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Fairport Live Convention

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Released
  
July 1974

Release date
  
July 1974

Genre
  
Folk rock

Artist
  
Fairport Convention

Label
  
Island Masters

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Recorded
  
December 1973 - January 1974

Producer
  
Trevor Lucas & John Wood

Fairport Live Convention (1974)
  
Rising for the Moon (1975)

Similar
  
Fairport Convention albums, Folk rock albums

Fairport Live Convention is a folk rock album by Fairport Convention originally released in 1974 by Island Records. It was recorded live at the Sydney Opera House, the London Rainbow and the Fairfield Halls, Croydon by John Wood and mixed down at Sound Techniques, London. It was produced by Trevor Lucas & John Wood.

Contents

The album was titled A Moveable Feast in the United States and Canada and Fairport Convention Live '75 in Germany.

The original UK LP issue included an inner sleeve photograph of the band posing on the steps of the Sydney Opera House, with Dave Mattacks sporting a shirt bearing the prominent legend "Harrison Birtwistle where its at".

Side one

(as rendered on the original release)

  1. "Matty Groves" (Traditional; arranged by Denny, Pegg, Mattacks, Lucas, Swarbrick, Donahue)
  2. "Rosie" (Swarbrick)
  3. "Fiddlestix" (Traditional; arranged by Lucas, Swarbrick, Donahue, Mattacks, Pegg)
  4. "John the Gun" (Denny)
  5. "Something You Got" (Chris Kenner)

Side two

  1. "Sloth" (Thompson, Swarbrick)
  2. "Dirty Linen" (Traditional; arranged by Swarbrick)
  3. "Down in the Flood" (Bob Dylan)
  4. "Sir B. MacKenzie" (Swarbrick, Thompson, Nicol, Mattacks)

Bonus tracks on CD reissue

  1. "The Hexhamshire Lass" (Bob Davenport, Traditional; arranged by Fairport Convention) – 4.09
  2. "Polly on the Shore" (Traditional; arranged by Dave Swarbrick, Trevor Lucas) – 5.12
  3. "Bring 'Em Down" (Trevor Lucas) – 11.39
  4. "Far From Me" (John Prine) – 3.16
  5. "That'll Be the Day" (Jerry Allison, Buddy Holly, Norman Petty) – 3.19

Personnel

  • Sandy Denny – vocals, piano
  • Trevor Lucas – acoustic guitars, vocals
  • Jerry Donahue – electric guitar, vocals
  • Dave Swarbrick – fiddle, vocals
  • Dave Pegg – bass guitar
  • Dave Mattacks – drums

    • Also credited on the original LP sleeve - stage mix by Phil Benton and Roger Proctor, photographs by Stephen Westlund and design co-ordination by Fabio Nicoll Associates and Dave Mattacks.

    Songs

    1Matty Groves7:51
    2Rosie4:15
    3Fiddlestix2:47

    References

    Fairport Live Convention Wikipedia
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