• Liege & Lief is the fourth album by the British folk rock band Fairport Convention. It is the third album the group released in the UK during 1969, all...
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    turning entirely towards British folk music for their seminal album Liege & Lief, released the same year. This style has been the band's focus ever since...
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  • What We Did on Our Holidays and reached its peak on the follow-up, Liege & Lief, released later the same year. The album features several Bob Dylan songs...
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    Fairport Convention from 1969, he assisted on their influential album Liege & Lief (1969) which is credited with initiating the British folk rock movement...
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    would result in the fourth album Liege & Lief. Usually considered the highpoint of the band's long career, Liege & Lief was a huge leap forward in concept...
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  • highly regarded albums: What We Did on Our Holidays, Unhalfbricking, and Liege & Lief were all released by the band during 1969, and are today considered touchstones...
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  • then proved to be the inspiration for an entire album, the influential Liege & Lief (1969). Denny left Fairport Convention in December 1969 to develop her...
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  • Graham 1967: Fire & Fleet & Candlelight by Buffy Sainte-Marie 1969: Liege & Lief by Fairport Convention 1969: Prince Heathen by Martin Carthy and Dave...
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  • for a solo career early the following year. As their previous album, Liege & Lief, had reinterpreted a number of traditional folk tunes, so did Full House...
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    choice was "Come All Ye" by Fairport Convention, from their 1969 album Liege & Lief, which he described as "one of the greatest albums ever made." Kemp was...
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  • style, before a radical change of direction in 1969 with their album Liege & Lief, which came out of the encounter between American inspired folk rock...
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    Daniel Dutton "Tam Lin" Twelve Ballads 2006 Fairport Convention "Tam Lin" Liege & Lief 1969 Archie Fisher "Tam Lin" Big Bend Killing: The Appalachian Ballad...
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  • highest number of traditional songs that Fairport had recorded since Liege & Lief. For this album, Simon Nicol returned after an absence of five years...
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    Cropredy in 2019, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the release of Liege & Lief. He began as a trainee piano-tuner before taking up the drums. He played...
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    as "Crazy Man Michael" from the band's seminal 1969 folk-rock album Liege & Lief and "Sloth" from its 1970 follow-up Full House. In January 1971, Thompson...
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  • Fairport Convention in the USA) July 1969 Unhalfbricking December 1969 Liege & Lief July 1970 Full House June 1971 Angel Delight November 1971 "Babbacombe"...
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    Unhalfbricking 1969 Nick Drake Five Leaves Left 1969 Fairport Convention Liege & Lief 1969 Dr. Strangely Strange Kip of the Serenes 1969 The Incredible String...
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    their 1970 album Full House, and with Sandy Denny in the reissue of Liege & Lief; Nic Jones on his 1970 album, Ballads and Songs; Jackie Leven on his...
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  • which marked the beginning of the genre, leading to the seminal album Liege & Lief later that year. British music website Uncut describes the track as:...
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  • would have been at home on Fairport Convention's groundbreaking album Liege & Lief, which was itself hugely influenced by the spirit of the Band's Music...
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  • "Farewell, Farewell", recorded by Fairport Convention on their album Liege and Lief in 1969, is an adaptation featuring new lyrics by Richard Thompson....
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  • Sandy Denny is a 2010 compilation box set of recordings by folk singer Sandy Denny and comprises all studio material and recordings made during her time...
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    a rented house near Winchester in Hampshire and worked on the album Liege & Lief. Despite the success of the album, Ashley Hutchings and the band's vocalist...
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  • significant moment was the release of Fairport Convention's 1969 album Liege & Lief, which developed further in the 1970s, when it was taken up by groups...
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  • decades later." It is described as a template for Fairport Convention's Liege & Lief (1969). Stanley, Bob (13 September 2013). "An English Pastoral: Folk...
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  • eleventh album Rugh & Ryf (itself a parody of Fairport Convention's Liege & Lief). "Meet on the Ledge". Humphries, Patrick (1982). Meet on the Ledge:...
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  • excellent vocal from Sandy Denny which was an unreleased track from the Liege & Lief sessions and "Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman" which had been recorded...
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  • Liege & Lief (1969) Fotheringay (1970) It's Sandy Denny (1970)...
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    a rented house near Winchester in Hampshire and worked on the album Liege & Lief. Despite the success of the album, Ashley Hutchings and the band's vocalist...
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  • Deserter", a traditional song featured on Fairport Convention's album Liege & Lief Deserters Peak, British Columbia Deserters Group, a group of islands...
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