Fairport Convention - 25th Anniversary Concert

Title: 25th Anniversary Concert Artist: Fairport Convention Release Date: 10/10/1994 Label: Woodword Album Type(s): live UPC: 5017220110223 Genre: Folk Styles: Psychedelic, Folk-Rock, British Folk, Progressive Folk, British Folk-Rock Moods: Dramatic, Earnest, Passionate, Pastoral, Amiable/Good-Natured, Autumnal, Bittersweet, Intimate, Literate, Witty, Energetic, Gentle, Intense, Laid-Back/Mellow, Melancholy, Organic, Reflective, Rollicking, Searching, Sophisticated, Wistful Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Insult to Injury
2. I Wandered by a Brookside [Live]
3. Con Casey's Jig/Tripping Up the Stairs
4. It'll Take More Than the Blues
5. Close to the Wind
6. Girl from the North Country [Live]
7. Claudy Banks
8. John Barleycorn
9. Deserter
10. Million Dollar Bash
11. Tam Lin
12. Crazy Man Michael
13. Sloth
14. Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman [Live]
15. Bridge over the River Ash
16. Journeyman's Grace [Live]
17. Hexhamshire Lass
18. Rosie [Live]
19. Me With You
20. Polly on the Shore
21. Adieu Adieu
22. Hiring Fair
23. Red and Gold
24. Matty Groves
25. The Rutland Reel/Sack the Juggler
26. Si Tu Dois Partir

Year Type Label Catalog # ------ CD Woodword 51402

25th Anniversary Concert [2007]

Recorded live to DAT at a performance that had fiddler Chris Leslie filling in for Ric Sanders, who had injured himself in an accident involving a plate glass window (Sanders was able to provide keyboards, however), 25th Anniversary Concert was a festive outing with numerous guests (including Fairport founders Richard Thompson and Ashley Hutchings). The two-disc set ranges from the sublime (a ferocious, Boiled in Lead-style take of "Matty Groves") to the slightly surreal ("John Barleycorn" with the lyrics screwed up). The sound is unfortunately too bright and metallic, and the mix, taken from the soundboard, is sometimes atrocious, but trimming the highs helps with the former, while the latter, in the spirit of live shows, can simply be ignored. Not the best example of Fairport, but highly entertaining. [The CD was reissued in 2007.] ~ Steven McDonald, All Music Guide

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