In May of 1969, Fairport Convention’s band van swerved off the road and down a steep embankment on the M-1 outside of Birmingham, ... (“Tam Lin”, “Reynardine”, “Matty Groves”, ...

R1969 Rightly considered a folk-rock landmark, Fairport’s fourth album contains music too mercurial to be constrained within one genre. Not that it ever looked as if things would turn out quite ...

Tam Lin encounters a maiden, ... Fairport Convention, an English folk-rock band, recorded an electrifying arrangement of the song on “Liege and Lief”, their album of 1969.

For a group of twentysomething longhairs like Fairport to breeze in and blast out classics like “Matty Groves” and Tam Lin” with electric instruments was, for some listeners, akin to Dylan ...

If Fairport Convention's fortieth anniversary tour conjures up images of old dodderers taking ... the reinvigorated Tam Lin and evergreen Matty Groves confirmed that Fairport still know how to ...

Folk: Fairport convention Herald and Times archive. Share. Sat Feb 23, 7.30pm, Queen's Hall, 85-59 ... Some of their earliest attempts, including Matty Groves and Tam Lin, ...

Fairport Convention’s Liege & Lief was the third album the group released in a tumultuous year, ... such as ‘Tam Lin’ and ‘Matty Groves’. That murderous cuckolding anthem is a particular favourite ...

More than 20 musicians have passed through the ranks of Fairport Convention--most notably Richard Thompson and Sandy Denny--and the quintet's two newest members are drummer Gerry Conway, who ...

Fairport's Cropredy Convention opened its gates at 14:00 BST on Thursday. The festival, which takes place in Cropredy, near Banbury, has been staged in the area annually since 1980.