Their seminal album Liege & Lief is considered to have launched the electric folk or English folk rock movement, which provided a distinctively English identity to rock music and helped awaken much wider interest in traditional music in general. The large number of personnel who have been part of the band are among the most highly regarded and influential musicians of their era and have gone on to participate in a large number of significant bands, or enjoyed important solo careers.....Liege & Lief is the fourth album by the English folk rock band Fairport Convention. It is the third and final album the group released in the UK in 1969, all of which prominently feature Sandy Denny as lead female vocalist. (Denny did not appear on the group's 1968 debut album). It is also the very first Fairport album on which all songs have either been adapted (freely) from traditional British and Celtic folk material (for example "Matty Groves", "Tam Lin"), or else are original compositions (such as "Come All Ye", "Crazy Man Michael") written and performed in a similar style. By introducing songs of this genre into the group's repertoire Denny, who had previously sung and recorded traditional folk songs as a solo artist, was instrumental in this transformation. Although Denny quit the band even before the album's release, Fairport Convention has continued to the present day to make music almost exclusively within the traditional British folk music idiom, and are still most strongly associated with it.
Once again an L/P from over the pond that I have not heard and know nothing about !!..Good job we have "Wikipedia" to fill in the gaps !!!...it should have been around in the 50's would have saved me shoe leather and time traipsing all round the record shops looking for particular records !! ......thanks John for hedificating me !!!!
1. Come All Ye
2. Reynardine
3. Matty Groves
4. Farewell Farewell
1. The Deserter
2. Medley
3. Tam Lin
4. Crazy Man Michael
3. Matty Groves
