Fairport Convention "Liege And Lief" Island ILPS 9115 A5/B5 g/f Pink Rim 1970
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Fairport Convention ? "Liege & Lief" Island Records ?ILPS 9115 Vinyl, LP, with pink rim labels with a black Witchseason logo, repressed in 1970.
The vinyl appears to have been lightly played and is in great condition. It played through beautifully on my elderly stereo - no hop, stick or jump. It is housed in a gate-fold sleeve, which apart from some slight ring-wear, is in good condition, with no rips or writing. The spine is intact and legible. Matrix / Runout Side 1 : ILPS 9115 A5 Matrix / Runout Side 2 : ILPS 9115 B5
"Liege & Lief" is the fourth album by the English folk rock band Fairport Convention. It is the third album the group released in the UK during 1969, all of which prominently feature Sandy Denny as lead female vocalist (Denny did not appear on the group's 1968 debut album), as well as the first to feature future long-serving personnel Dave Swarbrick and Dave Mattacks on violin/mandolin and drums, respectively, as full band members (Swarbrick had previously guested on "Unhalfbricking"). It is also the first Fairport album on which all songs have either been adapted (freely) from traditional British and Celtic folk material (for example "Matty Groves", "Tam Lin"), or else are original compositions (such as "Come All Ye", "Crazy Man Michael") written and performed in a similar style. Although Denny (and also founding member, the bass player Ashley Hutchings) quit the band even before the album's release, Fairport Convention has continued to the present day to make music strongly based within the British folk rock idiom, and are still the band most prominently associated with it.
The album was moderately successful, peaking at number 17 on the UK Albums Chart during a 15-week run. It is often credited, though the claim is sometimes disputed, as the first major "British folk rock" album (this term is not to be confused with American-style folk rock, which had first achieved mainstream popularity on both sides of the Atlantic with The Byrds' early work several years prior). The popularity of "Liege & Lief" did a great deal to establish the new style commercially and artistically as a distinct genre. In an audience vote at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2006, the album was voted "Most Influential Folk Album of All Time". It was voted number 254 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).
In a retrospective review, AllMusic's Mark Deming said of the album that "while [it] was the most purely folk-oriented Fairport Convention album to date, it also rocked hard in a thoroughly original and uncompromising way". In June 2007, Mojo magazine listed "Liege & Lief" at number 58 in its list of "100 Records that changed the world". In his 2010 book on the UK folk-rock music scene "Electric Eden", author Rob Young devoted 13 pages to the "Liege and Lief" period and its resulting album, stating that the album "retains a coherence and integrity shared by very few British folk-rock records" and that in its music, "... Fate is exacted; English balladry displays its full menace and mystery; and there's a tentative reflection upon pain and loss, tainted by hard experience".
The self-isolating measures in the UK mean that I am unable to access my local post office. I am therefore using a courier service for the foreseeable future. This will have no cost implications for UK buyers, but anyone ordering from outside the UK should contact me for an accurate quote for postage costs.
As a rough guide, prices for the USA are likely to be around £20, Italy and Spain, £10, France £9 and Germany £8. I shall, of course provide an accurate quote for each request.
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