FOTHERINGAY: 1970 UK ISLAND 1st PRESS VINYL LP - NEAR MINT
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FOTHERINGAY: 1970 UK ISLAND 1st PRESS NEAR MINT
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UK ISLAND (ILPS 9125) FIRST PRESSING (June 1970) OF FOTHERINGAY'S ONLY RELEASE
LOVELY ORIGINAL COPY WHICH PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY THROUGHOUT
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST UK PINK ISLAND LABELS
MATRIX: ILPS 9125 A//2 11 2 / ILPS 9125 B//2 11 2
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL HEAVY GAUGE MATT GATEFOLD COVER, FACTORY SEALED ON THE LEFT SIDE EDGE, "Printed and made by the E. J. Day Group, London and Bedford”
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE DATED JUNE 1970 ('0670')
When Sandy Denny departed Fairport Convention, insisting that she wanted to concentrate upon her own songwriting rather than pursue the band's exploration of traditional English music, she never meant she also intended abandoning the folk idiom itself.
Although all but two of the songs on this, her first post-Fairport project, are indeed original compositions, it is readily apparent that, like former bandmate Richard Thompson, her greatest talents lay distinctly within the same traditions as the poets and balladeers of earlier centuries, while the fact that fully one-half of Fotheringay itself would eventually join Fairport illustrates the care that went into the band's formation.
Even the group's name resonates -- "Fotheringay" was also one of Denny's best-loved Fairport songs.
Listening to the album, too, one can see and hear the mothership all over the show, from the tight dynamics of "The Sea" to the simple beauty of "Winter Winds" and on to the showpiece "Banks of the Nile," a Napoleonic Wars-era ballad set firmly in the storytelling mold of "A Sailor's Life," "Tam Linn," and the post-Denny Fairport's own "Bonnie Bunch of Roses."
The presence of producer Joe Boyd and guest vocalist Linda Peters complete the sense of a family affair.
Where Fotheringay and Fairport drift apart is in the instrumentation -- one of Fairport's most-endearing talents, after all, was the sense of ramshackle adventure that the bandmembers brought to their recordings.
Fotheringay was far more "musicianly," packing a perfectionism that comes close, in places, to stifling the sheer exuberance of the music.
The overuse of Trevor Lucas' distinctly mannered vocals, too, reveals the album in a disappointing light -- great guitarist though he was, his voice offers nothing that you could not hear in any amateur folk club, any night of the week, rendering Dylan's "Too Much of Nothing," Gordon Lightfoot's "The Way I Feel," and his own "Ballad of Ned Kelly" little more than makeweights. Such failings are completely overshadowed, of course, by the triumphs that are Denny's finest contributions -- the best of which close the album on a peak unheard since "The Sea," back at the beginning of the cycle.
"The Banks of the Nile" rates among the loveliest and most evocative performances of her entire career, while the hauntingly hypnotic "Two Weeks Last Summer" and a moody "Gypsy Davey" draw out an expressiveness that had similarly been in short supply elsewhere on the record.
The end result is an album that, while every Denny fan should hear it, is best experienced sliced and diced across the various compilations that purport to tell the story of Fairport Convention. Bereft of the faults that never make those collections, Fotheringay deserves every kind word that has ever been sent in the band's direction.
Side 1:
Nothing More (4:34)
The Sea (5:25)
The Ballad Of Ned Kelly (3:29)
Winter Winds (2:20)
Peace In The End (7:21)
Side 2:
The Way I Feel (3:52)
The Pond And The Stream (3:13)
Too Much Of Nothing (4:40)
Banks Of The Nile (8:18)
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels which have lost none of their strong, vibrant pink colour and carry only a few light spindle traces.
Seen little play
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces shine like new with nothing but harmless wispy hairlines under bright light
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Outstanding sound quality to this first pressing (gorgeous deep, rich production from Joe Boyd) and my play-check at volume found little to fault.
Just an occasional light tick (non-continuous - no scratches - very minor) otherwise, plays beautifully - lovely original copy
SLEEVE: VERY GOOD
A fine example with the common rub, ring and slight price label removal damage but nothing major
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