The next album SpaceAce submitted to this project is the fourth studio album from Fairport Convention, number 485 in The List.
This is the only album of the 25 SpaceAce submitted that is also on the “official” list. Like many other contributors to The List, SpaceAce was quite careful to submit only albums were “other” (i.e., that had been missed by the official list), so I’m going to take the inclusion of this one as an emphatic “you got to listen to this…or else, HA HA”.
This is the last Fairport album to feature the spectacular Sandy Denny on vocals. Denny had joined the band the previous year, and together they put out three releases. Denny is credited with nudging Fairport away from being a “British Jefferson Airplane” (i.e., worshipping at the altar of American music) towards being a full-on British folk rock band. Denny quit the band soon after Liege & Lief was released, and formed Fotheringay, whose only release we’ll eventually meet in another spotlight (not submitted by SpaceAce, but I imagine only because it had already been added to The List before he joined the project). As mentioned in our previous 6 Degrees of Separation series, we’ll also hear from Denny again when we get to Led Zeppelin IV. In the meantime, thanks to SpaceAce, we’ll lay our Denny foundation with this lovely album.
In memory of our dearly missed friend, let’s raise a glass and take a listen together.
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