#fairportconvention — Public Fediverse posts
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Fairport Convention:
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Fairport Convention:
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Fairport Convention:
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Fairport Convention:
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Fairport Convention:
🎵 Who Knows Where The Time Goes?https://graceandfrankie.bandcamp.com/track/who-knows-where-the-time-goes
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Fairport Convention:
🎵 Who Knows Where The Time Goes?https://graceandfrankie.bandcamp.com/track/who-knows-where-the-time-goes
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Fairport Convention:
🎵 Who Knows Where The Time Goes?https://graceandfrankie.bandcamp.com/track/who-knows-where-the-time-goes
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Fairport Convention:
🎵 Who Knows Where The Time Goes?https://graceandfrankie.bandcamp.com/track/who-knows-where-the-time-goes
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Fairport Convention:
🎵 Who Knows Where The Time Goes?https://graceandfrankie.bandcamp.com/track/who-knows-where-the-time-goes
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Fairport Convention:
🎵 Who Knows Where The Time Goes?https://graceandfrankie.bandcamp.com/track/who-knows-where-the-time-goes
https://open.spotify.com/track/43IYZ1zQpbXXWhGQEgjAjb
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New #review today: "#TheOwlService is an English alternative folk music collective formed in 2006 by multi-instrumentalist #StevePaulCollins. Back in 1990 Collins was a teen, and unsurprisingly a metalhead. One day, while working in his local record shop he discovered #Fotheringay’s 1970 debut album, and a new world opened up. His love of #SandyDenny’s music led to the formation of The Owl Service sixteen years later." #ExposeOnline #FairportConvention #FolkRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-owl-service-a-tribute-to-sandy-denny-6.html
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New #review today: "#TheOwlService is an English alternative folk music collective formed in 2006 by multi-instrumentalist #StevePaulCollins. Back in 1990 Collins was a teen, and unsurprisingly a metalhead. One day, while working in his local record shop he discovered #Fotheringay’s 1970 debut album, and a new world opened up. His love of #SandyDenny’s music led to the formation of The Owl Service sixteen years later." #ExposeOnline #FairportConvention #FolkRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-owl-service-a-tribute-to-sandy-denny-6.html
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New #review today: "#TheOwlService is an English alternative folk music collective formed in 2006 by multi-instrumentalist #StevePaulCollins. Back in 1990 Collins was a teen, and unsurprisingly a metalhead. One day, while working in his local record shop he discovered #Fotheringay’s 1970 debut album, and a new world opened up. His love of #SandyDenny’s music led to the formation of The Owl Service sixteen years later." #ExposeOnline #FairportConvention #FolkRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-owl-service-a-tribute-to-sandy-denny-6.html
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New #review today: "#TheOwlService is an English alternative folk music collective formed in 2006 by multi-instrumentalist #StevePaulCollins. Back in 1990 Collins was a teen, and unsurprisingly a metalhead. One day, while working in his local record shop he discovered #Fotheringay’s 1970 debut album, and a new world opened up. His love of #SandyDenny’s music led to the formation of The Owl Service sixteen years later." #ExposeOnline #FairportConvention #FolkRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-owl-service-a-tribute-to-sandy-denny-6.html
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New #review today: "#TheOwlService is an English alternative folk music collective formed in 2006 by multi-instrumentalist #StevePaulCollins. Back in 1990 Collins was a teen, and unsurprisingly a metalhead. One day, while working in his local record shop he discovered #Fotheringay’s 1970 debut album, and a new world opened up. His love of #SandyDenny’s music led to the formation of The Owl Service sixteen years later." #ExposeOnline #FairportConvention #FolkRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-owl-service-a-tribute-to-sandy-denny-6.html
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🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Fairport Convention:
🎵 Si tu dois partir#NowPlaying #FairportConvention
https://troubadoursoffolk.bandcamp.com/track/si-tu-dois-partir
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🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Fairport Convention:
🎵 Si tu dois partir#NowPlaying #FairportConvention
https://troubadoursoffolk.bandcamp.com/track/si-tu-dois-partir
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheRiseAndFallOf
Fairport Convention:
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheRiseAndFallOf
Fairport Convention:
🎵 Matty Groves -
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheRiseAndFallOf
Fairport Convention:
🎵 Matty Groves -
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheRiseAndFallOf
Fairport Convention:
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Fairport Convention:
🎵 Who Knows Where The Time Goes?https://mastersoffolk.bandcamp.com/track/who-knows-where-the-time-goes-live
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Fairport Convention:
🎵 Who Knows Where The Time Goes?https://mastersoffolk.bandcamp.com/track/who-knows-where-the-time-goes-live
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Fairport Convention:
🎵 Who Knows Where The Time Goes?https://mastersoffolk.bandcamp.com/track/who-knows-where-the-time-goes-live
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Fairport Convention:
🎵 Who Knows Where The Time Goes?https://mastersoffolk.bandcamp.com/track/who-knows-where-the-time-goes-live
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Recorded #OnThisDay 56 years ago:
Fairport Convention - Tam Lin (Peel Session)
Tam Lin by Fairport Convention, taken from the Peel Session recorded on 23 September 1969.
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Recorded #OnThisDay 56 years ago:
Fairport Convention - Tam Lin (Peel Session)
Tam Lin by Fairport Convention, taken from the Peel Session recorded on 23 September 1969.
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Recorded #OnThisDay 56 years ago:
Fairport Convention - Tam Lin (Peel Session)
Tam Lin by Fairport Convention, taken from the Peel Session recorded on 23 September 1969.
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Recorded #OnThisDay 56 years ago:
Fairport Convention - Tam Lin (Peel Session)
Tam Lin by Fairport Convention, taken from the Peel Session recorded on 23 September 1969.
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Self-Titled Summer | Fotheringay (1970, UK)
Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 280 on The List, submitted by baz. Fotheringay was a short-lived British folk rock quintet formed by Sandy Denny after she left Fairport Convention, along with Denny’s partner and Australian guitarist Trevor Lucas plus drummer Gerry Conway (both formerly of folk psych prog rock band Eclection), and American guitarist Jerry Donahue and Scottish bassist Pat Donaldson (both formerly of prog psych group Poet and The One Man Band). While the band members would work together again on solo projects and in Fairport Convention, this was the group's only studio album.
Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: https://1001otheralbums.com/2025/08/09/self-titled-summer-fotheringay-1970-uk/Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QmMr1RfdVw. It's also on Dailymotion here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x263bv2
Happy listening!
#Fotheringay #SandyDenny #TrevorLucas #GerryConway #JerryDonahue #PatDonaldson #FairportConvention #BritishFolk #FolkRock #selftitled #music #1001OtherAlbums
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Self-Titled Summer | Fotheringay (1970, UK)
Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 280 on The List, submitted by baz. Fotheringay was a short-lived British folk rock quintet formed by Sandy Denny after she left Fairport Convention, along with Denny’s partner and Australian guitarist Trevor Lucas plus drummer Gerry Conway (both formerly of folk psych prog rock band Eclection), and American guitarist Jerry Donahue and Scottish bassist Pat Donaldson (both formerly of prog psych group Poet and The One Man Band). While the band members would work together again on solo projects and in Fairport Convention, this was the group's only studio album.
Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: https://1001otheralbums.com/2025/08/09/self-titled-summer-fotheringay-1970-uk/Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QmMr1RfdVw. It's also on Dailymotion here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x263bv2
Happy listening!
#Fotheringay #SandyDenny #TrevorLucas #GerryConway #JerryDonahue #PatDonaldson #FairportConvention #BritishFolk #FolkRock #selftitled #music #1001OtherAlbums
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Self-Titled Summer | Fotheringay (1970, UK)
Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 280 on The List, submitted by baz. Fotheringay was a short-lived British folk rock quintet formed by Sandy Denny after she left Fairport Convention, along with Denny’s partner and Australian guitarist Trevor Lucas plus drummer Gerry Conway (both formerly of folk psych prog rock band Eclection), and American guitarist Jerry Donahue and Scottish bassist Pat Donaldson (both formerly of prog psych group Poet and The One Man Band). While the band members would work together again on solo projects and in Fairport Convention, this was the group's only studio album.
Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: https://1001otheralbums.com/2025/08/09/self-titled-summer-fotheringay-1970-uk/Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QmMr1RfdVw. It's also on Dailymotion here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x263bv2
Happy listening!
#Fotheringay #SandyDenny #TrevorLucas #GerryConway #JerryDonahue #PatDonaldson #FairportConvention #BritishFolk #FolkRock #selftitled #music #1001OtherAlbums
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Self-Titled Summer | Fotheringay (1970, UK)
Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 280 on The List, submitted by baz. Fotheringay was a short-lived British folk rock quintet formed by Sandy Denny after she left Fairport Convention, along with Denny’s partner and Australian guitarist Trevor Lucas plus drummer Gerry Conway (both formerly of folk psych prog rock band Eclection), and American guitarist Jerry Donahue and Scottish bassist Pat Donaldson (both formerly of prog psych group Poet and The One Man Band). While the band members would work together again on solo projects and in Fairport Convention, this was the group's only studio album.
Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: https://1001otheralbums.com/2025/08/09/self-titled-summer-fotheringay-1970-uk/Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QmMr1RfdVw. It's also on Dailymotion here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x263bv2
Happy listening!
#Fotheringay #SandyDenny #TrevorLucas #GerryConway #JerryDonahue #PatDonaldson #FairportConvention #BritishFolk #FolkRock #selftitled #music #1001OtherAlbums
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Self-Titled Summer | Fotheringay (1970, UK)
Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 280 on The List, submitted by baz. Here’s a quick rundown:
- Point of origin(s): Fotheringay was a British folk rock quintet formed by Sandy Denny after she left Fairport Convention (following the release of their 1969 Liege & Leaf, which we looked at nearly a year ago in a SpaceAce Sunday), named after Denny’s song of the same name from the Fairport Convention album What We Did on Our Holidays. The other members were Denny’s partner and Australian guitarist Trevor Lucas plus drummer Gerry Conway (both formerly of folk psych prog rock band Eclection), and American guitarist Jerry Donahue and Scottish bassist Pat Donaldson (both formerly of prog psych group Poet and The One Man Band). This was their debut album.
- Tasting notes: Folk rock with some jazzy bits, Sandy Denny’s remarkable voice, wistful longing
- Standout track: Their cover of Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Way I Feel” – I want that song to last forever. The opener “Nothing More”, the first piano track Denny would write, is also fantastic (as it is on their live album, Essen 1970, released in 2011).
- Where are they now?/RIP: This is the only album released while the original lineup was together. They disbanded in January 1971 during recording sessions for a second album. While some of this material would later be released in 2008 under the title 2, some was used for Denny’s debut solo album (the 1971 The North Star Grassman and the Ravens) and on a Fairport Convention album (the 1972 Rosie), as Conway, Donahue, and Lucas had all joined that band after Fotheringay broke up (Donahue and Lucas from 1972-5, Conway just briefly at the time as a session musician, but then again later from 1998-2022). Denny would go on to have a successful but short solo career (with her former bandmates appearing on some of her albums), and would also briefly rejoin Fairport Convention in 1974-5. She tragically died in 1978 at the age of 31. Lucas then returned to Australia and mainly worked as a producer and film score composer until his death in 1989. In addition to his long stint in Fairport Convention, Conway was also in Pentangle from 1987 until his death just last year (he was married to Pentangle’s singer, Jacqui McShee). Donahue has a rather lengthy CV, working as both a musician (including guitar trio The Hellecasters plus being in The Yardbirds around 2004-5) and producer, at least up until a stroke in 2016 that affected his ability to play guitar. Donaldson was also in a few other bands and worked as a session musician (including for John Cale and Stevie Nicks)[1] at least into the 2010s. Quite a group, this one.
- Websites: Wikipedia
Happy listening!
- Though a non-Fotheringay/Fairport Convention-related tidbit, a fun find for me in writing this up is Donaldson’s work on Mae McKenna’s Everything That Touches Me (1976). I know this album as McKenna is the mother of Jamie Woon, whose debut LP we’ll see in a future spotlight because I had added it to The List. ↩︎
#1970s #BritishFolk #FairportConvention #folkRock #Fotheringay #GerryConway #JerryDonahue #music #musicDiscovery #PatDonaldson #SandyDenny #selftitled #TrevorLucas
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Self-Titled Summer | Fotheringay (1970, UK)
Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 280 on The List, submitted by baz. Here’s a quick rundown:
- Point of origin(s): Fotheringay was a British folk rock quintet formed by Sandy Denny after she left Fairport Convention (following the release of their 1969 Liege & Leaf, which we looked at nearly a year ago in a SpaceAce Sunday), named after Denny’s song of the same name from the Fairport Convention album What We Did on Our Holidays. The other members were Denny’s partner and Australian guitarist Trevor Lucas plus drummer Gerry Conway (both formerly of folk psych prog rock band Eclection), and American guitarist Jerry Donahue and Scottish bassist Pat Donaldson (both formerly of prog psych group Poet and The One Man Band). This was their debut album.
- Tasting notes: Folk rock with some jazzy bits, Sandy Denny’s remarkable voice, wistful longing
- Standout track: Their cover of Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Way I Feel” – I want that song to last forever. The opener “Nothing More”, the first piano track Denny would write, is also fantastic (as it is on their live album, Essen 1970, released in 2011).
- Where are they now?/RIP: This is the only album released while the original lineup was together. They disbanded in January 1971 during recording sessions for a second album. While some of this material would later be released in 2008 under the title 2, some was used for Denny’s debut solo album (the 1971 The North Star Grassman and the Ravens) and on a Fairport Convention album (the 1972 Rosie), as Conway, Donahue, and Lucas had all joined that band after Fotheringay broke up (Donahue and Lucas from 1972-5, Conway just briefly at the time as a session musician, but then again later from 1998-2022). Denny would go on to have a successful but short solo career (with her former bandmates appearing on some of her albums), and would also briefly rejoin Fairport Convention in 1974-5. She tragically died in 1978 at the age of 31. Lucas then returned to Australia and mainly worked as a producer and film score composer until his death in 1989. In addition to his long stint in Fairport Convention, Conway was also in Pentangle from 1987 until his death just last year (he was married to Pentangle’s singer, Jacqui McShee). Donahue has a rather lengthy CV, working as both a musician (including guitar trio The Hellecasters plus being in The Yardbirds around 2004-5) and producer, at least up until a stroke in 2016 that affected his ability to play guitar. Donaldson was also in a few other bands and worked as a session musician (including for John Cale and Stevie Nicks)[1] at least into the 2010s. Quite a group, this one.
- Websites: Wikipedia
Happy listening!
- Though a non-Fotheringay/Fairport Convention-related tidbit, a fun find for me in writing this up is Donaldson’s work on Mae McKenna’s Everything That Touches Me (1976). I know this album as McKenna is the mother of Jamie Woon, whose debut LP we’ll see in a future spotlight because I had added it to The List. ↩︎
#1970s #britishFolk #fairportConvention #folkRock #fotheringay #gerryConway #jerryDonahue #music #musicDiscovery #patDonaldson #sandyDenny #selftitled #trevorLucas
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Self-Titled Summer | Fotheringay (1970, UK)
Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 280 on The List, submitted by baz. Here’s a quick rundown:
- Point of origin(s): Fotheringay was a British folk rock quintet formed by Sandy Denny after she left Fairport Convention (following the release of their 1969 Liege & Leaf, which we looked at nearly a year ago in a SpaceAce Sunday), named after Denny’s song of the same name from the Fairport Convention album What We Did on Our Holidays. The other members were Denny’s partner and Australian guitarist Trevor Lucas plus drummer Gerry Conway (both formerly of folk psych prog rock band Eclection), and American guitarist Jerry Donahue and Scottish bassist Pat Donaldson (both formerly of prog psych group Poet and The One Man Band). This was their debut album.
- Tasting notes: Folk rock with some jazzy bits, Sandy Denny’s remarkable voice, wistful longing
- Standout track: Their cover of Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Way I Feel” – I want that song to last forever. The opener “Nothing More”, the first piano track Denny would write, is also fantastic (as it is on their live album, Essen 1970, released in 2011).
- Where are they now?/RIP: This is the only album released while the original lineup was together. They disbanded in January 1971 during recording sessions for a second album. While some of this material would later be released in 2008 under the title 2, some was used for Denny’s debut solo album (the 1971 The North Star Grassman and the Ravens) and on a Fairport Convention album (the 1972 Rosie), as Conway, Donahue, and Lucas had all joined that band after Fotheringay broke up (Donahue and Lucas from 1972-5, Conway just briefly at the time as a session musician, but then again later from 1998-2022). Denny would go on to have a successful but short solo career (with her former bandmates appearing on some of her albums), and would also briefly rejoin Fairport Convention in 1974-5. She tragically died in 1978 at the age of 31. Lucas then returned to Australia and mainly worked as a producer and film score composer until his death in 1989. In addition to his long stint in Fairport Convention, Conway was also in Pentangle from 1987 until his death just last year (he was married to Pentangle’s singer, Jacqui McShee). Donahue has a rather lengthy CV, working as both a musician (including guitar trio The Hellecasters plus being in The Yardbirds around 2004-5) and producer, at least up until a stroke in 2016 that affected his ability to play guitar. Donaldson was also in a few other bands and worked as a session musician (including for John Cale and Stevie Nicks)[1] at least into the 2010s. Quite a group, this one.
- Websites: Wikipedia
Happy listening!
- Though a non-Fotheringay/Fairport Convention-related tidbit, a fun find for me in writing this up is Donaldson’s work on Mae McKenna’s Everything That Touches Me (1976). I know this album as McKenna is the mother of Jamie Woon, whose debut LP we’ll see in a future spotlight because I had added it to The List. ↩︎
#1970s #BritishFolk #FairportConvention #folkRock #Fotheringay #GerryConway #JerryDonahue #music #musicDiscovery #PatDonaldson #SandyDenny #selftitled #TrevorLucas
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Self-Titled Summer | Fotheringay (1970, UK)
Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 280 on The List, submitted by baz. Here’s a quick rundown:
- Point of origin(s): Fotheringay was a British folk rock quintet formed by Sandy Denny after she left Fairport Convention (following the release of their 1969 Liege & Leaf, which we looked at nearly a year ago in a SpaceAce Sunday), named after Denny’s song of the same name from the Fairport Convention album What We Did on Our Holidays. The other members were Denny’s partner and Australian guitarist Trevor Lucas plus drummer Gerry Conway (both formerly of folk psych prog rock band Eclection), and American guitarist Jerry Donahue and Scottish bassist Pat Donaldson (both formerly of prog psych group Poet and The One Man Band). This was their debut album.
- Tasting notes: Folk rock with some jazzy bits, Sandy Denny’s remarkable voice, wistful longing
- Standout track: Their cover of Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Way I Feel” – I want that song to last forever. The opener “Nothing More”, the first piano track Denny would write, is also fantastic (as it is on their live album, Essen 1970, released in 2011).
- Where are they now?/RIP: This is the only album released while the original lineup was together. They disbanded in January 1971 during recording sessions for a second album. While some of this material would later be released in 2008 under the title 2, some was used for Denny’s debut solo album (the 1971 The North Star Grassman and the Ravens) and on a Fairport Convention album (the 1972 Rosie), as Conway, Donahue, and Lucas had all joined that band after Fotheringay broke up (Donahue and Lucas from 1972-5, Conway just briefly at the time as a session musician, but then again later from 1998-2022). Denny would go on to have a successful but short solo career (with her former bandmates appearing on some of her albums), and would also briefly rejoin Fairport Convention in 1974-5. She tragically died in 1978 at the age of 31. Lucas then returned to Australia and mainly worked as a producer and film score composer until his death in 1989. In addition to his long stint in Fairport Convention, Conway was also in Pentangle from 1987 until his death just last year (he was married to Pentangle’s singer, Jacqui McShee). Donahue has a rather lengthy CV, working as both a musician (including guitar trio The Hellecasters plus being in The Yardbirds around 2004-5) and producer, at least up until a stroke in 2016 that affected his ability to play guitar. Donaldson was also in a few other bands and worked as a session musician (including for John Cale and Stevie Nicks)[1] at least into the 2010s. Quite a group, this one.
- Websites: Wikipedia
Happy listening!
- Though a non-Fotheringay/Fairport Convention-related tidbit, a fun find for me in writing this up is Donaldson’s work on Mae McKenna’s Everything That Touches Me (1976). I know this album as McKenna is the mother of Jamie Woon, whose debut LP we’ll see in a future spotlight because I had added it to The List. ↩︎
#1970s #BritishFolk #FairportConvention #folkRock #Fotheringay #GerryConway #JerryDonahue #music #musicDiscovery #PatDonaldson #SandyDenny #selftitled #TrevorLucas
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Self-Titled Summer | Fotheringay (1970, UK)
Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 280 on The List, submitted by baz. Here’s a quick rundown:
- Point of origin(s): Fotheringay was a British folk rock quintet formed by Sandy Denny after she left Fairport Convention (following the release of their 1969 Liege & Leaf, which we looked at nearly a year ago in a SpaceAce Sunday), named after Denny’s song of the same name from the Fairport Convention album What We Did on Our Holidays. The other members were Denny’s partner and Australian guitarist Trevor Lucas plus drummer Gerry Conway (both formerly of folk psych prog rock band Eclection), and American guitarist Jerry Donahue and Scottish bassist Pat Donaldson (both formerly of prog psych group Poet and The One Man Band). This was their debut album.
- Tasting notes: Folk rock with some jazzy bits, Sandy Denny’s remarkable voice, wistful longing
- Standout track: Their cover of Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Way I Feel” – I want that song to last forever. The opener “Nothing More”, the first piano track Denny would write, is also fantastic (as it is on their live album, Essen 1970, released in 2011).
- Where are they now?/RIP: This is the only album released while the original lineup was together. They disbanded in January 1971 during recording sessions for a second album. While some of this material would later be released in 2008 under the title 2, some was used for Denny’s debut solo album (the 1971 The North Star Grassman and the Ravens) and on a Fairport Convention album (the 1972 Rosie), as Conway, Donahue, and Lucas had all joined that band after Fotheringay broke up (Donahue and Lucas from 1972-5, Conway just briefly at the time as a session musician, but then again later from 1998-2022). Denny would go on to have a successful but short solo career (with her former bandmates appearing on some of her albums), and would also briefly rejoin Fairport Convention in 1974-5. She tragically died in 1978 at the age of 31. Lucas then returned to Australia and mainly worked as a producer and film score composer until his death in 1989. In addition to his long stint in Fairport Convention, Conway was also in Pentangle from 1987 until his death just last year (he was married to Pentangle’s singer, Jacqui McShee). Donahue has a rather lengthy CV, working as both a musician (including guitar trio The Hellecasters plus being in The Yardbirds around 2004-5) and producer, at least up until a stroke in 2016 that affected his ability to play guitar. Donaldson was also in a few other bands and worked as a session musician (including for John Cale and Stevie Nicks)[1] at least into the 2010s. Quite a group, this one.
- Websites: Wikipedia
Happy listening!
- Though a non-Fotheringay/Fairport Convention-related tidbit, a fun find for me in writing this up is Donaldson’s work on Mae McKenna’s Everything That Touches Me (1976). I know this album as McKenna is the mother of Jamie Woon, whose debut LP we’ll see in a future spotlight because I had added it to The List. ↩︎
#1970s #BritishFolk #FairportConvention #folkRock #Fotheringay #GerryConway #JerryDonahue #music #musicDiscovery #PatDonaldson #SandyDenny #selftitled #TrevorLucas
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Listening to one my all-time favourite tracks
Fairport Convention, Who knows where the times goes?
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Listening to one my all-time favourite tracks
Fairport Convention, Who knows where the times goes?
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Listening to one my all-time favourite tracks
Fairport Convention, Who knows where the times goes?
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Listening to one my all-time favourite tracks
Fairport Convention, Who knows where the times goes?
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Listening to one my all-time favourite tracks
Fairport Convention, Who knows where the times goes?
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Fairport Convention -- Liege And Lief
https://youtu.be/MPuAOF3TiLk?si=96FZKOl5w5FX6zbShttps://urusai.social/@gnitro has just mentioned listening to this album but finding it was not his cup of tea.
I rediscovered this album about a year ago. Like @gnitro, I'm a Kpop fan, so one might expect my reation to be similar to his, since the sound of British folk rock of the late sixties is far indeed from the polished studio production of today's Seoul .
Yet I do respond to that "Come All Ye". I don't think it's just nostalgia on my part; there's something about the rediscovery of traditional English music and its re-expression in a more modern idiom that stirs me, albeit in a fashion without flags, Faragism, or any other kind of fascistic nonsense.
#FairportConvention #LiegeAndLief #BritishFolkRock #EnglishMusic
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Fairport Convention -- Liege And Lief
https://youtu.be/MPuAOF3TiLk?si=96FZKOl5w5FX6zbShttps://urusai.social/@gnitro has just mentioned listening to this album but finding it was not his cup of tea.
I rediscovered this album about a year ago. Like @gnitro, I'm a Kpop fan, so one might expect my reation to be similar to his, since the sound of British folk rock of the late sixties is far indeed from the polished studio production of today's Seoul .
Yet I do respond to that "Come All Ye". I don't think it's just nostalgia on my part; there's something about the rediscovery of traditional English music and its re-expression in a more modern idiom that stirs me, albeit in a fashion without flags, Faragism, or any other kind of fascistic nonsense.
#FairportConvention #LiegeAndLief #BritishFolkRock #EnglishMusic
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Fairport Convention -- Liege And Lief
https://youtu.be/MPuAOF3TiLk?si=96FZKOl5w5FX6zbShttps://urusai.social/@gnitro has just mentioned listening to this album but finding it was not his cup of tea.
I rediscovered this album about a year ago. Like @gnitro, I'm a Kpop fan, so one might expect my reation to be similar to his, since the sound of British folk rock of the late sixties is far indeed from the polished studio production of today's Seoul .
Yet I do respond to that "Come All Ye". I don't think it's just nostalgia on my part; there's something about the rediscovery of traditional English music and its re-expression in a more modern idiom that stirs me, albeit in a fashion without flags, Faragism, or any other kind of fascistic nonsense.
#FairportConvention #LiegeAndLief #BritishFolkRock #EnglishMusic
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Fairport Convention -- Liege And Lief
https://youtu.be/MPuAOF3TiLk?si=96FZKOl5w5FX6zbShttps://urusai.social/@gnitro has just mentioned listening to this album but finding it was not his cup of tea.
I rediscovered this album about a year ago. Like @gnitro, I'm a Kpop fan, so one might expect my reation to be similar to his, since the sound of British folk rock of the late sixties is far indeed from the polished studio production of today's Seoul .
Yet I do respond to that "Come All Ye". I don't think it's just nostalgia on my part; there's something about the rediscovery of traditional English music and its re-expression in a more modern idiom that stirs me, albeit in a fashion without flags, Faragism, or any other kind of fascistic nonsense.
#FairportConvention #LiegeAndLief #BritishFolkRock #EnglishMusic
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Tired Afternoon
I stayed up too late last night and now I am tired. That’s how it works for all of us, but it seems to be a bigger issue for folks who are old like me. I am going to have a birthday in a couple of weeks and I’m going to be 54. Wait… really? How is that possible? I know in the grand scheme of things that 54 isn’t that bad, I mean it’s not 80 or anything, but damn… I was 27 a few days ago. Wasn’t I?
What was I writing about?
Oh yeah, I am tired. It seems somehow worse than that though as I didn’t have time to follow any news yesterday and today I got caught up on the collapse of civilization. So RFK wants to create a autism database or some shit? Hmmm… didn’t the nazis do that with mental illnesses? Yeah, something like that. No surprise that we’re resurrecting that particular evil, but there you go. That on top of prison time without due process and willfully collapsing the economy in order to scam a couple of bucks off the rubes. Yeah. Are we great again? Maybe I’ll open up a new Signal chat and ask about it.
Ugh. Here’s a cat:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54470856163/in/datetaken/
If the cat didn’t temporarily straighten out your soul, maybe a song will help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygi8v7UcNMs
#americanFascism #Cat #fairportConvention #Fascism #fascistStatesOfAmerica #health #Hipstamatic #iphoneography #Kitty #Music #photography #Politics #robin #trumpIsAFascist #trumpIsANazi #trumpIsEvil #unitedStatesOfFascism