Released February 1973 Genre Folk-rock | Release date February 1973 | |
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Fairport convention rosie
Rosie is the eighth studio album by folk-rock outfit Fairport Convention, released in 1973.
Contents
The album was the first to feature Australian singer-songwriter guitarist Trevor Lucas and American lead guitarist Jerry Donahue. Both had previously played with ex-Fairport Sandy Denny, to whom Lucas was married, in the short-lived Fotheringay. Here they had effectively replaced Simon Nicol who had quit Fairport to join another ex-member Ashley Hutchings in The Albion Band, thus leaving the band with no founding members until he rejoined in 1976.
Drummer Dave Mattacks also joined the Albion Band for a while but rejoined during the making of Rosie. He only plays on four of the ten tracks; on others drums are handled alternately by Tim Donald and Gerry Conway. Like Donahue and Lucas, Conway was also ex-Fotheringay, and would himself join Fairport in 1998; he remains with them to this day.
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Side one
- "Rosie" (Dave Swarbrick)
- "Matthew, Mark, Luke & John" (Dave Pegg, Dave Swarbrick)
- "Knights of the Road" (Trevor Lucas, Peter Roche)
- "Peggy's Pub" (Dave Pegg)
- "The Plainsman" (words: Peter Roche/music: traditional, arranged by Trevor Lucas)
Side two
- "Hungarian Rhapsody" (Dave Pegg)
- "My Girl" (Dave Swarbrick)
- "Me With You" (Dave Swarbrick)
- "The Hen's March Through the Midden" (traditional, arranged by Fairport Convention)
- "Furs and Feathers" (Dave Swarbrick)
A 2004 Island issue, in addition to the previous tracks, featured also the following bonus tracks recorded live on 23 April 1973 at The Howff in London:
- "Matthew, Mark, Luke & John" (Dave Pegg, Dave Swarbrick)
- "The Hens March Through the Midden & the Four Poster Bed" (traditional, arranged by Fairport Convention)
- "Rosie" (remix)
- "The Claw" (Jerry Reed)
- "Furs and Feathers" (Dave Swarbrick)
Personnel
Songs
1Rosie3:39
2Matthew - Mark - Luke & John3:56
3Knights of the Road3:56