Fairport Convention - What We Did On Our Holidays flac album

What We Did on Our Holidays (released as Fairport Convention in the United States) is the 1969 second album by the band Fairport Convention. It was their first album to feature singer-songwriter Sandy Denny, whose "haunting, ethereal vocals gave Fairport a big boost", according to Richie Unterberger.

First issue on a pink Island label with ''bullseye'' logo in a front laminated sleeve. Reissue sleeves are laminated front and back.

Fairport Convention CD Album What We Did On Our Holidays Island Master IMCD97. I was introduced to folk music through this album on a hazy hot summer's day long ago. I remember the start with "Fotheringay" made instantly a great impression to me; The webs weaved by classical acoustic guitars and amplified bass, accompanied with few bells and Sandy Denny's celestial vocals describing the final moments of Queen Mary of Scots, all this uniting as most beautiful and harmonious tonal scenery.

Fairport Convention are commonly considered to be the first British folk-rock group, which is essentially true even if it doesn't really count for much. Instead, the band mingled those jangly Yankee innovations with British folk traditions, rearranging and exploding old ballads and jigs into crisp new rock songs. Legendary producer Joe Boyd oversaw both records, lending them a live sound that complements the musicians' youthful vigor.

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After a couple of months of listening this album has grown in my estimation. I was familiar with some of the more well-known tracks from Fairport compilations and Cropredy, but many of the tracks were new to me. It's clear that the band were in transition on this album, but that doesn't detract from the quality. It seems very well balanced between own compositions and covers, folk and "American", so that once the songs break the familiarity barrier they appeal more and more

Fairport Convention is Fairport Convention's debut album. The band formed in 1967, with the original line-up consisting of Richard Thompson (guitar); Simon Nicol (guitar); Ashley Tyger Hutchings (bass); and Sean Frater (drums), who was replaced after their first gig by Martin Lamble

1969 was the year of Fairport Convention's second, third and fourth studio albums, of which we're reDiscovering What We Did On Our Holidays. Their first, self-titled album, recorded late in 1967 and released the following June, appeared while the group were advancing their reputation on the live circuit. When we started in ’67, Hutchings told this writer in Prog magazine, we were kind of copying the Americans. It’s a wonder that we had the success we did. But John Peel got behind us, and a lot of other people, and then by the second album - third album, certainly - we were starting to get folkier