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Three Drunken Maidens: Maddy Prior (Keep The Coffee Coming)

noreply@blogger.com (Kat) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:54:00 GMT

This is a traditional Irish folk song. I first heard it sung by Fairport Convention. This version is from Maddy's album Summer Solstice. Tim Hart is playing guitar. MP3 File

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The 33 1/3 Odyssey: The Sound of Falling Apart (The KEXP Blog)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:45:25 GMT

... in marriage and in professional collaboration. Richard had been at the center of Scottish legends Fairport Convention, raising that band’s best work above parochial playing-out, with Linda coming on board to accompany classic British folk-singer Sandy Denny near the end. As ( High Hat website founder and blogger) Hayden Childs eloquently makes clear, the couple hooked up and turned...

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Robert Plant — The Battle Of Evermore (Musical Stew Daily)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:43:42 GMT

Jambands.com reports: Robert Plant continued to explore his recent fascination with roots-music this weekend at Fairport Convention’s annual Cropredy Convention. The folk festival has been held each year in August since the early 1970s in the village of Cropredy in Oxfordshire, England. While onsite, Plant sat in with Kristina Donahue during her set on a version [...]

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Fricke’s Picks: The Folk-Rock Theatre of Johnny Flynn (Rock and Roll Daily)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:35:49 GMT

... real-ale purism and gently electric modernism of the early-Seventies Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention. Flynn’s voice is a similar mix of then-in-now, with flashes of a less-weathered Bert Jansch and a cocky, Celtic Beck. That would all be enchanting mimicry if Flynn was a lesser songwriter. But Flynn — who toured as a young Shakespearean actor before he started singing...

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The Strangelings at Folk Fest (TommyWonk)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:03:00 GMT

The Strangelings took the Lobby Stage this afternoon to a packed and wildly appreciative crowd. For those of us who were a little too young to catch the great folk rock bands like Fairport Convention and It's a Beautiful Day in their heyday, the Strangelings provide the next best thing. They come complete with three great female vocalists, an electric sitar and a skinny violin player...

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OVER HERE - FRANKLY I WOULD RATHER WATCH FAIRPORT CONVENTION (Tangled Blog)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:27:02 GMT

Buyer's remose will engulf many Americans in the next few weeks as the Democrats and Republicans hold their conventions. The conventions signal the end of the primary season and the start of the general election. Each party will nominate its candidate in a a political orgy of hyperbole, promises and ballons. The networks will cover them as if the results are not predetermined (there hasn't...

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Dan Crisp - NEW artist from the West Country - upcoming album, tour dates (Band Weblogs)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:15:12 GMT

... ‘Far From Here’ , which is due for release on August 20th, 2008 and features collaborations with Fairport Convention and The John Martyn Band , Dan is staying true to his roots by launching a tour of the South West on the same date. It kicks off in Exeter, before visiting Torquay, Wellington, St Ives, Sidmouth, Herefordshire and Exmouth. Dan will also play a much awaited debut appearance...

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Unfortunate Animal Encounters of the Musical Stars (WFMU's Beware of the Blog)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

... into his Dirty Linen ! While on vacation near Puerto Vallarta earlier this year, the legendary Fairport Convention founder was surprised by an uninvited member of the Centruroides Convention, who took fast action on the guitarist's picking hand! The resulting sting produced "throbbing pain in the bones of the right arm. Numbness and prickling in the right arm. Small spots of...

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Pop CD review: Fairport Convention reissues (The Telegraph)

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:21:58 GMT

Colin Irwin reviews the pop CDs of the week - reissues of Fairport Convention's What We Did on Our Holidays, Unhalfbricking and Liege & Lief.

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Album: Jim Moray, Low Culture (Niag/Cadiz) (The Independent)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:00:01 GMT

Though folk has theoretically returned to the mainstream in recent years as alt.folk, the term mostly signalled a revival of drippy singer-songwriters. Only a few, such as Alasdair Roberts, try to take on the stark verities of traditional British folk songs. And Moray differs even from them by stapling such songs to modern pop forms. He's continuing Fairport Convention's folk-rock experiment,...

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Rap, grime and the hurdy-gurdy (The Guardian)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:04:17 GMT

... called his use of computer technology "the most significant development in English folk since Fairport Convention's Liege and Lief"."I'm proud of it, but it sounds a bit adolescent now," Moray says of the album. "Since then we've had Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, and Imagined Village, and five or six records that have been described as 'the biggest thing since Liege and Lief'....

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Natural mystic (The Independent)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:38:01 GMT

... John Martyn, Free, Brian Eno, Grace Jones, Roxy Music, Tom Waits, King Crimson, Free, Sparks, Fairport Convention and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. And in 1972 he met Bob Marley, deliberately pushing him in a more rock direction “because I wanted to lure the rock market into Jamaican music, reggae music, which was considered novelty music at the time.” Along the way, Island – together...

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Fairport Convention: Unhalfbricking (Review) (PopMatters Music)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:00:01 GMT

Though the Convention still releases new music to this day, the essential spirit of their third album has yet to be repeated.

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Seven (more) Songs meme (Where Worlds Collide)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:51:25 GMT

Psycho Chicken has let loose the Seven Songs meme again. Mostly Autumn - Tearing at the Faerytale Mostly Autumn - Unoriginal Sin Blue Öyster Cult - Astronomy Fairport Convention - Tam Lin Breathing Space - The Gap Is Too Wide Opeth - Burden Uriah Heep - What Kind of God Four out of the seven are songs I’ve seen live recently, in some [...]

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Ian Matthews: If You Saw Thro' My Eyes (Review) (PopMatters Music)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:56:01 GMT

After leaving Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort, Ian struck gold with his solo folk-rock debut (not literally).

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Roadhouse date for Fleet Foxes (Manchester Online)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:10:40 GMT

... & Nash performing 17th century Baroque hymns, John Lennon trying his hand at Appalachian folk or Fairport Convention discovering Led Zeppelin.No, to fully appreciate Seattle's Fleet Foxes you need a beard, or - if you're a girl - a gig buddy with a beard. They were the most talked-about band at Texas' famous SXSW festival.Their debut album hits the shops on Monday, and the rule is:...

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Banburyshire Brolly music podstation - Show 168 (Banburyshire Brolly)

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:11:04 GMT

Banburyshire Brolly music podstation - Show 168 A combined Brolly and Radio Horton show, presented by Jules Procter. Featuring : The Deserter by Fairport Convention My Old Friend Jack by The Puddle Jumpers Chimes of Freedom by The Kenedys Here Comes The Night by Steve Tilston Interview with Jack Edwards and Adrian Hearn Volunteers are a key part to any community, and the Friends of the Horton...

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Prostration and Orbs - Moscow, Russia (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:46:08 GMT

... and hair? By the time everyone was out and doing their business they were looking lmore ike the Fairport Convention, and I was pleased to see two beardy robed chaps at the back have a little giggle. So, we like orthodox church, although perhpas as a spectator. And one of the candle-bearers definitely looked at my legs. Someone's going to hell... Mother, why was I brought up a Methodist...

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MARTHA WAINWRIGHT (A Plague of Angels)

Wed, 28 May 2008 04:09:00 GMT

Shiver-me-timbers-and-blow-the-man-down but I can be one dumb motherf*ck sometimes. Here I'd been resisting listening to MARTHA WAINWRIGHT 's sophomore CD, I KNOW YOU'RE MARRIED BUT I'VE GOT FEELINGS TOO , because I'd never been all that impressed with her much-ballyhooed work with FAIRPORT CONVENTION and husband RICHARD THOMPSON. Uh... hmmm.... So, you see, what I'd been doing was...

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Who Knows Where The Time Goes (gmtPlus9 (-15))

Tue, 27 May 2008 03:29:00 GMT

Fairport Convention... Who Knows Where The Time Goes (.wma audio 05:10). From the album Unhalfbricking (1969, Island ILPS 9102).

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