Dylanisms | Podcast Mixes Celebrating Bob Dylan Cover Versions
"Dylanisms" is a podcast featuring a 10-song mix of Bob Dylan cover versions, focusing on 1960s recordings by various solo artists and groups, particularly lesser-known garage bands. The project aims to create an extensive archive and will be available through a paid subscription for one year on RSS.com.#fairportconvention
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheRiseAndFallOf
Fairport Convention:
🎵 Matty Groves
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Fairport Convention:
🎵 Who Knows Where The Time Goes?
https://mastersoffolk.bandcamp.com/track/who-knows-where-the-time-goes-live
Swarbrick by Dave Swarbrick, released on Transatlantic Records in 1976.
Swarbrick Review by Steve Winick
Swarb's first solo album features old buddies from his Ceilidh band days as well as Martin Carthy and Fairport Convention. It includes a lot of good dance music, plus a few slower tunes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jjK2JfIAi0&list=RD2jjK2JfIAi0&start_radio=1
#DaveSwarbrick #TransatlanticRecords #Folk #MartinCarthy #FairportConvention #Music #Fiddle #Violin
Just back from seeing Fairport Convention and had a lovely time. Great set list: Crazy Man Michael, The Hiring Fair, Doctor of Psysick(!!!!), Fotheringay, The Banks of the Sweet Primroses (!!), Who Knows Where the Time Goes... Plenty more, too. Wonderful stuff.
Dylanisms | Podcast Mixes Celebrating Bob Dylan Cover Versions
"Dylanisms" is a podcast featuring a 10-song mix of Bob Dylan covers, primarily from the 1960s, highlighting both well-known and obscure artists, especially teenage garage bands. The project aims to create an extensive archive of these recordings over a one-year subscription on RSS.com, celebrating Dylan's influence in music.
Recorded #OnThisDay 56 years ago:
Fairport Convention - Tam Lin (Peel Session)
Tam Lin by Fairport Convention, taken from the Peel Session recorded on 23 September 1969.
Celebrations For A Grey Day by Mimi & Richard Fariña, released on Vanguard in 1965
Celebrations for a Grey Day Review by Richie Unterberger
Richard & Mimi Fariña's debut effectively laid out their approach: Appalachian-like instrumentals that put the dulcimer to the fore alternate with strong contemporary folk compositions, which are by turns mournful and high-spirited. The world-weary "Reno Nevada" (a part of Fairport Convention's repertoire in their early days) is the duo's best song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REQc1Hmi1hw&list=OLAK5uy_lRgpf4fXUTzcjw9H99NkrW1GCAwt1CRQM&index=12
#RichardandMimiFariña #RichardFarina #Vanguard #folkmusic #dulcimer #folkrock #fairportconvention
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #NightTracks
Fairport Convention:
🎵 She Moves Through the Fair
#BBCRadio3 #FairportConvention
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She Moves Through The Fair
Nikki Clayton - Movers and Shakers. The good thing about 2nd hand CDs are they are so cheap. You can afford to try something you won’t have heard. This one has Martin Barre and Ric Sanders on so I had to get it. A wi Sergio folk album. #folk #fairportconvention #jethrotull @martinbarreofficial
Self-Titled Summer | Fotheringay (1970, UK)
Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 280 on The List, submitted by baz. Fotheringay was a short-lived British folk rock quintet formed by Sandy Denny after she left Fairport Convention, along with Denny’s partner and Australian guitarist Trevor Lucas plus drummer Gerry Conway (both formerly of folk psych prog rock band Eclection), and American guitarist Jerry Donahue and Scottish bassist Pat Donaldson (both formerly of prog psych group Poet and The One Man Band). While the band members would work together again on solo projects and in Fairport Convention, this was the group's only studio album.
Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: https://1001otheralbums.com/2025/08/09/self-titled-summer-fotheringay-1970-uk/
Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QmMr1RfdVw. It's also on Dailymotion here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x263bv2
Happy listening!
#Fotheringay #SandyDenny #TrevorLucas #GerryConway #JerryDonahue #PatDonaldson #FairportConvention #BritishFolk #FolkRock #selftitled #music #1001OtherAlbums
Self-Titled Summer | Fotheringay (1970, UK)
Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 280 on The List, submitted by baz. Here’s a quick rundown:
- Point of origin(s): Fotheringay was a British folk rock quintet formed by Sandy Denny after she left Fairport Convention (following the release of their 1969 Liege & Leaf, which we looked at nearly a year ago in a SpaceAce Sunday), named after Denny’s song of the same name from the Fairport Convention album What We Did on Our Holidays. The other members were Denny’s partner and Australian guitarist Trevor Lucas plus drummer Gerry Conway (both formerly of folk psych prog rock band Eclection), and American guitarist Jerry Donahue and Scottish bassist Pat Donaldson (both formerly of prog psych group Poet and The One Man Band). This was their debut album.
- Tasting notes: Folk rock with some jazzy bits, Sandy Denny’s remarkable voice, wistful longing
- Standout track: Their cover of Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Way I Feel” – I want that song to last forever. The opener “Nothing More”, the first piano track Denny would write, is also fantastic (as it is on their live album, Essen 1970, released in 2011).
- Where are they now?/RIP: This is the only album released while the original lineup was together. They disbanded in January 1971 during recording sessions for a second album. While some of this material would later be released in 2008 under the title 2, some was used for Denny’s debut solo album (the 1971 The North Star Grassman and the Ravens) and on a Fairport Convention album (the 1972 Rosie), as Conway, Donahue, and Lucas had all joined that band after Fotheringay broke up (Donahue and Lucas from 1972-5, Conway just briefly at the time as a session musician, but then again later from 1998-2022). Denny would go on to have a successful but short solo career (with her former bandmates appearing on some of her albums), and would also briefly rejoin Fairport Convention in 1974-5. She tragically died in 1978 at the age of 31. Lucas then returned to Australia and mainly worked as a producer and film score composer until his death in 1989. In addition to his long stint in Fairport Convention, Conway was also in Pentangle from 1987 until his death just last year (he was married to Pentangle’s singer, Jacqui McShee). Donahue has a rather lengthy CV, working as both a musician (including guitar trio The Hellecasters plus being in The Yardbirds around 2004-5) and producer, at least up until a stroke in 2016 that affected his ability to play guitar. Donaldson was also in a few other bands and worked as a session musician (including for John Cale and Stevie Nicks)[1] at least into the 2010s. Quite a group, this one.
- Websites: Wikipedia
Happy listening!
- Though a non-Fotheringay/Fairport Convention-related tidbit, a fun find for me in writing this up is Donaldson’s work on Mae McKenna’s Everything That Touches Me (1976). I know this album as McKenna is the mother of Jamie Woon, whose debut LP we’ll see in a future spotlight because I had added it to The List. ↩︎
#1970s #BritishFolk #FairportConvention #folkRock #Fotheringay #GerryConway #JerryDonahue #music #musicDiscovery #PatDonaldson #SandyDenny #selftitled #TrevorLucas
Listening to one my all-time favourite tracks
Fairport Convention, Who knows where the times goes?
Second Album Review by Bruce Eder
This record stands in British music history and Carthy's career roughly where Another Side of Bob Dylan does in American music--the more florrid tracks here, recorded with violinist Dave Swarbrick, show the path to the bridge between Carthy's traditional singer/scholar background and the folk-rock played by bands such as Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span. "Lord Franklin" is a narrative tour-de-force (from which Bob Dylan got the melody for "Bob Dylan's Dream" on Freewheelin' ), "Ramblin' Sailor" is boisterous cautionary tale about the company the title character keeps ashore, and there's also an acoustic recording of "Sailor's Life," a song that Fairport Convention would transmute into an epic electric version, and "Lowlands of Holland," which Steeleye Span later recorded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9H-Jt7_OJE&list=PLbOa-bH3OrDY-xvXkV7zM6jOAMBvdPvnP&index=5
#martincarthy #daveswarbrick #folkmusic #brtishfolk #englishfolk #bobdylan #fairportconvention #steeleyespan #1966inmusic
Fairport Convention -- Liege And Lief
https://youtu.be/MPuAOF3TiLk?si=96FZKOl5w5FX6zbS
https://urusai.social/@gnitro has just mentioned listening to this album but finding it was not his cup of tea.
I rediscovered this album about a year ago. Like @gnitro, I'm a Kpop fan, so one might expect my reation to be similar to his, since the sound of British folk rock of the late sixties is far indeed from the polished studio production of today's Seoul .
Yet I do respond to that "Come All Ye". I don't think it's just nostalgia on my part; there's something about the rediscovery of traditional English music and its re-expression in a more modern idiom that stirs me, albeit in a fashion without flags, Faragism, or any other kind of fascistic nonsense.
#FairportConvention #LiegeAndLief #BritishFolkRock #EnglishMusic
"Babbacombe" Lee is a 1971 album by British folk rock group Fairport Convention..
The album follows John "Babbacombe" Lee's life story. The events of his life are described in song, from his boyhood through his conviction for murder, sentence of death, and the failure to carry out the execution. The songs describe his boyhood poverty, his time in the Royal Navy, and his being invalided out. The album then describes how Lee went to work in the service of a Miss Keyes. While Lee was in her service, she was murdered, and he was accused, tried and convicted of the crime, and sentenced to death; however, when authorities attempted to hang him, the gallows failed three times, resulting in his release. These events are all told in song, and all but one of those songs are originals.
Dave Swarbrick has explained that he conceived the album after discovering a file of old newspaper clippings in a junk shop.. - Wikipedia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrld5ygTEeQ&list=PL6YEv4G8u_2UqBh57KrTnFbKlK1uAtWLz&index=1
Tired Afternoon
I stayed up too late last night and now I am tired. That’s how it works for all of us, but it seems to be a bigger issue for folks who are old like me. I am going to have a birthday in a couple of weeks and I’m going to be 54. Wait… really? How is that possible? I know in the grand scheme of things that 54 isn’t that bad, I mean it’s not 80 or anything, but damn… I was 27 a few days ago. Wasn’t I?
What was I writing about?
Oh yeah, I am tired. It seems somehow worse than that though as I didn’t have time to follow any news yesterday and today I got caught up on the collapse of civilization. So RFK wants to create a autism database or some shit? Hmmm… didn’t the nazis do that with mental illnesses? Yeah, something like that. No surprise that we’re resurrecting that particular evil, but there you go. That on top of prison time without due process and willfully collapsing the economy in order to scam a couple of bucks off the rubes. Yeah. Are we great again? Maybe I’ll open up a new Signal chat and ask about it.
Ugh. Here’s a cat:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54470856163/in/datetaken/
If the cat didn’t temporarily straighten out your soul, maybe a song will help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygi8v7UcNMs
#americanFascism #Cat #fairportConvention #Fascism #fascistStatesOfAmerica #health #Hipstamatic #iphoneography #Kitty #Music #photography #Politics #robin #trumpIsAFascist #trumpIsANazi #trumpIsEvil #unitedStatesOfFascism
Ted Tocks Covers
Who Knows Where the Time Goes
Originally posted on April 21, 2018
An early example of Ted Tocks Covers that shares the stories behind the songs that trace the interesting artists that bring us the music.
This is a short piece featuring Sandy Denny.
“So come the storms of winter
And then the birds in spring again
I have no fear of time”
#SandyDenny #TheStrawbs #FairportConvention #JudyCollins #CrosbyStillsandNash #LedZeppelin
https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2018/04/21/who-knows-where-the-time-goes/
The Merry-Go-Round Review by Tim Sendra
The Merry-Go-Round's self-titled 1967 album is a breathtaking blend of chiming folk-rock guitars, British Invasion harmony vocals, baroque pop arrangements, and pure pop songcraft ...The Beatles are a huge influence ..You can hear the Byrds a bit, some Left Banke ...But there are some songs that are quite unique and original like "Time Will Show the Wiser" with its otherworldly sped up and backward guitars and enchanting melody..the overall quality of the songs and the group's loose and earthy playing, help lift the album above the pack and should lead to it being mentioned in the same breath as Love's first album or Buffalo Springfield's first when talking about classic American debut albums of the '60s.
Time Will Show The Wiser was covered by Fairport Convetion on their debut and they still play it live to this day.
#emittrhodes #fairportconvention #themerrygoround #psychedelia #1967inmusic
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