In May of 1969, Fairport Convention’s band van swerved ... with many of the songs dating from the 16th through the 19th centuries (“Tam Lin”, “Reynardine”, “Matty Groves”, “The ...

Fairport added traditional English music and a renewed sense of purpose to their already diverse elements, and emerged triumphant. Here on “Reynardine” or “Tam Lin” the kind of musical ...

If Fairport Convention's fortieth anniversary tour conjures ... Goes underlined the sense of lost voices, the reinvigorated Tam Lin and evergreen Matty Groves confirmed that Fairport still know ...

They are Fairport Convention ... Some of their earliest attempts, including Matty Groves and Tam Lin, have remained as "hits" in their set list ever since. They have also continued to move ...

Fairport Convention’s Liege & Lief was the third album the group ... their own unique interpretation of ancient songs of sex, death and magic, such as ‘Tam Lin’ and ‘Matty Groves’. That murderous ...

Less well known however, is Tam Lin, a fairy knight who roams the ... featured in a new wave of popular culture in Britain. Fairport Convention, an English folk-rock band, recorded an electrifying ...

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 ...

But after a tragic road crash, Fairport Convention holed up in the countryside ... and blast out classics like “Matty Groves” and Tam Lin” with electric instruments was, for some listeners ...

A GIG by electric folk pioneers Fairport Convention will help launch ... three original compositions including the epic offerings Tam Lin and Matty Groves. Despite its success, by 1971 both ...