(updated jan 29 2004)
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| ItemID | 082619 | |
| Artist | Fairport Convention | |
| Title | Fullhouse | |
| Format | CD | |
| Genre | Folk | |
| Label Name | HANNIBAL | |
| qty unit | 1 | |
| In Stock | [ Verify database ] - - -> DETAIL | |
| Price | 16 ( in Euro's ) | DETAIL |
| URL | -> |
(updated jan 29 2004)
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| Sandy Denny and bassist Ashley Hutchings are gone Thompson and Swarbrick take over as singers, Dave Pegg (more recently of Jethro Tull) plays bass, and the result, strangely enough, is an album that may be more viscerally exciting than Liege And Lief, if not quite as important as that record, since it came first Not only does the singing here retain the high standard of the earlier incarnation of the group (check out the harmony singing on Sir Patrick Spens and Flowers of the Forest ), but the playing throughout has greater urgency and punch, from the rousing Thompson-Swarbrick opener Walk Awhile to the haunting, moody, dazzling nine-minute Sloth, which remained part of the group s live set for years An indispensable recording, and one that anybody who wants to truly know this band, or, especially, to take in some of the best work of Richard Thompson s career must own (his playing on Sloth alone makes it worthwhile) Swarbrick s fiddle and viola playing is also among the best of his career Ironically, Thompson would make this his last full-time studio venture with Fairport, but what a way to go | ||