FAIRPORT CONVENTION Liege & Lief UK Pink Island LP Folk

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FAIRPORT CONVENTION

Liege & Lief

Original UK LP released on Island Records in 1969. Pink Island label. Gatefold sleeve.

ILPS 9115 * A//1   ILPS 9115 * B//1

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In the decades since its original release, more than one writer has declared Fairport Convention's Liege & Lief the definitive British folk-rock album, a distinction it holds at least in part because it grants equal importance to all three parts of that formula. While Fairport had begun dipping their toes into British traditional folk with their stellar version of "A Sailor's Life" on Unhalfbricking, Liege & Lief found them diving head first into the possibilities of England's musical past, with Ashley Hutchings digging through the archives at the Cecil Sharp House in search of musical treasure, and the musicians (in particular vocalist Sandy Denny) eagerly embracing the dark mysteries of this music. (Only two of the album's eight songs were group originals, though "Crazy Man Michael" and "Come All Ye" hardly stand out from their antique counterparts.)

Liege & Lief was also recorded after a tour bus crash claimed the lives of original Fairport drummer Martin Lamble and Richard Thompson's girlfriend; as the members of the group worked to shake off the tragedy (and break in new drummer Dave Mattacks and full-time fiddler Dave Swarbrick), they became a stronger and more adventurous unit, less interested in the neo-Jefferson Airplane direction of their earlier work and firmly committed to fusing time-worn folk with electric instruments while honouring both. And while Liege & Lief was the most purely folk-oriented Fairport Convention album to date, it also rocked hard in a thoroughly original and uncompromising way; the "Lark in the Morning" medley swings unrelentingly, the group's crashing dynamics wring every last ounce of drama from "Tam Lin" and "Matty Groves," and Thompson and Swarbrick's soloing is dazzling throughout.

Liege & Lief introduced a large new audience to the beauty of British folk, but Fairport Convention's interpretations spoke of the present as much as the past, and the result was timeless music in the best sense of the term.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Come All Ye

Reynardine

Matty Groves

Farewell, Farewell

Side Two

The Deserter

Medley: The Lark In The Morning; Rakish Paddy; Foxhunter's Jig; Toss The Feathers

Tam Lin

Crazy Man Michael

Released on 'Island Records' in 1969

Catalogue No. ILPS 9115

Disc is in EX condition (light surface marks from poly inner)

Sleeve is in EX++ condition

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