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Live at the BBC (Fairport Convention album)

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Released
  
2007

Artist
  
Fairport Convention

Label
  
Island Records

Recorded
  
1968–1974

Release date
  
16 April 2007

Genre
  
Folk rock

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Fairport Convention albums, Folk rock albums

Live at the BBC is a compilation album by English folk-rock band Fairport Convention released in 2007. It includes tracks recorded for the BBC for various radio programmes between 1968 and 1974 and consists of four CDs in a fold-out package with a fifty-page booklet including song lyrics and numerous contemporary photographs.

Contents

Disc one

  1. "Close the Door Lightly When You Go" (Eric Andersen) – 2:57
  2. "I Don't Know Where I Stand" (Joni Mitchell) – 3.36
  3. "Some Sweet Day" (Felice & Boudleaux Bryant) – 2.16
  4. "You Never Wanted Me" (Jackson C. Frank) – 3.15
  5. "Nottamun Town" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 3.35
  6. "Marcie" (Joni Mitchell) – 3.34
  7. "Night in the City" (Joni Mitchell) – 3.05
  8. "Jack O'Diamonds" (Bob Dylan, Ben Carruthers) – 3.12
  9. "Gone, Gone, Gone" (Phil & Don Everly) – 1.59
  10. "Suzanne" (Leonard Cohen) – 5.25
  11. "If It Feels Good, You Know It Can't Be Wrong" (Richard Thompson & Ashley Hutchings) – 3.12
  12. "Eastern Rain" (Joni Mitchell) – 3.10
  13. "Fotheringay" (Sandy Denny) – 3.09
  14. "I Still Miss Someone" (Johnny Cash & Roy Cash) – 2.23
  15. "Bird on a Wire" (Leonard Cohen) – 3.27
  16. "Tried So Hard" (Gene Clark) – 2.54)
  17. "Reno, Nevada" (Richard Fariña) – 2.23
  18. "Book Song" (Ian Matthews & Richard Thompson) – 3.05
  19. "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" (Sandy Denny) – 4.14

Disc two

  1. "You're Gonna Need My Help" (Muddy Waters) – 3.56
  2. "Fotheringay" (Sandy Denny) – 3.01
  3. "Shattering Live Experience" (Simon Nicol) – 3.23
  4. "Cajun Woman" (Richard Thompson) – 2.44
  5. "Autopsy" (Sandy Denny) – 4.24
  6. "Si Tu Dois Partir" (Bob Dylan) – 2.25
  7. "Percy's Song" (Bob Dylan) – 5.25
  8. "Reynardine" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 4.19
  9. "Tam Lin" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick) – 7.46
  10. "Sir Patrick Spens" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 3.44
  11. "Medley: The Lark in the Morning/Rakish Paddy/Foxhunter's Jig/Toss the Feathers" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 4.12
  12. "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Rodgers and Hart) – 2.11
  13. "Walk Awhile" (Dave Swarbrick, Richard Thompson) – 4.00
  14. "Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman" (Richard Thompson, Dave Swarbrick) – 5.32
  15. "Doctor of Physick" (Dave Swarbrick, Richard Thompson) – 3.37

Disc three

  1. "Sir Patrick Spens" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 3.32
  2. "The Bonny Bunch of Roses" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick, Dave Mattacks, Simon Nicol, Richard Thompson – 10.53
  3. "Dirty Linen" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick) – 4.15
  4. "Now Be Thankful" (Richard Thompson, Dave Swarbrick) – 2.24
  5. "The Journeyman's Grace" (Dave Swarbrick, Richard Thompson) – 3.56
  6. "Now Be Thankful" (Richard Thompson, Dave Swarbrick) – 3.23
  7. "Tokyo" (Jerry Donahue) – 3.23
  8. "Matthew, Mark, Luke and John" (Dave Mattacks, Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg, Dave Swarbrick, Richard Thompson] (5.29)
  9. "Possibly Parsons Green" (Trevor Lucas, Pete Roche) – 4.27
  10. "Rosie" (Dave Swarbrick) – 4.02
  11. "John the Gun" (Sandy Denny) – 5.03
  12. "Fiddlestix" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick, Dave Mattacks, Dave Pegg, Jerry Donahue, Trevor Lucas) – 2.47
  13. "Rising for the Moon" (Sandy Denny) – 4.16
  14. "Down in the Flood" (Bob Dylan) – 3.27

Disc four

  1. "Let's Get Together" (Chet Powers) – 2.48
  2. "One Sure Thing" (Harvey Brooks, Jim Glover) – 3.35
  3. "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" (Bob Dylan) – 3.37
  4. "Chelsea Morning" (Joni Mitchell) – 3.01
  5. "Violets of Dawn" (Eric Andersen) – 3.53
  6. "If (Stomp)" (Ian MacDonald, Richard Thompson) – 2.35
  7. "Time Will Show the Wiser" (Emitt Rhodes) – 2.59
  8. "If I Had a Ribbon Bow" (Huey Prince, Louis Singer) – 2.34
  9. "Meet on the Ledge" (Richard Thompson) – 2.48
  10. "Light My Fire" (Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Robert Krieger, Ray Manzarek) – 1.20
  11. "Flatback Caper" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick, Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg, Dave Mattacks, Richard Thompson) – 6.23
  12. "Open the Door, Richard" (Bob Dylan) – 3.54
  13. "The Deserter" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 3.54
  14. "The Hangman's Reel" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick) – 3.23
  15. "Tam Lin" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick) – 8.03
  16. "Sir William Gower" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 4.47
  17. "Banks of the Sweet Primroses" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 4.09
  18. "Sickness and Diseases" (Dave Swarbrick, Richard Thompson) – 3.46
  19. "Bridge over the River Ash" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick, Dave Mattacks, Dave Pegg, Simon Nicol) – 2.09
  20. "Lord Marlborough" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 3.21
  21. "Angel Delight" (Dave Mattacks, Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg, Dave Swarbrick]) – 4.04

Personnel

  • Ashley Hutchings, bass [CD 1; CD 2 1–12; CD 4 1–10];
  • Martin Lamble, drums [CD 1; CD 2 1–7; CD 4 1–10];
  • Simon Nicol, guitar, vocals, backing vocals [CD 1; CD 2; CD 3 1–6; CD 4];
  • Richard Thompson, guitar, vocals [CD 1; CD 2; CD 3 1–6; CD 4];
  • Sandy Denny, vocals [CD 1; CD 2 1–10; CD 3 11–14];
  • Ian Matthews, vocals [CD 1; CD 2 1–3; CD 4 5–10];
  • Ric Grech, violin [CD 2 4–7];
  • Dave Mattacks, drums [CD 2 8–15; CD 3; CD 4 11–21];
  • Dave Swarbrick, violin, vocals [CD 2 8–15; CD 3; CD 4 11–21];
  • Dave Pegg, bass, fiddle, mandolin, backing vocals [CD 2 13–15; CD 3; CD 4 11–21];
  • Trevor Lucas, guitar, vocals [CD 3 7–14];
  • Jerry Donahue, guitar, vocals [CD 3 7–14];
  • Judy Dyble, vocals [CD 4 1–8]

    • Songs

    1Close The Door Lightly When You Go (BBC Session - Top Gear 2/6/68)2:57
    2I Don't Know Where I Stand (Live)3:37
    3Some Sweet Day (BBC Session - Top Gear 2/6/68)2:16

    References

    Live at the BBC (Fairport Convention album) Wikipedia
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