VA - You Can All Join In [1969] + Nice Enough To Eat [1969] (2 x CDs)
You Can All Join In is a budget-priced sampler album from Island Records released in 1969. Priced at 14 shillings and 6 pence (£0.72), it reached no. 18 on the UK Albums Chart. The album is described at Allmusic.com as - one of those seamless compilations that simply cannot be improved upon. A dozen tracks highlight the best - and that is the best - of Island's recent and forthcoming output.
Nice Enough to Eat is a budget priced sampler album released by Island Records in 1969. Continuing the policy set by its predecessor You Can All Join In, the album presented tracks from the latest albums by established artists including Free, Traffic, and Jethro Tull, and introduced tasters from newer signings to the label, notably Nick Drake and King Crimson. The inclusion of the Nick Drake track, "Time Has Told Me", has been credited with providing the first opportunity for many record buyers to hear Drake's music. It was priced as low as 14 shillings and 6 pence (£0.72), less than half of the standard album price at the time. The album is described at Allmusic.com as a "somewhat incoherent sampler of folk-rock, prog rock, and prog-tinged hard rock", but with a "stellar artist lineup". (Wikipedia)
You Can All Join In - Traffic . . . .go on if you play one song today make it this (twice)
and it introduced me to this man . . . .
Dusty - John Martyn
who was in turn inspired by this man . . . . .
Nick Drake - Time Has Told Mer
Quintessence - Gunga Mai
just as I saw them at The Who at The Oval concert . . . . . . far out man!
First time I ever bought this . . . . . (several times since of course)
Love this version a young young YOUNG Fairport Convention ‘Time Will Show The Wiser’ 1968
1968, pretty much the first incarnation of one of my favourite 'folk-rock' (sic) bands of all time (at this stage of their career they were known as the British Jefferson Airplane), featuring Judy Dyble (replaced the next year by Sandy Denny) and Iain Matthews (who later scored a #1 hit with Joni Mitchell's 'Woodstock' as Matthews Southern Comfort) on vocals, and the world famous singer/songwriter/guitarist Richard Thompson, as well as Tyger Hutchings, Simon Nicol and Martin Lamble, who sadly died on 12th May 1969, aged only 19, after Fairport's van crashed on the M1 motorway. Richard Thompson's girlfriend Jeannie Franklyn the legendary tailor and fashionista of the sixties) was killed too, the rest of the band escaped with minor injuries . . . . . . .
Wow this is incredibly flattering name checked an all and Kostas pulls out all the stops here with a profile of Fairport Convention dedicated to yours truly this is indispensable if you don’t have anything or even that much.
I think I first bought the single Si Tu Dois De Partir by them as a single and we loved it, playing it at house parties and the local youth club until mine wore thin! We scarcely knew it was a Bob Dylan number sold or pushed through Tin Pan Alley of the day. We simply didn’t care (then!)
I think I followed them avidly ever since and certainly Unhalfbricking and What We did On Our Holidays fell into the vaults collection upon their first release. I caught up with Richard solo work around the time of Across a Crowded Room and Daring Adventures his solo outing thanks to fine artist Graham Dean who sang his praises and I have bought everything ever since. Cropredy is just a few miles away from where I live and we have been across a few times to the little (sic) festival there . . . . . . . Kostas tells us:
Widely accepted as being the first great English electric folk group, Fairport Convention is that and far more. It would be safer to say they are simply one of the greatest English groups of all. They began their career with a repertoire of traditional material, some originals and a veritable jukebox of American new folk, they soon developed their own niche as interpreters of murder ballads, sly tales of yore and deeply thought out, planned and executed concept pieces. . . . . . read on
Seven (count ‘em!) official first albums and the compilation double album Meet On The Ledge! THE CLASSIC YEARS 1967 - 1975 released in 1999
Superb effort from Kostas here and once again I have no idea how he masters such output so fast and so thoroughly frequently daily! This is most welcome and doubtless sorts my playlist for the next few months!
“When you’re like a broken bird tell heaven. Battered wings against the dark and day. When your worries won’t let you sleep tell heaven. When the tears won’t ever go away.”
Fairport Convention - The Cropredy Festival, UK 2007
Fairport Convention on August 10, 2007 performing the classic album Liege & Lief at the Cropredy Festival, an event created by the band that is held annually with great success.
Fortunately this excellent performance was recorded and two months later broadcast by the BBC Radio 2.
Sound Quality: 9.5+
Source: FM Broadcast
Track List:
01. Come All Ye
02. Reynardine
03. Band Intros
04. Matty Groves
05. Farewell, Farewell
06. The Deserter
07. Medley: The Lark In The Morning/Rakish Paddy/Foxhunter's Jigs/Toss The Feathers
Trader Horne: Morning Way... Plus 1970 + Judy Dyble: Talking With Strangers 2009 + Anthology Part 1 2015
The earliest of Fairport Convention with Judy and Richard and Ian Matthews (back centre) and Ashley Hutchings before the terrible car crash which killed drummer Martin Lamble (at Richard’s shoulder here) and Richard’s then girlfriend, seamstress stylist and fashionista Jeannie Franklyn
now this is really interesting from Kostas this morning. I knew of Judy Dyble of course but only through her work with Fairport Convention (she was an early vocalist with the band) and of course it takes someone living in Athens to sort out my ignorance! (Kostas is ALWAYS doing this; teaching us about music from all around the globe to be fair but I especially enjoy his works on the British music scene many of which I have said to him I have never heard of!) 😉 So here from her earliest incarnations with fellow folkie Jackie McAuley former keyboard player from Them, here as Trader Horne to her solo effort later on [read what Kostas says about the name Trader Horne and John Peel]
I don’t quite know how I stumbled across this but like ya do I had just let a search on YouTube run on in the back ground and when I came back after lunch this was playing. A Granada TV special introduced by legendary Mike Harding this line up of Fairport were as the text says, legends all but not really a formed band at this time (note guest appearance by Linda Thompson too) but none the worse for that and while they went on to be in various incarnations of this line up from then until now this is a the germ of an extraordinary band and no mistake!
As the poster notes:
The separate tracks from this programme are elsewhere on the channel in lesser quality. Now, here is the whole thing (minus ads) in its entirety as telecast on Granada TV in August 1981. Hosted by Mike Harding, this captures the "Full House" line-up of Fairport - Dave Swarbrick, Richard Thompson, Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg and Dave Mattacks with guest Linda Thompson - in the period when the band was in hiatus. They reformed with a somewhat different line-up in 1985 and continue to this day.
Material is a combination of songs they recorded in 1970, then-current tunes from Swarb's "Smiddyburn" album and rarities such as Bright Lights Tonight and the then-unreleased Wall Of Death.
0:28 Dirty Linen
3:03 Poor Will & The Jolly Hangman
9:47 Sir Charles Coote / Smiths
13:04 Wall Of Death
16:52 Sword Dance / Young Black Cow
22:11 I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
26:16 Sloth
The title track from their 1968 LP - it doesn’t seem to get much love compared to other tracks but it’s a great tune with cool guitar by Vince Melouney.
Just me and the mirror and my brain
as always from the magnificent Guess I’m Dumb . . . . .
and of course more relevant today is the glorious Fairport classic song . . . . Tam Lin
Track Name
Tam Lin
Album
Liege & Lief
Artist
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention - Tam Lin (1969)
"But tonight is Hallowe'en and the faery folk ride Those that would their true love win at Miles Cross they must buy "
Sandy Denny & The Strawbs - Stay Awhile With Me (1967)
I absolutely love this song. Sandy Denny recorded this tune with the Strawbs before joining Fairport Convention. There’s a version with strings but I think I like this one a bit more as Sandy’s vocals stand out more.
Means just one thing . . . . . . the annual FAIRPORT CONVENTION gathering in a village up the road from me here a couple of years back (2019) and broadcast on my local radio station Radio Oxford (BBC) this is therefore great quality and despite being over at Big O and picking your way gingerly amongst the torrent of verbal abuse and horrific neanderthal meatheads in the comments section they share this well and it is well worth the download if you like the roots of all music . . . . . . . . (discuss!)
Of course this is the beating heart of the band and features the nucleus currently:
Simon Nicol – guitar, vocals (1967–1971, 1976–1979, 1985–present)
Dave Pegg – bass guitar, mandolin, backing vocals (1969–1979, 1985–present)
Chris Leslie – fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki, vocals (1996–present)
Gerry Conway – drums, percussion (1998–present)
with guests of Dave Mattacks (drums) and Sally Barker, Anna Ryder on vocals, P.J.Wrightand somehow Joe Brown reeling out his 'hit' 'Picture of You' for reasons best known to someone else. Now I like Joe ( a lot actually and note his contributions to the George Harrison tribute onward he is still playing and touring and entertaining us but I don't quite get his appearance here) . . . . . . .still not to be too snitty. Let's face it it takes two singers to replace Sandy Denny and two violinists to replace Dave Swarbrick so in the absence of Richard Thompson, who often does pop up at these things, or his wonderful daughter Kami who appears at time on vocals, I guess they need as much help as they can get! And nothing wrong with that. It's great fun and fine quality of course. Put 'Shuffle and Go' on and turn it up! You'll be reeling around your living room in your pants in no time!
More blasts from the past . . . . Fairport at their very best . . . . . . with the mercurial Sandy Denny
in advance of Halloween . . . . . . . . . . .
Oh, tell to me, Tam Lin, she said, why came you here to dwell?
The Queen of Fairies caught me when from my horse I fell
And at the end of seven years she pays a tithe to hell
I so fair and full of flesh and feared it be myself . . . . . . .
Then up spoke the Faerie Queen, an angry queen was she
"Woe betide her ill-fought face, an ill death may she die"
Oh, had I known, Tam Lin," she said, "what this night I did see
I'd have looked him in the eyes and turned him to a tree"
The Faery ballad dates to at least as early as 1549
This just in and its astonishingly fine. This is my theme for the day, Sandy Denny and the boys especially Richard Thompson a peerless brilliant quality soundboard set from Floppy Boot Stomp!
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