Live at the BBC (Fairport Convention album)

Live at the BBC
Compilation album by Fairport Convention
Released	2007
Recorded	1968–1974
Genre	folk rock
Label	Island

Live at the BBC is a compilation album by English folk-rock band Fairport Convention released in 2007. It includes tracks recorded for the BBC for various radio programmes between 1968 and 1974 and consists of four CDs in a fold-out package with a fifty-page booklet including song lyrics and numerous contemporary photographs.

Track listing

Disc one

1. "Close the Door Lightly When You Go" (Eric Andersen) – 2:57^[1]
2. "I Don't Know Where I Stand" (Joni Mitchell) – 3.36
3. "Some Sweet Day" (Felice & Boudleaux Bryant) – 2.16
4. "You Never Wanted Me" (Jackson C. Frank) – 3.15
5. "Nottamun Town" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 3.35
6. "Marcie" (Joni Mitchell) – 3.34^[2]
7. "Night in the City" (Joni Mitchell) – 3.05
8. "Jack O'Diamonds" (Bob Dylan, Ben Carruthers) – 3.12
9. "Gone, Gone, Gone" (Phil & Don Everly) – 1.59^[3]
10. "Suzanne" (Leonard Cohen) – 5.25
11. "If It Feels Good, You Know It Can't Be Wrong" (Richard Thompson & Ashley Hutchings) – 3.12
12. "Eastern Rain" (Joni Mitchell) – 3.10
13. "Fotheringay" (Sandy Denny) – 3.09
14. "I Still Miss Someone" (Johnny Cash & Roy Cash) – 2.23^[4]
15. "Bird on a Wire" (Leonard Cohen) – 3.27
16. "Tried So Hard" (Gene Clark) – 2.54)^[5]
17. "Reno, Nevada" (Richard Fariña) – 2.23
18. "Book Song" (Ian Matthews & Richard Thompson) – 3.05
19. "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" (Sandy Denny) – 4.14^[6]

Disc two

1. "You're Gonna Need My Help" (Muddy Waters) – 3.56^[7]
2. "Fotheringay" (Sandy Denny) – 3.01
3. "Shattering Live Experience" (Simon Nicol) – 3.23
4. "Cajun Woman" (Richard Thompson) – 2.44^[8]
5. "Autopsy" (Sandy Denny) – 4.24
6. "Si Tu Dois Partir" (Bob Dylan) – 2.25
7. "Percy's Song" (Bob Dylan) – 5.25
8. "Reynardine" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 4.19^[9]
9. "Tam Lin" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick) – 7.46
10. "Sir Patrick Spens" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 3.44
11. "Medley: The Lark in the Morning/Rakish Paddy/Foxhunter's Jig/Toss the Feathers" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 4.12
12. "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Rodgers and Hart) – 2.11
13. "Walk Awhile" (Dave Swarbrick, Richard Thompson) – 4.00^[10]
14. "Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman" (Richard Thompson, Dave Swarbrick) – 5.32
15. "Doctor of Physick" (Dave Swarbrick, Richard Thompson) – 3.37^[11]

Disc three

1. "Sir Patrick Spens" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 3.32^[12]
2. "The Bonny Bunch of Roses" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick, Dave Mattacks, Simon Nicol, Richard Thompson – 10.53^[13]
3. "Dirty Linen" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick) – 4.15
4. "Now Be Thankful" (Richard Thompson, Dave Swarbrick) – 2.24
5. "The Journeyman's Grace" (Dave Swarbrick, Richard Thompson) – 3.56^[14]
6. "Now Be Thankful" (Richard Thompson, Dave Swarbrick) – 3.23
7. "Tokyo" (Jerry Donahue) – 3.23^[15]
8. "Matthew, Mark, Luke and John" (Dave Mattacks, Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg, Dave Swarbrick, Richard Thompson] (5.29)
9. "Possibly Parsons Green" (Trevor Lucas, Pete Roche) – 4.27
10. "Rosie" (Dave Swarbrick) – 4.02
11. "John the Gun" (Sandy Denny) – 5.03^[16]
12. "Fiddlestix" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick, Dave Mattacks, Dave Pegg, Jerry Donahue, Trevor Lucas) – 2.47
13. "Rising for the Moon" (Sandy Denny) – 4.16
14. "Down in the Flood" (Bob Dylan) – 3.27

Disc four

1. "Let's Get Together" (Chet Powers) – 2.48^[17]
2. "One Sure Thing" (Harvey Brooks, Jim Glover) – 3.35
3. "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" (Bob Dylan) – 3.37
4. "Chelsea Morning" (Joni Mitchell) – 3.01
5. "Violets of Dawn" (Eric Andersen) – 3.53^[18]
6. "If (Stomp)" (Ian MacDonald, Richard Thompson) – 2.35
7. "Time Will Show the Wiser" (Emitt Rhodes) – 2.59
8. "If I Had a Ribbon Bow" (Huey Prince, Louis Singer) – 2.34
9. "Meet on the Ledge" (Richard Thompson) – 2.48^[19]
10. "Light My Fire" (Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Robert Krieger, Ray Manzarek) – 1.20^[20]
11. "Flatback Caper" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick, Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg, Dave Mattacks, Richard Thompson) – 6.23^[21]
12. "Open the Door, Richard" (Bob Dylan)^[22] – 3.54
13. "The Deserter" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 3.54^[23]
14. "The Hangman's Reel" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick) – 3.23
15. "Tam Lin" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick) – 8.03
16. "Sir William Gower" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 4.47^[24]
17. "Banks of the Sweet Primroses" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 4.09
18. "Sickness and Diseases" (Dave Swarbrick, Richard Thompson) – 3.46
19. "Bridge over the River Ash" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick, Dave Mattacks, Dave Pegg, Simon Nicol) – 2.09
20. "Lord Marlborough" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 3.21
21. "Angel Delight" (Dave Mattacks, Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg, Dave Swarbrick]) – 4.04

Personnel

• Ashley Hutchings, bass [CD 1; CD 2 1–12; CD 4 1–10];
• Martin Lamble, drums [CD 1; CD 2 1–7; CD 4 1–10];
• Simon Nicol, guitar, vocals, backing vocals [CD 1; CD 2; CD 3 1–6; CD 4];
• Richard Thompson, guitar, vocals [CD 1; CD 2; CD 3 1–6; CD 4];
• Sandy Denny, vocals [CD 1; CD 2 1–10; CD 3 11–14];
• Ian Matthews, vocals [CD 1; CD 2 1–3; CD 4 5–10];
• Ric Grech, violin [CD 2 4–7];
• Dave Mattacks, drums [CD 2 8–15; CD 3; CD 4 11–21];
• Dave Swarbrick, violin, vocals [CD 2 8–15; CD 3; CD 4 11–21];
• Dave Pegg, bass, fiddle, mandolin, backing vocals [CD 2 13–15; CD 3; CD 4 11–21];
• Trevor Lucas, guitar, vocals [CD 3 7–14];
• Jerry Donahue, guitar, vocals [CD 3 7–14];
• Judy Dyble, vocals [CD 4 1–8]

References

1. Tracks 1 – 5 recorded 28 May 1968 for John Peel's Top Gear and broadcast 2 June 1968
2. Tracks 6 – 8 recorded 18 June 1968 for David Symonds show & broadcast c. 24 June 1968
3. Tracks 9 – 13 recorded 26 August 1968 for John Peel's Top Gear and broadcast 1 September 1968
4. Tracks 14 – 15 recorded 2 December 1968 for Stuart Henry's show and broadcast 8 December 1968
5. Tracks 16 – 18 recorded 27 December 1968 for David Symonds and 6 January 1969
6. Track 19 recorded on 4 February 1969 for Symonds on Sunday and broadcast 9 February 1969
7. Tracks 1 – 3 recorded 4 February 1969 for Symonds on Sunday and broadcast 9 February 1969
8. Tracks 4 – 7 recorded 18 March 1969 for John Peel's Top Gear and broadcast 6 April 1969
9. Tracks 8 – 12 recorded 23 September 1969 for John Peel's Top Gear and broadcast 27 September 1969
10. Tracks 13 – 14 recorded for John Peel's Top Gear and broadcast 2 May 1970
11. Recorded for John Peel's Top Gear, broadcast 1 August 1970
12. Broadcast by David Symonds, on 27 April 1970
13. Tracks 2 – 4 Broadcast by Folk on One on 26 July 1970
14. Tracks 5 – 6 Broadcast by Stuart Henry on 19 November 1970
15. Tracks 7 – 10 recorded on 5 February 1973 for John Peel and 20 February 1973
16. Tracks 11 – 14 recorded on 16 July 1974 for John Peel and broadcast on 6 August 1974
17. Tracks 1 – 4 John Peel's Top Gear, rec. 24 November 1967, bc. 10 December 1967
18. Tracks 5 – 8 John Peel's Top Gear, rec. 6 February 1968, bc. 3 March 1968
19. Stuart Henry, rec. 2 December 1968, bc. 8 December 1968
20. John Peel's Top Gear, rec. 9 December 1968, bc. 22 December 1968
21. Tracks 11 – 12 Sound of the Seventies, host David Symonds, rec. 21 April 1970, bc. 27 April 1970
22. as credited on the album
23. Tracks 13 – 15 Folk on One, bc. 26 July 1970
24. Tracks 16 – 21 Folk on One, bc. 27 March 1971

• "Fairport Convention: Live at the BBC". www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de. Retrieved 8 May 2010.