Product Code: | IL 34784 |
Artist: | Fairport Convention |
Origin: | New Zealand |
Label: | Island (1973) |
Format: | LP |
Availability: | Enquire Now |
Condition: |
Cover: VG+
Record: NM (M-)
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Genre: | Country Rock , Folk Rock , Rock U |
Very smart clean vinyl with a good stippled cover..
The album was the first to feature Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist Trevor Lucas and American lead guitarist Jerry Donahue. Both had previously played with ex-Fairport Sandy Denny, to whom Lucas was married, in the short-lived Fotheringay. Here they had effectively replaced Simon Nicol who had quit Fairport to join another ex-member Ashley Hutchings in The Albion Band, thus leaving the band with no founding members until he rejoined in 1976.
Drummer Dave Mattacks also joined the Albion Band for a while but rejoined during the making of Rosie. He only plays on four of the ten tracks; on others, drums are handled alternately by Tim Donald and Gerry Conway. Like Donahue and Lucas, Conway was also ex-Fotheringay, and would himself join Fairport in 1998; he remains with them to this day.