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Title: Best kind of Fairport song
Post by: David W on June 14, 2017, 04:26:31 PM
I have been listening to the 25th anniversary Cropredy album and realised how much I liked Close to the Wind as a song. BUT although it was in the FC set for a while as far as I know it was never a studio performance being a Swarb and Nicol track. What other songs, part of Fairport sets, but never recorded by them do we love?


Title: Re: Best kind of Fairport song
Post by: Shane (Skirky) on June 14, 2017, 04:33:01 PM
*gets popcorn*  [;-)


Title: Re: Best kind of Fairport song
Post by: RobertD on June 14, 2017, 06:35:19 PM
Was there ever a non-demo studio version of Ballad Of Ned Kelly? That's a good one


Title: Re: Best kind of Fairport song
Post by: Peter H-K on June 14, 2017, 06:50:07 PM

I have been listening to the 25th anniversary Cropredy album and realised how much I liked Close to the Wind as a song. BUT although it was in the FC set for a while as far as I know it was never a studio performance being a Swarb and Nicol track. What other songs, part of Fairport sets, but never recorded by them do we love?


I'm having difficulty thinking of examples. All Along the Watchtower? The Grateful Dead had loads of songs that there was never a studio version of.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure it's the case that there's no studio version of Close to the Wind. Isn't it on In Real Time (which, as we know, was not really a live album)?


Title: Re: Best kind of Fairport song
Post by: Dubai Danny on June 16, 2017, 11:59:40 AM

I have been listening to the 25th anniversary Cropredy album and realised how much I liked Close to the Wind as a song. BUT although it was in the FC set for a while as far as I know it was never a studio performance being a Swarb and Nicol track

Well... it's on In Real Time, which was recorded as-live in the studio with the band all playing at the same time and fake crowd noises added... but they've never done a conventional studio recording of it with each band member doing their part separately.


Title: Re: Best kind of Fairport song
Post by: Jules Gray on June 16, 2017, 02:00:49 PM
Staines Morris was never recorded in the studio, though it did make a live album.

Jules



Title: Re: Best kind of Fairport song
Post by: folkfreak (Alexander) on June 16, 2017, 02:16:23 PM
Yellow Bird... But is it the best song ?


Title: Re: Best kind of Fairport song
Post by: David W on June 16, 2017, 03:07:11 PM

Staines Morris was never recorded in the studio, though it did make a live album.

Jules




Was it ever planned to br recorded, I love it.

DW


Title: Re: Best kind of Fairport song
Post by: Jules Gray on June 16, 2017, 05:42:58 PM


Staines Morris was never recorded in the studio, though it did make a live album.


Was it ever planned to be recorded, I love it.


Thinking about it, RT did it with Ashley for Morris On, so it sort of was.

And perhaps it would have made the album after Full House if Richard had stayed with Fairport.

Jules


Title: Re: Best kind of Fairport song
Post by: Adam on June 16, 2017, 09:32:37 PM
How about Shattering Live Experience? A Great SN composition, which (I think) has only seen the light of day as a radio session.