DESCRIPTION:
What We Did on Our Holidays is the second album release by the band Fairport Convention and was the first to feature Sandy Denny, whose "haunting, ethereal vocals gave Fairport a big boost", according to Allmusic's reviewer.[1] The album also showed a move towards the folk rock for which they became noted, including tracks later to become perennial favourites such as "Fotheringay" and the song traditionally used to close live concerts, "Meet on the Ledge".[2]
Sandy Denny (as Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny) - vocals, acoustic & 12-string acoustic guitars, organ, piano, harpsichord
Iain Matthews - vocals, congas
Richard Thompson - electric, acoustic & 12-string acoustic guitars, piano accordion, vocals
Ashley Hutchings - bass, backing vocals
Simon Nicol - electric & acoustic guitars, electric autoharp, electric dulcimer, backing vocals
Martin Lamble - drums, percussion, violin, tabla & footsteps
1. "Fotheringay" Sandy Denny 3:06
2. "Mr Lacey" Ashley Hutchings 2:55
3. "Book Song" Iain Matthews, Richard Thompson 3:13
4. "The Lord Is in This Place...How Dreadful Is This Place" (based on "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" by Blind Willie Johnson) Hutchings, Thompson, Denny 2:01 5. "No Man's Land" Thompson 2:32
6. "I'll Keep It With Mine" Bob Dylan 5:56
Side two
1. "Eastern Rain" Joni Mitchell 3:36
2. "Nottamun Town" traditional, arranged by Denny, Matthews, Thompson, Simon Nicol, Hutchings, Martin Lamble 3:12
3. "Tale in Hard Time" Thompson 3:29
4. "She Moves Through the Fair" traditional, arr. Denny, Matthews, Thompson, Nicol, Hutchings, Lamble 4:14
5. "Meet on the Ledge" Thompson 2:50
6. "End of a Holiday" Nico
2nd Fairports album first with Sandy a classic I hope you enjoy!
This is ripped straight fron my LP using a PC audio recorder so foregive the quality but hopefuly it retains the purity of an LP by far and a way the best and only true way to experience real music.
If you like the fairports please check out "the Trees" my fav uk acid folk band search : In the garden of Jane Delorny " or "on the shore" and stay tuned to my channel for more mind expanding folk music!