Folk rock group Fairport Convention is usually credited as the first British folk rock band. Founded in 1967 and initially covering songs by artists such as Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, they developed a devoted niche following by providing electrified and upbeat versions of traditional folk tunes alongside their own compositions. In a career spanning over 50 years, notable for numerous changes of line-up as well as continued success, Fairport Convention have issued over 50 albums.
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Folk rock group FairportConvention is usually credited as the first British folk rock band. Founded in 1967 and initially covering songs by artists such...
listed in the session work discography. For more details of FairportConvention's album releases see FairportConventiondiscography Albums on which Thompson...
FairportConvention are an English folk rock band, formed in 1967 by guitarists Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol, bassist Ashley Hutchings and drummer...
record producer. He was a founding member of British folk rock group FairportConvention and is the only founding member still in the band. He has also been...
He is the longest-serving member of the British folk rock band FairportConvention and has been bassist with a number of folk and rock groups including...
was a founding member of three noteworthy English folk-rock bands: FairportConvention, Steeleye Span and The Albion Band. Hutchings has overseen numerous...
on several record labels. Denny was the lead singer of the group FairportConvention, and fronted the band through several of their most highly regarded...
Seasons is the seventeenth studio album by British folk rock band FairportConvention. Side one "Claudy Banks" (Traditional) - 5:53 "Cup of Tea!"/"A Loaf...
singer-songwriter who was lead singer of the British folk rock band FairportConvention. She has been described as "the pre-eminent British folk rock singer"...
British folk rock band FairportConvention. It is the twenty-ninth album released by the band since their debut, FairportConvention, in 1968. Gerry Conway...
band FairportConvention. He replaced Martin Lamble, who had died on 12 May 1969 in a road accident on the M1 motorway, as the drummer for Fairport Convention...
Unhalfbricking is the third studio album by the English folk rock band FairportConvention and their second album released in 1969. It is seen as a transitional...
as FairportConvention's leading figure and guided the band through a series of important albums until their temporary disbandment in 1979. Fairport Convention...
August 1949 – 12 May 1969) was the drummer for British folk rock band FairportConvention, from just after their formation in 1967, until his death in the...
Tipplers Tales is a 1978 album by FairportConvention, the band's thirteenth studio album since their debut in 1968. Recorded in only ten days, it was...
singer-songwriter. He was an original member of the British folk rock band FairportConvention from 1967 to 1969 before leaving to form his own band, Matthews Southern...
studio album by folk rock band FairportConvention, although for this release, they were billed as "Fairport Acoustic Convention" as it was the band's first...
work in the British folk rock scene as a member of Fotheringay and FairportConvention as well as being a member of the rock guitar trio The Hellecasters...
singer-songwriter Richard Thompson and recorded by British folk rock band FairportConvention in 1968 on Island Records. It was their second single. The song was...
1943 – 4 February 1989) was an Australian folk singer, a member of FairportConvention and one of the founders of Fotheringay. He mainly worked as a singer-songwriter...
singer-songwriter and musician Sandy Denny on her departure from FairportConvention. The band drew its name from her 1968 composition "Fotheringay" about...
other bands and musicians, most notably with British folk rock band FairportConvention, with whom he was a leading member and violinist for over fifteen...
singer-songwriter, most notable for being a vocalist and a founding member of FairportConvention and Trader Horne. In addition, she and Ian McDonald joined and recorded...