This is a list of recordings by the folk rock

Folk rock

Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the UK around the mid-1960s...

 group Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention are an English folk rock and later electric folk band, formed in 1967 who are still recording and touring today. They are widely regarded as the most important single group in the English folk rock movement...

, usually credited as the first English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 electric folk

Electric folk

Electric folk is the name given to the form of folk rock pioneered in England from the late 1960s, and most significant in the 1970s, which then was taken up and developed in the surrounding Celtic cultures of Brittany, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man, to produce Celtic rock and its...

 band. Founded in 1967 and initially covering songs by artists such as Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

 and Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...

, they developed a devoted niche following by providing electrified

Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

 and upbeat versions of traditional folk tunes mixed with their own compositions. In a career spanning over forty years, notable for numerous changes of lineup as well as continued success, Fairport Convention have issued over fifty albums.

Singles (UK issues)

• "If (Stomp)"/"If I Had a Ribbon Bow" February 1968, (Track Records)
• "Meet on the Ledge
  Meet on the Ledge
  "Meet on the Ledge" was Fairport Convention's second single.The song was taken from the album What We Did on Our Holidays. BBC Radio 2's Sold On Song TOP 100 songs as voted for by Radio 2 listeners put their early song "Meet On The Ledge" at Number 17...
  
  "/"Throwaway Street Puzzle" December 1968 (Island)
• "I'll Keep It With Mine"/"Fotheringay" - 1969
• "Si Tu Dois Partir"/"Genesis Hall" - July 1969 Chart: #21
• "If (Stomp)"/"Chelsea Morning
  Chelsea Morning
  "Chelsea Morning" is a song written by Joni Mitchell and introduced on the singer's 1969 album Clouds..The song was inspired by Mitchell's room in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. The inspiration for the first verse comes partly from the distinct décor of her apartment...
  
  " - April 1970 (Polydor Records)
• "Now Be Thankful
  Now Be Thankful
  "Now Be Thankful" is a 1970 single by Fairport Convention released by Island Records . The lyrics are by Dave Swarbrick and Richard Thompson, :-When the stone is grown too cold to kneelIn crystal waters I'll be bound...
  
  "/"Sir B. McKenzie's Daughter's Lament..." - September 1970 (Island)
• "Walk Awhile"/"Sir Patrick Spens
  Sir Patrick Spens
  "Sir Patrick Spens" is one of the most popular of the Child Ballads , and is of Scottish origin.-Historicity:The events of the ballad are similar to, and may chronicle, an actual event: the bringing home of the Scottish queen Margaret, Maid of Norway across the North Sea in 1290...
  
  " - Late 1970
• "Sickness & Diseases"/"Wizard Of Worldly Game" - 1971
• "John Lee"/"The Time Is Near" - February 1972 (Island)
• "The World Has Surely Lost Its Head"/"The Journeyman's Grace" - February 1972
• "Rosie"/"Knights of the Road" - February 1973, Island
• "Rosie"/"Fiddlestix" - May 1973
• "The Devil In The Kitchen"/"Possibly Parsons Green" - January 1974
• "White Dress"/"Tears" - 1975, Island
• "Si Tu Dois Partir"/"White Dress" - August 1975
• "Jams O'Donnell's Jig"/"The Last Waltz" - June 1978
• "Rubber Band"/"The Bonny Black Hare" - March 1980
• "Quazi-Be-Goode"/"Where Would You Rather Be Tonight?" - August 1986
• "Meet On The Ledge
  Meet on the Ledge
  "Meet on the Ledge" was Fairport Convention's second single.The song was taken from the album What We Did on Our Holidays. BBC Radio 2's Sold On Song TOP 100 songs as voted for by Radio 2 listeners put their early song "Meet On The Ledge" at Number 17...
  
  "/"Sigh Beg Sigh Mor" - May 1987

Studio albums

Release date	Title	Band members
June 1968	Fairport Convention Fairport Convention (album) Fairport Convention is Fairport Convention's debut album. The band formed in 1967, with original line-up Judy Dyble and Ian MacDonald , Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol , Ashley “Tyger” Hutchings and Sean Frater, replaced after their first gig by Martin Lamble...	Judy Dyble Judy Dyble Judith Aileen Dyble, better known as Judy Dyble , is an award winning British singer/songwriter most notable for being one of the vocalists with, and founder members of, Fairport Convention and Trader Horne; in between these she was very briefly with Giles, Giles and Fripp, which evolved into... , Ashley Hutchings Ashley Hutchings Ashley Stephen Hutchings is an English bassist, vocalist, songwriter, arranger, band leader, writer and record producer. He was a founder member of three of the most noteworthy English folk-rock bands in the history of the genre; Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and The Albion Band... , Martin Lamble Martin Lamble Martin Francis Lamble was the drummer for British electric folk band, Fairport Convention, from just after their formation in 1967, until his death in the Fairport Convention van crash in 1969... , Iain Matthews Iain Matthews Iain Matthews is an English musician and songwriter. He was born Iain Matthew McDonald, in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. He was known in the 1960s first as Ian McDonald, then as the 1960s progressed, as Ian Matthews...  (as Ian MacDonald), Simon Nicol Simon Nicol Simon John Breckenridge Nicol is a guitarist, singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He was a founder member of British folk rock, or electric folk group Fairport Convention and is the only founding member still in the band...  , Richard Thompson
January 1969	What We Did on Our Holidays What We Did on Our Holidays - Personnel :* Sandy 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... (titled Fairport Convention in the USA)	Hutchings, Lamble, Matthews, Nicol, Thompson, Sandy Denny Sandy Denny Sandy Denny , born Alexandra Elene Maclean Denny, was an English singer and songwriter, perhaps best known as the lead singer for the folk rock band Fairport Convention...
July 1969	Unhalfbricking Unhalfbricking The band's male vocalist Iain Matthews left during the recordings for Unhalfbricking to make his own album Matthews' Southern Comfort, after recording just one track, "Percy's Song". Sandy Denny sang lead vocals on all the other songs, including her own compositions, "Autopsy", and "Who Knows Where...	Hutchings, Lamble, Nicol, Thompson, Denny
December 1969	Liege & Lief Liege & Lief Liege & Lief is the fourth album by the English rock band Fairport Convention. It is the third and final album the group released in the UK in 1969, all of which prominently feature Sandy Denny as lead female vocalist...	Hutchings, Nicol, Thompson, Denny, Dave Mattacks Dave Mattacks Dave Mattacks is a rock and folk drummer. Best known for his work with Fairport Convention, Mattacks has also worked both as a session musician, and as a performance artist... , Dave Swarbrick Dave Swarbrick Dave Swarbrick is an English folk musician and singer-songwriter. He has been described by Ashley Hutchings as 'the most influential [British] fiddle player bar none' and his style has been copied or developed by almost every British, and many World folk violin players that have followed him...
July 1970	Full House	Nicol, Thompson, Mattacks, Swarbrick, Dave Pegg Dave Pegg Dave Pegg is an English multi-instrumentalist and record producer, arguably most visible as a bass guitarist. He is the longest-serving member of the pre-eminent electric folk band Fairport Convention and has been bassist with a number of important folk and rock groups including The Ian Campbell...
June 1971	Angel Delight Angel Delight (album) Angel Delight is the sixth album by the British folk rock band Fairport Convention. This was the first Fairport Convention album without guitarist Richard Thompson, and the lineup consisted of Simon Nicol , Dave Swarbrick , Dave Pegg , and Dave Mattacks .The title derives from "The Angel" in...	Nicol, Mattacks, Swarbrick, Pegg
November 1971	Babbacombe Lee Babbacombe Lee (album) Babbacombe Lee is the seventh album by English folk rock group Fairport Convention, and was released in 1971. It tells the life story of John "Babbacombe" Lee, a Victorian-era murderer who, although condemned to death, was reprieved after the gallows failed on three occasions to work properly...
1972	The Manor Album (unreleased)	Swarbrick, Pegg, Tom Farnell, David Rae
March 1973	Rosie Rosie (album) Rosie is the eighth studio album by folk-rock outfit Fairport Convention, released in 1973.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...	Mattacks, Swarbrick, Pegg, Jerry Donahue Jerry Donahue Jerry Donahue is an American guitarist and producer primarily known for his work in the British folk rock scene as a member of Fotheringay and Fairport Convention as well as being a member of the rock guitar trio The Hellecasters.-Biography:Donahue was born in New York, the son of big band... , Trevor Lucas Trevor Lucas Trevor George Lucas was an influential folk artist, a member of Fairport Convention and one of the founders of Fotheringay...
October 1973	Nine Nine (Fairport Convention album) Nine is the ninth album by the British folk rock group Fairport Convention and, according to Allmusic, is their most uneven.-Side one:#"The Hexhamshire Lass" – 2:31...
June 1975	Rising for the Moon Rising for the Moon Rising for the Moon is a Fairport Convention album. It reached number 52 in the UK albums charts. This was the last Fairport album to feature Sandy Denny....	Mattacks, Swarbrick, Pegg, Donahue, Lucas, Denny, Bruce Rowland Bruce Rowland (drummer) Bruce Rowland is an English rock drummer best known for his memberships of The Grease Band and folk rock band Fairport Convention. He is also a prolific session musician.-Early career:...
May 1976	Gottle O'Geer Gottle O'Geer Gottle O'Geer is the eleventh studio album by English folk rock band Fairport Convention... - credited to "Fairport featuring Dave Swarbrick" in the UK, to "Fairport Covention" in the USA	Swarbrick, Pegg, Rowland
February 1977	The Bonny Bunch of Roses The Bonny Bunch of Roses (album) The Bonny Bunch of Roses is an album by Fairport Convention.This album had the highest number of traditional songs that Fairport had recorded since Liege and Lief. For this album, Simon Nicol returned after an absence of five years although he had contributed some guitar to the previous record,...	Swarbrick, Pegg, Rowland, Nicol
May 1978	Tipplers Tales Tipplers Tales Tipplers Tales is a 1978 album by Fairport Convention; recorded in only ten days, it was the last album the band recorded for Vertigo. Simon Nicol later wrote Dave Pegg would later say...
August 1985	Gladys' Leap Gladys' Leap Gladys' Leap is a folk rock album by Fairport Convention originally released in August 1985. It was recorded in April and May 1985 at Woodworm Studios, Barford St. Michael, Oxfordshire, UK...	Pegg, Nicol, Mattacks
August 1986	Expletive Delighted! Expletive Delighted! Expletive Delighted! is a 1986 album by folk rock band Fairport Convention. It is the band's only album consisting solely of instrumental tracks, despite the claim "Lyric sheet enclosed" on the album cover....	Pegg, Nicol, Mattacks, Maartin Allcock Maartin Allcock Maartin Allcock , also known as Martin Allcock, is a multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer.-Biography:... , Ric Sanders Ric Sanders Richard 'Ric' Sanders is a British violinist who has played in jazz-rock, folk rock, electric folk and folk groups, including Soft Machine and Fairport Convention.-Biography:...
1987	Heyday Heyday (Fairport Convention album) Heyday: the BBC Radio Sessions 1968–69 is an album by English folk rock band Fairport Convention first released in 1987. As its title suggests, it consists of live versions of songs recorded for John Peel's Top Gear radio programmes.-Side one:...	Nicol, Thompson, Denny, Hutchings, Lamble, Matthews
December 1987	In Real Time: Live '87 In Real Time: Live '87 In Real Time: Live '87 is an album by folk rock band Fairport Convention. Although appearing to consist of recordings of concert performances, the album was largely recorded at The Mill studio, Farnham, Buckinghamshire, with audience responses dubbed on later, reputedly taken from a recording of a...	Pegg, Nicol, Mattacks, Allcock, Sanders
December 1989	Red & Gold Red & Gold Red & Gold is a 1988 album by folk rock band Fairport Convention.The album was released on the Rough Trade label, leading David Fricke, Rolling Stone's reviewer to comment...
December 1990	The Five Seasons The Five Seasons The Five Seasons is a 1990 album by folk rock band Fairport Convention.-Side one:# "Claudy Banks" - 5:53# "Cup of Tea!"/"A Load of Bread"/"Miss Monahan's" - 3:16...
June 1995	Jewel in the Crown Jewel in the Crown (album) Jewel In The Crown is a 1995 folk-rock album by Fairport Convention which is viewed by many as the best record produced by the line up which had been formed in 1985 for the one off project, Gladys' Leap...
July 1996	Old New Borrowed Blue Old New Borrowed Blue Old New Borrowed Blue is a 1996 album by folk rock band Fairport Convention, although for this release, they were billed as "Fairport Acoustic Convention" as it was the band's first all-acoustic album in 29 years... - Studio/Live, credited to "Fairport Acoustic Convention"	Pegg, Nicol, Allcock, Sanders
June 1997	Who Knows Where the Time Goes? Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (Fairport Convention album) Who Knows Where the Time Goes? is an album released in 1998 by folk rock band Fairport Convention. It is a mixture of studio and live tracks recorded at Woodworm Studios, Oxfordshire, The Cropredy Festival 1995 and the Fairport Convention Winter Tour 1997.The cover photograph was taken at Barford...	Pegg, Nicol, Allcock, Sanders, Mattacks, Chris Leslie
July 2000	The Wood and the Wire The Wood and the Wire The Wood and the Wire is an album released in 2000 by folk rock band Fairport Convention.Gerry Conway returned to Fairport on drums for his first appearance since 1973, but the album most strongly features Chris Leslie, who alone and with Nigel Stonier, composed and took lead parts on most of it...	Pegg, Nicol, Sanders, Leslie, Gerry Conway Gerry Conway (musician) Gerald Conway is an English folk and rock drummer/percussionist, best known for having performed with the backing band for Cat Stevens in the 1970s, Jethro Tull during the 1980s, and currently a member of Fairport Convention as well as his side projects...
February 2002	XXXV XXXV (album) XXXV is a 2001 album by Fairport Convention, subtitled "The 35th Anniversary Album".-Track listing:# "Madeleine" - 4:23# "My Love Is in America" - 4:43...
September 2004	Over the Next Hill Over the Next Hill Over the Next Hill, released in 2004, is an album by the band Fairport Convention. It has been described by Mojo as "simply [Fairport's] best album in 25 years"....
February 2007	Sense of Occasion Sense of Occasion Sense of Occasion is a 2007 studio album by British folk-rock veterans Fairport Convention. The title comes from the fact that 2007 marks the 40th anniversary of the band ....
January 2011	Festival Bell Festival Bell Festival Bell is a 2011 studio album from electric folk band Fairport Convention. The name of the album is a reference to the bell of the same name that currently rings in St Mary's Church in Cropredy, Oxfordshire...

Live albums

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Date	Title
July 1974	Fairport Live Convention Fairport Live Convention Fairport Live Convention is a folk rock album by Fairport Convention originally released in 1974 by Island Records. It was recorded live at the Sydney Opera House, the London Rainbow and the Fairfield Halls, Croydon by John Wood and mixed down at Sound Techniques, London... (titled A Moveable Feast in the USA)
January 1977	Live at the L.A. Troubadour Live at the L.A. Troubadour Live at the L.A. Troubadour along with its reissued counterpart House Full are the only live Fairport Convention albums to feature Richard Thompson. It was recorded in 1970 on the Full House tour and was reissued in 2007. Some of the material is available on House Full but a number of tracks can... (Recorded Sept 1970)
1979	Farewell Farewell Farewell Farewell Farewell, Farewell is a live Fairport Convention album recorded on the band's farewell tour in 1979. It is the last Fairport album to feature fiddler/mandolinist Dave Swarbrick. Tracks are drawn from three performances of the Farewell Tour during Spring 1979: at Birmingham University, Southampton... (aka Encore Encore)
1982	Moat On The Ledge - Live At Broughton Castle Moat on the Ledge Moat on the Ledge: Live at Broughton Castle, August '81 is a live folk rock album by Fairport Convention. The album was produced by Simon Nicol and Dave Pegg.... (Recorded August 15, 1981)
June 1986	House Full: Live at the L.A. Troubadour (Recorded Sept 1970)
October 1994	25th Anniversary Concert
1998	The Cropredy Box The Cropredy Box The Cropredy Box is an album by Fairport Convention recorded at their annual live concert in Cropredy, Oxfordshire, England to celebrate the band's thirtieth anniversary in 1997. Featuring many songs for which the band had become noted, the set also features performances from many former members... (3-CD set)
1999	Cropredy 98
2000	Kind Fortune (2-CD set - the first live, the second a compilation)
2002	From Cropredy to Portmeirion (Recorded 1990)
2002	The Airing Cupboard Tapes (Recorded 1971-1974)
2002	Cropredy 2002 (2-CD set)
2004	The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood (2-CD set + interview DVD, recorded at Cropredy 1986 & 1987)
2004	Cropredy Capers: 25 Years of Fairport Convention and Friends at Cropredy Festival (4-CD set)
2005	Journeyman's Grace
2005	Acoustically Down Under (Recorded 1996)
2006	Off The Desk Off the Desk -Personnel:*Simon Nicol – vocals, guitar*Dave Pegg – vocals, bass guitar, mandolin on "Canny Capers"*Ric Sanders – violin, mandolin on "Morris Medley"*Chris Leslie – vocals, bouzouki, mandolin, violin, Native American flute*Gerry Conway – drums, percussion...
2007	Live at the BBC Live at the BBC (Fairport Convention album) Live at the BBC is a compilation album by English folk-rock band Fairport Convention released in 2007. It includes tracks recorded for the BBC for various radio programmes between 1968 and 1974 and consists of four CDs in a fold-out package with a fifty-page booklet including song lyrics and...
2007	Who Knows? 1975
2007	On the Ledge (2-CD set, 35th Anniversary Concert)
2008	Live At Cropredy '08

Compilation albums

Release date	Title
1972	The History of Fairport Convention
1975	Tour Sampler (UK Only issue)
July 1976	Fairport Chronicles Fairport Chronicles Fairport Chronicles is a 1976 compilation album of the British folk-rock band Fairport Convention, including songs from 1968 to the departure of the last original member in 1972... http://www.musikfolk.co.uk/expletive-delighted/album-chronicles.htm USA Only A&M Records SP3530
1983	Folk With Poke (Instrumentals And Sloth) Studio / live (Australia-only compilation)
1991	The Woodworm Years
1995	A Chronicle of Sorts 1967 - 1969
1999	Meet On the Ledge: The Classic Years 1967-1975 (2-CD set)
1999	Fiddlestix: The Best of Fairport, 1970-1984
2001	Some of Our Yesterdays
2002	Fairport Convention
2002	Then & Now 1982 - 1996: The Best of Fairport Convention
February 2003	Rhythm Of The Times (1985 - 1990)
2003	Shines Like Gold (3-CD set)
2003	Across the Decades (2-CD set)
January 2009	Fame and Glory