TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.4750
Fairport Convention Album Rankings
1
For their fourth album, Fairport Convention released what is regarded by many as not only the best record in their history but also one of the seminal English folk-rock albums of all time.
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2
Sandy Denny's haunting, ethereal vocals gave Fairport a big boost on her debut with the group.
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3
First of all, lineup changes. Founder member Ashley Hutchings left for Albion Band and 'Morris On' fame. Sandy Denny leaves for Fotheringay and an acclaimed solo career.
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Unhalfbrickingwas, if only in retrospect, a transitional album for the young Fairport Convention, in which the group shed its closest ties to its American folk-rock influences and started to edge towa
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5
By far the most rock-oriented of Fairport Convention's early albums, this debut was recorded beforeSandy Dennyjoined the band (Judy Dyblehandles the female vocals).
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6
Fairport Convention have had their fair share of anthologies, but the double-disc setMeet on the Ledge: The Classic Years (1967-75)is arguably the best yet, rivaling the classicFairport Chronicles, wh
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Recorded during Fairport Convention's September 1970 shows in Los Angeles (their second visit to the city in six months),House Fullcaptures the four-pieceFull Houselineup at its zenith -- a point prov
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8
While they are generally considered a British folk-rock group, the Fairport Convention's influence on the post-'60s Celtic rock movement is noteworthy as well.
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9
Fairport Convention has long been British folk-rock with the emphasis on British and folk, but listeners most familiar with their revved-up interpretation of traditional English ballads (and like-mind
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10
The Wood & The Wire. Yes, I did say 51st! One of the "grandaddy's" of the folk music scene, Fairport Convention, in one guise or another, has been making music since the early 60's.
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11
Simon Nicol steps up to assume lead guitar duties following the departure of the mighty Richard Thompson.
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12
John 'Babbacombe' Lee survived three attempted hangings after serving in the navy then being convicted of the murder of his employer Emma Keyse in Babbacombe Bay near Torquay.
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Close to the Wind is a compilation drawn from Fairport Convention's 16th and 17th albums, Red & Gold (December 1988) and The Five Seasons (December 1990), boasting eight of the 11 songs from the form
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21
Wishfulness Waltz is a reissue of the 1997 Fairport Convention album Who Knows Where the Time Goes?, with four bonus tracks recorded at that year's Cropredy Festival.
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27
Though their most famous albums were over a decade past by the late '80s, Fairport Convention was still releasing albums that were good enough to convert new listeners.
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29
Fairport Convention's 17th studio album in 22 years finds them a competent, craftsman-like unit led by Simon Nicol, who has developed into a strong singer.
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39
Recorded during Fairport Convention's 1979 farewell tour (a hiatus that lasted for only six years) and originally released on vinyl as Farewell Farewell, Encore Encore: Farewell Tour isn't the best l
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41
It is fairly safe to say that the current incarnation of Fairport Convention is no longer breaking ground in the genre the band helped create in the late 1960s.
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42
The Woodworm Years was originally released on Dave Pegg's own Woodworm Records label in 1991; the label went under shortly thereafter, but this compilation was reissued twice.
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45
Though their annual reunion concerts meant that they never really went away, Fairport Convention (now down to a trio of guitarist/vocalist Simon Nicol, bassist Dave Pegg, and returning drummer Dave M
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