folk Rock / Label: Universal-Island Records Ltd.

Fairport Convention have had their fair share of anthologies, but the double-disc set Meet on the Ledge: The Classic Years (1967-1975) is arguably the best yet, rivaling the classic Fairport Chronicles, which was released just as the classic lineup was splitting apart. Meet on the Ledge is more exhaustive than that collection, and it also boasts a number of rarities, including the previously unreleased "Bonny Bunch of Roses" and "Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman." Undoubtedly, those will be of interest to collectors, but the 32-track set is still primarily targeted at neophytes and casual fans. Happily, it fulfills its goal of offering a flawless introduction – not only does it provide a concise history of the band, but it's also tremendously entertaining. Which means that even if it satiates some appetites, it will whet others. But the best thing is that the compilation works well enough to remain entertaining, even if you know the albums inside out.

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Fairport Convention - Chronicles (2CD, 2007) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Aug. 31, 2023

Fairport Convention - Chronicles (2CD, 2007)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:31:15 | 848 / 345 Mb
Genre: Folk Rock / Label: Universal-Island Records Ltd

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.

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Fairport Convention - 35th Anniversary Concert (2017) Music

Posted by v3122 at June 4, 2020

Fairport Convention - 35th Anniversary Concert (2017)
DVD9: NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR | Dolby AC3, 2 ch, 192 kbps
Folk Rock | Secret Records | 02:01:08 + 00:32:04 | ~ 6.31 Gb

~ Filmed & Recorded during their 35th Anniversary Tour at The Anvil Theatre, Basingstoke, England, 23rd February 2002. ~

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Fairport Convention - Live at Rockpalast (Live at Rockpalast 23 March 1976) (2022) Music

Posted by Rtax at Jan. 13, 2023

Fairport Convention - Live at Rockpalast (Live at Rockpalast 23 March 1976) (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 227 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 97 MB
40:13 | Folk, Folk Rock | Label: Repertoire Records

Mainstays of British folk Fairport Convention performing live in 1976. 2022 sees Fairport Convention celebrate their 55th anniversary. Famous for the many who have joined and left only to re-join, remarkably everyone who was ever involved remains part of the band’s extended family, returning to the fold for an annual reunion festival at Cropredy in Oxfordshire.

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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 - Fame And Glory (2020) Music

Posted by delpotro at Nov. 20, 2020

Fairport Convention - Fame And Glory (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 449 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 156 Mb | 01:08:01
Folk Rock | Label: Explore Rights Management

Fame and Glory collects together all the tracks Fairport Convention recorded for Alan Simon’s rock operas Excalibur, Gaia and Anne de Bretagne. The band previously made this compilation available to its fans, but this mainstream release adds three tracks including a previously unreleased studio recording Goodbye My Friends.

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Fairport Convention - Live At The BBC (2007) [4CD Box Set] Music

Posted by v3122 at Nov. 27, 2021

Fairport Convention - Live At The BBC (2007)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Universal/Island, 9845385 | ~ 1149 or 499 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 17 Mb
Folk Rock

Is a four-CD box set of Fairport Convention 1967-1974 BBC recordings excessive? After all, even the Beatles only got two CDs of Beeb tracks into official release. But it really isn't too much for fans of the band, for the quality of most of the stuff here is truly good, even if the very best of it was already issued on the Heyday compilation…

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Fairport Convention - What We Did On Our Holidays (1969) Expanded Remastered 2003 Music

Posted by Designol at May 29, 2023

Digitally remastered edition of the 2nd Fairport Convention LP and the first to include the presence of Sandy Denny was recorded in 1968. It showcases a young group taking pleasure in singing and playing whatever took its' collective fancy, and doing this with surprising sensitivity, authority and musicality. Also evident is the trademark unpredictability and wacky sense of fun which marked their live concerts . Make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em puzzled; that was early Fairport. Includes 3 Bonus Tracks. "Throwaway Street Puzzle" was released as the b-side of the "Meet On The Ledge" single. "You're Gonna Need My Help" is a rare BBC Radio recording from 1969 and features a virtuoso slide-guitar performance by Richard Thompson. "Some Sweet Day" was originally recorded to be released as a single but was shelved in favour of "Meet On The Ledge".

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Fairport Convention - Rising For The Moon (1975) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2013] Music

Posted by gribovar at April 14, 2023

Although there's nothing here as overpowering as "Sailor's Life" or "Sloth," this record is still a choice release, as Sandy Denny's official return to Fairport. She wrote or co-wrote seven of its 11 songs, and dominates most of the others with her voice. This lineup (Denny, Dave Swarbrick, Dave Pegg, Jerry Donahue, Trevor Lucas, and Bruce Rowland, with Dave Mattacks - who quit partway through - drumming on some of the tracks) went for the gold with rock veteran Glyn Johns in the producer's spot. The result was the only Fairport album done after the departure of Richard Thompson that doesn't sound anemic in the electric guitar department. Some of the songs, especially the title track and "Restless," have the feel of compact, breezy pop/country-rock, reminiscent of the Eagles or Firefall, although it's hard to imagine either of those groups turning in anything with the ethereal beauty of Denny's performance on "White Dress" or "Dawn"…

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