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	Fairport Convention : interview
		When Fairport Convention tentatively formed in the house of guitarist and vocalist Simon Nicol in 1967, it may have seemed inconceivable to them that in 2005 the band would still be going strong after 38 years of success, tragedy and wonderful music.
		They are an institution, holding a special place in the annals of popular music with their innovative fusing of traditional folk music and instruments with a hard-edged rock streak.
		But Fairport are a working band, and, as Nicol emphasises more than once, not their own tribute band.
	www.musicomh.com /interviews/fairport-convention_0805.htm (0 words)

	FAIRPORT CONVENTION Lyrics
		Fairport Convention is often credited with being the first British folk-rock band.
		We present 59 different Fairport Convention lyrics and remixes.
		All Fairport Convention lyrics are copyrighted and eLyrics.net is featuring these free for educational purposes only.
	www.elyrics.net /song/f/fairport-convention-lyrics.html (159 words)

	Fairport Convention, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		When Fairport formed around 1967, their goal was not to revive British folk numbers, but to play harmony- and guitar-based folk-rock in a style strongly influenced by Californian groups of the day (especially the Byrds).
		Fairport Convention didn't reach their peak until Dyble was replaced after the first album in 1968 by Sandy Denny, who had previously recorded both as a solo act and with the Strawbs.
		Fairport was now not so much a continuous entity as a concept, carried on by musicians dedicated to the electrified British folk style that had been mapped out on Liege and Lief.
	www.emusic.com /artist/10555/10555374.html (1009 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Fairport Convention: Remastered: Music: Fairport Convention
		The Fairports knew her as she had been in the UK at the invitation of their producer, Joe Boyd, and she had played some British dates supporting the Incredible String Band.
		The early Fairport Convention were a folk-rock band in the American Byrds / Lovin' Spoonful sense of the term, rather than the sense of the electrified traditional music that they would later come to embody.
		Fairport Convention's excellent debut album is more American west coast influenced than anything the band later recorded, with influences such as The Lovin' Spoonful, Gene Clark, Leonard Cohen and Moby Grape being the most noticeable.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Fairport-Convention-Remastered/dp/B00007J35I (0 words)

	Fairport Convention Index Page
		This page will be maintained with a series of links to Fairport Convention related web sites.
		Apart from their official site, it will be frequently updated with links to the current projects of members, past and present.
		There are sections dedicated to several artists, including Fairport Convention, plus more general music subjects and our own virtual pub.
	www.fairportconvention.co.uk (260 words)

	Fairport Convention's official website
		Welcome to Fairport Convention's Official Website, mouse over links (above) to display additional sub-menus
		Fairport’s Cropredy Convention Thursday 9 - Saturday 11 August 2007 - More...
		We are pleased to announce that ALL tickets for Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2007 have now been sold.
	www.fairportconvention.com (0 words)

	Folk Music, Traditional Music, Celtic Music, and World Music - Folk Alley
		The sound you hear in the background behind Simon Nicol as he talks about the upcoming Cropredy Festival is Chris' head spinning around and exploding from excitement.
		Folk Alley lore has it that Chris was a card carrying member of the KISS Army and a serious metal fan until he heard Fairport Convention - the band's music literally changed his life.
		Also featured are the obscure sounds of Linda Perhacs and Fairport Convention's exclusive Folk Alley in-studio performance and interview.
	www.folkalley.com (0 words)

	Fairport Convention : Rolling Stone (Site not responding. Last check: )
		True, Simon Nichol still hasn't learned what a lead guitar is all about and true, the liner notes sound like a pukka sahib on acid, but the music shows that...
		A remarkable debut, Fairport Convention (1968) introduced a British folk-rock band whose instrumental prowess and eclectic repertoire qualified them as a nascent supergroup.
		Dizzying personnel shifts and haphazard commercial success, however, would dog the band throughout its long career, ultimately making Fairport more a style and a vision than a cohesive aggregation.
	www.rollingstone.com /artists/fairportconvention (132 words)

	Fairport Convention - Music Downloads - Online
		When Fairport formed around 1967, their goal was not to revive British folk numbers, but to play harmony- and guitar-based folk-rock in a style strongly influenced by Californian groups of the day (especially the Byrds).
		Fairport Convention didn't reach their peak until Dyble was replaced after the first album in 1968 by Sandy Denny, who had previously recorded both as a solo act and with the Strawbs.
		Fairport was now not so much a continuous entity as a concept, carried on by musicians dedicated to the electrified British folk style that had been mapped out on Liege and Lief.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/632/Fairport-Convention/1014264.html (910 words)

	Fairport Convention - Biography - AOL Music
		When Fairport formed around 1967, their goal was not to revive British folk numbers, but to play harmony- and guitar-based folk-rock in a style strongly influenced by Californian groups of the day (especially the Byrds).
		Fairport Convention didn't reach their peak until Dyble was replaced after the first album in 1968 by Sandy Denny, who had previously recorded both as a solo act and with the Strawbs.
		Fairport was now not so much a continuous entity as a concept, carried on by musicians dedicated to the electrified British folk style that had been mapped out on Liege and Lief.
	music.aol.com /artist/fairport-convention/4222/biography (914 words)

	Richard Thompson/Fairport Convention
		By 1971 concept albums were already out of style, but Fairport charged ahead anyway with an elaborate musical depiction of an 1885 murder and the perpetrator's bizarre survival of three attempts to hang him.
		In 1972 Fairport was pretty much on hold, and the record company released two greatest hits records, one of which (History Of Fairport Convention) included a new track featuring the new Donahue/Lucas lineup.
		The first half is Fairport Convention material going up to 1970, the second half is new Richard & Linda stuff, with three exhaustingly longwinded tracks from a 1975 concert that featured Pegg, Mattacks, and grating button accordion player John Kirkpatrick ("Calvary Cross").
	www.warr.org /thompson.html (6998 words)

	Fairport Convention
		Fairport Convention with Dave Swarbrick on Sunday 7th March 1999 at The Anvil, Basingstoke.
		This is a good album and would not disappoint lovers of the her early work with Fairport Convention, but did not get the commercial success it deserved.
		However Fairport Convention had other members who must be allowed to contribute and it seems that the remaining tracks which Swarb did not dominate were rather ordinary, or even poor.
	www.sjfarthing.free-online.co.uk /english/fairport.html (1811 words)

	George Graham Reviews Fairport Convention's "XXXV"
		Fairport were also not afraid to create their own material -- the group's best-known early figures, Richard Thompson and the late vocalist Sandy Denny both created music that remains in the repertoire of many a folksinger -- and they borrowed songs from such people as Bob Dylan and even 50s rocker Dion DiMucci.
		Fairport Convention are marking the 35th anniversary of the time when Simon Nicol and some friends got together at the house where he was living, which in the great English tradition, had a name, Fairport.
		Fairport Convention certainly deserves the celebration they are doing this year to mark the occasion with a world tour and the release of this CD.
	georgegraham.com /reviews/fairpt35.html (1147 words)

	MSJ -Fairport Convention-The Woodworm Years
		Fairport Convention is a cornerstone band in folk rock music, having been around since 1967 (except for a six-year respite in the early 1980s).
		Fairport is well known for it's takes on traditional jigs and reels, but this song is a bit unusual in that Dave Pegg takes the lead.
		Fairport is no stranger to stories of sailing (witness 1971's "Babbacombe Lee"), and this song shows that they can still do honor to the genre.
	www.musicstreetjournal.com /fairport.htm (758 words)

	fairport.html
		It could be said that Fairport Convention was the first true second-generation folk-rock band, in that its initial repertoire and model came not from folk songs, but from imported folk-rock records.
		This is what Fairport Convention, formed in North London by guitarists Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol and bassist Ashley Hutchings, did to master a repertoire that likely was unduplicated anywhere in the British Isles in 1967.
		Fairport's arrangements, in the manner of the best folk-rock covers, gave a bright rock lift to outstanding songs that made them both different than and equally worthy to the originals.
	www.richieunterberger.com /fairport.html (3175 words)

	Fairport Convention (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fairport found no shortage of work and was soon a regular act at underground venues such as The Electric Garden, Middle Earth and UFO.
		Although folk-rock was well-established in the USA by 1968, Fairport Convention was the first English band to concentrate on bringing rock instruments and rock arrangements to traditional songs.
		This was arguably Fairport Convention's finest album and it established British folk-rock as a distinct and influential genre.
	www.artistopia.com /fairport-convention (1463 words)

	Browse by Artist: FAIRPORT CONVENTION (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Fairport convention catalog is no longer available on Hannibal in the US, now superseded by this excellently prepared by this Island Remaster series.
		But this was the noblest Fairport of them all, in terms of sheer virtuosity and jaw-dropping chops -- and this album documents that to the hilt.
		Formed in London in 1967, Fairport Convention were widely tipped to be the English Jefferson Airplane.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/fairport.convention.html (1645 words)

	FAIRPORT CONVENTION (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After the release of Fairport Convention (1968),Dyble left to join the proto-King Crimson group, Giles, Gilesand Fripp, to bereplaced by Sandy Denny (vocals) from The Strawbs.
		Fairport continue to produce quality records,and live have actually been a more consistent outfit than in theearlier days of booze-fuelled gigs.
		All of Fairport's last half-dozen albums are superb, butthis has one of their best ever versions of a traditional song"Cloudy Beats", an intelligent folk song from ex-SlappHappy member Peter Blegvad ("Gold"), and two songs thattouch the heart("Ginnie" and "The WoundedWhale").
	www.telecaster.demon.co.uk /docs/fairport.htm (971 words)

	Adrian's Album Reviews : Fairport Convention
		Fairport Convention were accessible to gig-goers, whereas you'd have to wait a good while for a Byrds tour, for example.
		In terms of Fairport Convention themselves, fractures and splinters and downright disintegration of the 'Liege And Lief' line-up ensured they could never exactly repeat the feel and tone of this LP, yet the often overlooked instrumental medley here is clearly a signpost to Fairport's work on the immediate albums that followed.
		Fairport were not the band they once were to be fair, no original members were left by now.
	www.adriandenning.co.uk /fairport.html (6387 words)

	BBC - Oxford - Entertainment - Fairport Convention interview
		Fairport Convention, at Oxford Playhouse on Sunday 5 March.
		Fairport Convention and former group members received awards in three categories at the annual BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in February 2006.
		The legendary band's classic album Liege and Lief (first released as an LP in 1969 and recently reissued as a CD) was voted 'Most Influential Folk Album of All Time' in a ballot of the public run by the BBC during December last year.
	www.bbc.co.uk /oxford/content/articles/2006/02/18/fairport_convention.shtml (374 words)

	Fairport Convention Chronology
		The album links are to the Fairport Convention Fansite, mostly to the CD rather than LP version of each album.
		Fairport Convention 3 : Jan 69 - Jun 69
		Fairport Convention 9 : Jun 72 - Jul 72
	www.stocton.org /fc_chron.htm (392 words)

	Amazon.com: Fairport Convention: Music: Fairport Convention (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although this album was the one where music critics suggested that Fairport were the Brit version of Jefferson Airplane or the Byrds, there really is only little similarity to either of those bands, particularly where vocal harmonies are concerned.
		Overall this album should definitely please Fairport fans, who were not around in the late `60s and want to hear how the band originally used to sound in their early days.
		The Fairports knew her as she had been in the UK at the invitation of their producer, Joe Boyd, and she had played some British dates supporting the Incredible String Band.
	www.amazon.com /Fairport-Convention/dp/B00007J35I (1799 words)

	Biography - Fairport Convention (Bio 783) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		While the revved-up renditions of traditional British folk tunes drew the most critical attention, the group were also (at least at the outset) talented songwriters as well as interpreters.
		Fairport didn't reach their peak until Dyble was replaced after the first album in 1968 by Sandy Denny, who had previously recorded both as a solo act and with the Strawbs.
		Fairport Convention, 'Liege & Lief', 1968, Island, Universal Int.
	musicbase.h1.ru /PPB/ppb7/Bio_783.htm (922 words)

	JR.com: FAIRPORT CONVENTION in Music (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fairport Convention: Sandy Denny (vocals); Simon Nicol, Richard Thompson (guitar); Dave Swarbrick (violin, viola); Ashley Hutchings...
		Fairport Convention: Sandy Denny (vocals); Richard Thompson, Simon Nicol (guitar, background vocals); Ashley Hutchings (bass); Martin...
		Fairport Convention: Simon Nicol, Richard Thompson (vocals, guitar); Dave Swarbrick (vocals, fiddle); Dave Pegg (bass); Dave Mattacks...
	www.jr.com /xs-fairport-convention-in-music--ap!t;nn!676014.html (397 words)

	Fairport Convention: Come All Ye
		I'm as proud of how Fairport relates to its audience as I am of any music we have produced.
		A Fairport concert is like a meeting of friends.
		The festival is a celebration of Fairport's music and members past and present.
	www.innerviews.org /inner/fairport.html (563 words)

	Fairport Convention Reinvention
		While British folk-rock progenitor Fairport Convention was never less than mercurial — with a revolving door of band members that began with its first, self-titled, recording and continues to this day — there have also been clearly defined periods where, despite personnel changes, distinct identities would emerge.
		While there’s no question that Fairport Convention have always been informed by rock and roll, when they actually get down to performing a bonafide rock and roll tune, they invariably fall flat.
		While Fairport was seeing many of its contemporaries reach greater levels of popular acceptance; they remained something of a niche band, struggling to make ends meet from album-to-album, and tour-to-tour.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=18408 (2190 words)

	Fairport Convention
		Ogni anno i Fairport radunano decine di migliaia di spettatori di ogni età nel villaggio di Cropredy per un festival dedicato alla loro musica.
		Oltre a lanciare luminose carriere soliste, come quella tuttora eccezionale di Richard Thompson e quella purtroppo tragicamente interrotta nel 1978 di Sandy Denny, i Fairport vantano un’amicizia storica con una delle band più amate della storia del rock, i Jethro Tull, con i quali hanno condiviso tournée fin dal 1970.
		Due membri dei Fairport Convention, il bassista Dave Pegg e il batterista Gerry Conway hanno suonato in parallelo per diversi anni nel gruppo di Ian Anderson.
	www.festivalditorrechiara.it /fairport.htm (498 words)

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