This release we navigate the uncharted waters of Fairport Convention’s early voyages across the UK, European and American airwaves. Fairport initially focused on covers of future classics by US / Canadian singer-songwriters such as Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Richard Farina and Bob Dylan, but delivered these covers in increasingly extended electric versions, becoming England’s answer to Jefferson Airplane. Within two years the band evolved into the prime-movers of British electric folk-rock, mixing electrified traditional songs with outstanding original material provided mainly by Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson.

Label
Rhythm and Blues Records
Genre
Folk LP - SIDE A
Time Will Show The Wiser (Emmitt Rhodes)
I Still Miss Someone (Johnny Cash/Roy Cash Jnr.)
Bird On A Wire (Leonard Cohen)
If It Feels Good, You Know it Can't Be Wrong (Thompson/ Hutchings)
I'll Keep It With Mine (Bob Dylan)
LP - SIDE B
Sickness And Diseases (Swarbrick/ Thompson)
Sloth (Swarbrick/ Thompson)
Billy The Orphan Boy's Lonely Xmas (Thompson)
She Moves Through The Fair (Traditional)

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