TC34) Vinyl Record LP Fairport Convention UNHALFBRICKING Island 1969 ILPS 9102
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Description
This auction is for an original copy of Fairport Convention's third album "Unhalfbricking".
Made before the band's van crashed in which their drummer, Martin Lamble (aged only 19) and Richard Thompson's girlfriend, Jeannie Franklyn, both died (the rest of the band received various injuries) this was produced as the band gained wider recognition. Now regarded as a key group in the English folk rock movement this album was released before the seminal album Liege & Lief. By this time, female vocalist, Judy Dyble had been replaced by Sandy Denny - described by John Peel as having a voice that is "open space, low-volume, high intensity".
"A few British bands had earlier experimented with playing traditional English songs on electric instruments, but Fairport Convention was the first English band to do this in a concerted and focused way. Although this is often referred to today as folk rock, the bands and press of the time used the term electric folk or English folk to distinguish it from more American inspired music. The descriptions are now often used indiscriminately or forgotten; however, Fairport Convention's achievement was not to invent folk rock, but to create a distinctly English branch of the genre, which would develop alongside, and interact with, American inspired music, but which can also be seen as a distinctively national reaction in opposition to it."
This album is in a very good playable condition (I have a player and have tested it) - there are marks but these are only picked up on the last track "A Sailor's Life" of the first side for about a third of the track (see condition description and pictures). The covers are creased/dog-eared - and there's even a drinks mark on the inner sleeve - but the people who bought it probably did not realise the importance of this band - who are still touring and producing albums by the way! - whilst rocking out to it in their bedroom.
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