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Fairport Convention's ninth album is their most uneven. The group shows extraordinary virtuosity and musical instincts on folk-based tracks such as "The Hexamshire Lass" and "The Brilliancy Medley & Cherokee Shuffle" (which features some of the best mandolin playing you're ever likely to hear from an English band), but on numbers like "Polly on the Shore" and "To Althea From Prison," where the band supplies the music to traditional lyrics, they simply fall flat -- it isn't even that the playing is bad, so much as that the failed numbers are uniformly lugubrious in the way they're treated. Part of the problem lies with the fact that while Lucas and Donahue were good guitarists, they weren't terribly interesting -- where Richard Thompson always came up with something surprising and unexpected on Fairport's songs, Lucas and Donahue stick with fairly routine pop music sounds, more in keeping with the Eagles than the group that recorded Liege and Lief, Full House, and House Full. Lucas' "Bring 'Em Down" is a decent song, with some strong singing and playing by the composer and a lovely and powerful fiddle solo by Swarbrick, but it overstays its welcome and loses its cohesion -- "Sloth" it is not. Too much of the album is taken up by easily forgotten contemporary-style rockers like "Big William" and throwaways such as the countrified "Pleasure and Pain"; not even the upbeat, riff heavy "Possibly Parsons Green" makes up for this problem. And the rather plain cover art didn't help matters any when it came to selling this record.
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
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Traditional, Composer - Dave Mattacks, Drums, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - John Wood, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jerry Donahue, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Fairport Convention, Producer, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist - Trevor Lucas, Producer, Actor, Acoustic Guitar, Actor/Singer, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Pegg, Actor, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Actor/Singer, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Swarbrick, Mandolin, Viola, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Davendorf, Author - John M. Wood, Producer
℗ 1973 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Traditional, Author - Dave Mattacks, Drums, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - John Wood, Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jerry Donahue, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Fairport Convention, Producer, MainArtist - Trevor Lucas, Producer, Arranger, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Work Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Pegg, Composer, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Swarbrick, Mandolin, Viola, Violin, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer - John M. Wood, Producer - Terry Donahue, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1973 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Traditional, Composer - Dave Mattacks, Drums, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - John Wood, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jerry Donahue, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Fairport Convention, Producer, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist - Trevor Lucas, Producer, Actor, Acoustic Guitar, Actor/Singer, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Pegg, Actor, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Actor/Singer, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Swarbrick, Mandolin, Viola, Violin, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer - John M. Wood, Producer - Terry Donahue, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1973 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Dave Mattacks, Drums, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - John Wood, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jerry Donahue, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Fairport Convention, Producer, MainArtist - Trevor Lucas, Producer, Actor, Acoustic Guitar, Actor/Singer, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Pegg, Actor, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Actor/Singer, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Swarbrick, Composer, Mandolin, Viola, Violin, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer - Richard Lovelace, Author - John M. Wood, Producer - Terry Donahue, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1973 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Dave Mattacks, Drums, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - John Wood, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jerry Donahue, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Fairport Convention, Producer, MainArtist - Trevor Lucas, Producer, Actor, Acoustic Guitar, Actor/Singer, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Pegg, Actor, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Actor/Singer, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Swarbrick, Mandolin, Viola, Violin, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer - John M. Wood, Producer - Terry Donahue, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1973 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Dave Mattacks, Drums, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - John Wood, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jerry Donahue, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Fairport Convention, Producer, MainArtist - Trevor Lucas, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Dave Pegg, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Swarbrick, Mandolin, Viola, Violin, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer - John M. Wood, Producer - Terry Donahue, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1973 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Dave Mattacks, Drums, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - John Wood, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jerry Donahue, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Fairport Convention, Producer, MainArtist - Trevor Lucas, Author, Producer, Actor, Acoustic Guitar, Actor/Singer, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Pegg, Actor, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Actor/Singer, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Swarbrick, Mandolin, Viola, Violin, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John M. Wood, Producer - Terry Donahue, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1973 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Dave Mattacks, Drums, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - John Wood, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jerry Donahue, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Fairport Convention, Producer, MainArtist - Trevor Lucas, Producer, Actor, Acoustic Guitar, Actor/Singer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Dave Pegg, Actor, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Actor/Singer, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Swarbrick, Mandolin, Viola, Violin, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John M. Wood, Producer - Terry Donahue, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1973 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Dave Mattacks, Drums, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - John Wood, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jerry Donahue, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Fairport Convention, Producer, MainArtist - Trevor Lucas, Producer, Actor, Acoustic Guitar, Actor/Singer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Dave Pegg, Actor, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Actor/Singer, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Swarbrick, Mandolin, Viola, Violin, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer - Peter William Roche, Author - John M. Wood, Producer - Terry Donahue, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1973 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Traditional, Author - Harry Robinson, Arranger, Work Arranger - Fairport Convention, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist - Trevor Lucas, Producer - John Robert Wood, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1974 Universal-Island Records Ltd.
Bob Dylan, ComposerLyricist - Dave Mattacks, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - John Wood, Producer - Jerry Donahue, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Fairport Convention, MainArtist - Trevor Lucas, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Pegg, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Swarbrick, Violin, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Fairport Convention, MainArtist - Trevor Lucas, ComposerLyricist - Dave Swarbrick, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 Universal Island Records Ltd. A Universal Music Company.
Carl Montgomery, ComposerLyricist - Fairport Convention, MainArtist - Earl Green, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 Universal Island Records Ltd. A Universal Music Company.
Albumbeschreibung
Fairport Convention's ninth album is their most uneven. The group shows extraordinary virtuosity and musical instincts on folk-based tracks such as "The Hexamshire Lass" and "The Brilliancy Medley & Cherokee Shuffle" (which features some of the best mandolin playing you're ever likely to hear from an English band), but on numbers like "Polly on the Shore" and "To Althea From Prison," where the band supplies the music to traditional lyrics, they simply fall flat -- it isn't even that the playing is bad, so much as that the failed numbers are uniformly lugubrious in the way they're treated. Part of the problem lies with the fact that while Lucas and Donahue were good guitarists, they weren't terribly interesting -- where Richard Thompson always came up with something surprising and unexpected on Fairport's songs, Lucas and Donahue stick with fairly routine pop music sounds, more in keeping with the Eagles than the group that recorded Liege and Lief, Full House, and House Full. Lucas' "Bring 'Em Down" is a decent song, with some strong singing and playing by the composer and a lovely and powerful fiddle solo by Swarbrick, but it overstays its welcome and loses its cohesion -- "Sloth" it is not. Too much of the album is taken up by easily forgotten contemporary-style rockers like "Big William" and throwaways such as the countrified "Pleasure and Pain"; not even the upbeat, riff heavy "Possibly Parsons Green" makes up for this problem. And the rather plain cover art didn't help matters any when it came to selling this record.
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:53:42
- Main artists: Fairport Convention
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)
- Genre: Blues/country/folk Folk
© 2005 Universal-Island Records Ltd. This Compilation ℗ 2005 Universal-Island Records Ltd.
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