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The album /band that influenced me most ,and got me" INTO " folk was ------LED ZEPPELIN 4 . With the Battle of Evermore and Stairway to Heaven . I wanted more of the same so I bought L&L because of Sandy Denny `s wonderful singing on B of E . That/those LP /lp`s blew me away . Since then I`ve been hooked on FC and folk rock . The main question is-- where did it start for me? Is the answer L Z 4 or L & L ? . LZ or FC? I really dont know the answer to that .   |
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For me, it was The Byrds - particularly their 5TH DIMENSION album. Their versions of Wild Mountain Tyme and John Riley really opened my eyes and ears to the folk ballad songs. Once I heard these arrangements, I never turned back! Certainly, The Byrds primed me for the delight of discovering Fairport some years later.  |
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« Reply #22 on: December 03, 2005, 10:00:24 PM » |
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The most influential folk album for me had to be All Around my Hat. I bought from Sunshine Records in Oxford. I bought it after I heard Steeleye on Pick of the Pops or whatever it was called in 1976 . I fell in love with Maddy's vocals. The rest is history, Gamble Gold, The Wife of Ushers Well etc etc .
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« Reply #23 on: December 05, 2005, 01:41:18 PM » |
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It's often said that The Band's Big Pink inspired FC to embark on their English Folk Song route. So in a sense Music From Big Pink could be the most influential folk album.
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« Reply #24 on: December 05, 2005, 02:13:34 PM » |
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The Dick Gaughan album would be "Handful of Earth" which was voted album of the decade in the '80s. Fabulous album. I heard it played at a Rory McLeod gig 2 weeks ago.
Fairport may yet loose out on a split vote for any of the 3 seminal albums in the period. I'll have to go with L&L as it is the complete package and launched a style of music from which, in Joe Boyd's words so much good, bad and indifferent followed! Also, its nice to see the Fairports winning something!
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Another spanner in the works, I'm afraid. I voted for 'Unhalfbricking'.
'Liege & Lief' is often quoted as the 'seminal' English folk-rock album; but without the 'psychedelic folk' experiments of 'Nottamun Town' and 'She Moves Through the Fair' on 'What We Did On Our Holidays' and the epochal 'A Sailor's Life'(with Swarbrick) on 'Unhalfbricking', there would have been no 'L&L'.
I love those first 3 albums and far prefer the 'psychedelic' folk approach than the traditional arrangements rocked up we got afterwards - good as they are. They didn't really come back to that sound until Trev and Jerry joined up for 'Rosie' - which may be why the Lucas-Donahue(-Denny) line-up is my second favourite Fairport era.
Undeniable, as it is a personal preference, but totally irrelevant. The vote is for "most influential". Ask any Jo Schmo off the street to name a Fairport album and if he is capable of naming one it will more than likely be L&L. It may not be the most influential folk album of all time, but it is unquestionably Fairport's. Personally, I go for one of his Bobness' oeuvre - probably Highway 61..... |
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« Reply #26 on: December 06, 2005, 08:24:19 PM » |
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For me, it was The Byrds - particularly their 5TH DIMENSION album. Their versions of Wild Mountain Tyme and John Riley really opened my eyes and ears to the folk ballad songs. Once I heard these arrangements, I never turned back! Certainly, The Byrds primed me for the delight of discovering Fairport some years later. being a bit younger at the time, i'll join in again and say the levellers did the same for me, not all that folky, less so subsequently, but without them i would probably have never started going to festivals at all, and so would possibly still be a grungy shoegazer, in my room with my bloody valentine and a stack of freak brothers comics. long live the fiddle! |
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but without them i would probably have never started going to festivals at all, and so would possibly still be a grungy shoegazer, in my room with my bloody valentine and a stack of freak brothers comics.
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« Reply #28 on: January 05, 2006, 10:47:53 PM » |
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Looks like Liege and Lief has got it.
According to DM's website he is coming over for the Folk Awards to play with SN, Ashley, Swarb and RT. We assume that L&L has won the Most Influential Album.
Tickets are by invitation only. And what's more the bloody show isn't being televised - only being featured on Harding's radio 2 slot.
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« Reply #30 on: January 05, 2006, 11:42:58 PM » |
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Looks like Liege and Lief has got it.
According to DM's website he is coming over for the Folk Awards to play with SN, Ashley, Swarb and RT. We assume that L&L has won the Most Influential Album.
Tickets are by invitation only. And what's more the bloody show isn't being televised - only being featured on Harding's radio 2 slot.
Photos, Chris?
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« Reply #31 on: January 06, 2006, 04:50:18 PM » |
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yes indeed! I will certainly email the beeb...
Message for Mods - can we have this in a new thread, suitably titled for maximum coverage???
(and if anyone has a spare ticket for the Awards night.............)
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« Reply #32 on: January 06, 2006, 07:12:32 PM » |
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Just seen copies of L & L in HMV with stickers on stating that it had won the award. Great value at under £6 as well.  rachel |
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« Reply #33 on: January 07, 2006, 07:40:33 AM » |
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Question #1: Can some kind soul provide an e-mail addy to pester the Beeb with, please. (Far too lazy to get it for myself!)
Question #2: But a thought...
Obviously, getting the 'L&L' line-up back together for a televised gig beyond Cropredy is a WONDERFUL idea.
But what chance of making this something other than an exercise of acknowledgement-to-nostalgia?
In other words, using it to give some profile to today's Fairport, Richard's body of work as a solo artist, Ashley's post-Fairport adventures, DM being one of the most sought-after session drummers in the world, etc?
I'm sure there are cleverer heads than mine to think about how to exploit this (to everyone's benefit)...so get to work please.
Question #3: what about the Sandy voice? Richard, (pre-illness) Swarb and Simon all turned out to be capable singers - Swarb being the best at larynx exercises. But 'L&L' was fronted by one of the most distinctive female voices ever
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« Reply #34 on: January 07, 2006, 08:33:46 AM » |
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« Reply #36 on: January 07, 2006, 04:39:57 PM » |
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It's llikely to be *far* too late in the day (read film-unit schedules) to start lobbying the Beeb. Where does it state that it isn't being filmed, btw?
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« Reply #38 on: January 07, 2006, 08:14:32 PM » |
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'L&L' was fronted by one of the most distinctive female voices ever
And will be represented by the fabulous Chris While |
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« Reply #39 on: January 07, 2006, 08:28:39 PM » |
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