Fairport Convention
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Category: Progressive Music Lounges
Forum Name: Suggest New Bands and Artists
Forum Description: Suggest, create polls, and classify new bands you would like included on Prog Archives
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Topic: Fairport Convention
Posted By: Guests
Subject: Fairport Convention
Date Posted: June 07 2005 at 09:53
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Fairport Convention was one of the very first and greatest progressive
folk outfits, and they're conspicuously absent. It's hard to
believe you have prog-folk listed here and not Fairport
Convention. If you guys agree on adding them, I can provide a bio. |
Replies:
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 03:22
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I'd disagree with this one - FC are/were a superb band, but apart from a very few tracks (mostly from the Maartin Allcock period), I don't think I'd consider them prog-folk.
Wont stop me being at Cropredy, though...  ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: June 11 2005 at 13:24
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Agree with Jim here, FC were great, especially during the What We Did
On Out Holidays - Unhalfbricking - Liege And Lief - Full House -
Babacombe Lee phase ... but I'd hardly call any of it prog ... simply
top drawer folk-rock like The Byrds, Steeleye Span, Simon And
Garfunkel, Lindisfarne ... isn't the same as prog-folk to me ... In fact I'll admit that aside from a couple of songs like Ghosts, I don't really think the Strawbs are a prog-folk outfit ... I love 'em all though .....  ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |