Fairport Convention - The Fairport Companion

Title: The Fairport Companion Artist: Fairport Convention Release Date: 5/9/2006 Label: Castle Music Ltd. Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 021823625225 Genre: Rock 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: 3 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 2

1. Rocky Road to Dublin & Drops of Brandy
2. Washington at Valley Forge
3. Can't Recall Her Name
4. Been on the Road So Long
5. Milk and Honey
6. Soldiers Three
7. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
8. Morning Way
9. Velvet to Atone
10. The Blackleg Miner
11. Lowlands of Holland
12. Twa Corbies
13. One Night as I Lay on My Bed
14. A Pretty Little Tune
15. Song for a Friend
16. Days Used to Be Much Warmer
17. Alligator Man
18. Baby Go Slow
19. Odyssey
20. Poor Murdererd Woman

1. Murder of Maria Marten
2. Rave On
3. Dangerous Dave
4. Rubber Band
5. Morris Dance Tunes
6. Franklin Avenue
7. Knowing the Game
8. Mistress's Health/Lumps of Plum Pudding/Sherborne Jig/Spaniards Cry
9. Targets
10. Here We Come A-Wassailing
11. St. Patrick's Breastplate
12. The Cutty Wren
13. A Sailor's Life/One More Day
14. It Suits Me Well
15. Boadicea
16. The Albion Band Is Here Again
17. The Electric Guitar Is King

Year Type Label Catalog # 2006 CD Castle Music Ltd. 36252

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For a band that's seen seven or more incarnations, Fairport Convention has remained a near-mythological Godhead for the british folk scene. Castle Music's sprawling Fairport Companion, complete with a hand-drawn family tree foldout from legendary illustrator/journalist Pete Frame, manages to dutifully represent nearly all of the group's major offshoots. Well-known tracks from the Ian Campbell Folk Group, Steeleye Span, Shirley Collins, and Dave Swarbick are nestled snugly against lesser-known offerings from Trader Horne, Lal and Mike Waterson, Shelagh McDonald, and Harvey Andrews and Graham Cooper -- even the Sandy Denny tracks, Alex Campbell's "Been on the Road So Long" and then-boyfriend Jackson C. Frank's "Milk and Honey" are long overlooked gems. The Fairport Companion should be handed out to anybody looking to make sense of the collective's annual Cropredy Festival, as it features nearly everyone who would be likely to take the stage, but it should also be required listening for anybody with even the most remote interest in the origins of English folk-rock, as it sounds -- albeit pleasurably -- like a lecture from a visiting professor. ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide

Name Credits Becky Stewart Design David Wells Compilation, Annotation Pete Frame Research, Drawing Potter Arranger Steeleye Span Arranger Steve Hammonds Project Coordinator Tyger Hutchings Arranger Will Nicol Project Coordinator