Gone Gone Gone

The Head Cat himself, Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, talks in his sleep.

"...a different musical path - been a member of Fairport Convention or something like that?..."

May 7, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music

The British folk revival, again

"...of the era: the Incredible String Band, Pentangle, and Fairport Convention, among others. Young establishes a compelling pattern of..."

July 15, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

ACL Music Fest Sunday Interview

The droll Fairport Convention founder still shoots out the lights

"...London-born and -raised, Thompson helped found Fairport Convention in the late 1960s, the band that set..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Songwriter Session: Richard Thompson

SXSW Panel Reviews

"...Songwriter Session: Richard ThompsonAustin Convention Center, Friday, March 15..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Off the Record

A curated survival guide to the Austin City Limits Music Festival

"...Attic, but also oversaw nearly every aspect of the Fairport Convention founder's 4-CD career retrospective last year on Shout!..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s

Sheet Music

"...and personal lives of Nick Drake, Sandy Denny, and Fairport Convention. Equally rich are his relationships with promoters, engineers,..."

March 16, 2007 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Shearwater & Sharon Van Etten

"...Minotaur," penned by Shearwater captain Jonathan Meiburg, swoons pure Fairport Convention on Brooklyn heartbreaker Van Etten caressing her partner's..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Spotlight: Richard Thompson

Still wry after all these years

"...wry Thompson famously got his start with the groundbreaking Fairport Convention, a seminal Sixties electric folk outfit that for..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature by Dan Oko

Nights in White Satin

Streaming Spotify all the way back to the reel-to-reel

"...1) "Matty Groves," Fairport Convention..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

Old Settler's Music Festival preview

"...2 Folk Lifetime Achievement Award, the London-born bard founded Fairport Convention, the king of English folk-rock bands in the..."

April 15, 2011 Music Feature

Richard Thompson

"...roots as founder of the seminal British folk-rock band Fairport Convention; instead the creamy sliver tipped gently to the..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Richard Thompson

"...British electric folk he buzzed the world with in Fairport Convention. Dream Attic doesn't store a bad tune, although..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Who Knows Where the Time Goes

Both sides now – 50 years ago and now the iGeneration

"...on the scene as vocalist for England's premier folkies Fairport Convention, American audiences were primed because of Judy Collins...."

Aug. 27, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Looking Back...

Let the post-SXSW depression begin!

"...was a ragged combination of My Bloody Valentine and Fairport Convention. Not exactly folk as I'd describe it, but..."

March 24, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

I Built My Girlfriend's iPod

Stranded on a desert island? At least you have your iPodSolar.

"...to maintenance now, 10,000 iTunes crippling her laptop. Farewell Fairport Convention Live at the BBC. Cheesy morsels aside (Axe,..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Richard Thompson

In box

"...others. Thompson's recorded career begins with pioneering British folkies Fairport Convention, given short shrift here with only five tracks,..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Yesterday When I Was Younger Than Yesterday

Surveying the local scene then and now

"...ancient words into modern music reminds me how wonderfully Fairport Convention did this with Child ballads in the 1970s...."

Dec. 15, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Genesis

"...it's no surprise to hear Gabriel claim heralded folkies Fairport Convention as an influence in an interview. In 1972,..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

When the Circus Comes to Town

Bert Jansch's first time in Texas gives us the vapors.

"...the Game” by Jackson C. Frank, former boyfriend of Fairport Convention vocalist Sandy Denny. Jansch's voice, a mixture of..."

June 11, 2007 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Folk-rock grudge match and the unmanning of men

"...British traditional folk-rock group Steeleye Span beat fellow folkies Fairport Convention, 8-3...."

Dec. 22, 2006 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Richard Thompson

Gift Guide

"...would feature his beginnings with pioneering British folk band Fairport Convention, his work as a sideman with artists like..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Realms of Inspiration

Erik Hokkanen, Finnish and fiddling in Austin

"...of Orlando. My brother loved British folk rock, like Fairport Convention, and went on to write an electric mandolin..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez

Texas Platters

"...credentials places John Platania (Van Morrison) and Dave Mattacks (Fairport Convention) with Austin's Lloyd Maines, Earl Poole Ball, and..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Desert Island Discs

"...5. Fairport Convention, Liege & Leaf (A&M)..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature

Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos (Bloodshot)

National Records

"...Timms sings as sweetly as Sandy Denny did with Fairport Convention, an interesting cross-channeling of influences, and Cowboy Sally..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

The Singer Not the Song

But the Little Girls Understand

"...Jackson 5. I would be off on Laura Nyro, Fairport Convention, and always, the Stones. I kept getting older,..."

June 11, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Texas Platters

Jimmy Lafave

"...Best of all, Van King's not bumping alone. Whereas conventional wisdom and a smaller budget might have recorded Van..."

April 23, 1999 Music Feature

I Wanna Take You Higher

"...On the subjects, Christgau is as unconventional as he is convincing. He treats the Beastie Boys..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Books Feature by Simon Reynolds

Live Shots

Beastie Boys, Rancid, Asiandubfoundation

"...Lakers. Veteran of a number of storied folk-rock outfits (Fairport Convention, Matthews Southern Comfort, and, more recently, Hamilton Pool),..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Music Feature

SXSW Record Reviews

"...Altan is more closely related to the sound of Fairport Convention than the Chieftains, but the quest for timelessness..."

March 13, 1998 Music Review

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