Artist: Fairport Convention Title: Full House (Bonus Track Edition) Year Of Release: 1970 Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) Genre: Folk Rock Quality: FLAC (tracks) Total Time: 00:58:38 Total Size: 355 mb Tracklist: 01. Fairport Convention - Walk Awhile 02. Fairport Convention - Doctor Of Physick 03. Fairport Convention - Dirty Linen 04. Fairport Convention - Sloth 05. Fairport Convention - Sir Patrick Spens 06. Fairport Convention - Flatback Caper 07. Fairport Convention - Poor Will And The Jolly Hangman (1988 Version) 08. Fairport Convention - Flowers Of The Forest 09. Fairport Convention - Now Be Thankful (Mono Version) 10. Fairport Convention - Sir B. McKenzie's Daughter's Lament For The 77Th Mounted Lancers Retreat From The Straits Of Loch Knombe, 11. Fairport Convention - Bonny Bunch Of Roses 12. Fairport Convention - Now Be Thankful (New Stereo Mix) Fairport Convention is a group that has always beaten the odds that's why a version of the band is working in the 21st century. By the time of this, the group's fifth album, key members Ashley Hutchings and Sandy Denny had exited the lineup, yet the group continued here without skipping a beat, for the first time without a female singer and it turned out not to make a major difference. Richard Thompson and Dave Swarbrick took over as singers, and Dave Pegg (more recently of Jethro Tull) joined on bass, and the resulting album was actually more viscerally exciting than its predecessor, Liege and Lief, if not quite as important as that record, since it came first. Even vocally, this version of the group needed offer no apologies. Thompson, Swarbrick, Pegg, and Simon Nicol harmonize beautifully around strong lead vocals. Not only does the singing here retain the high standard of the earlier incarnation of the group (check out the harmony singing on "Sir Patrick Spens" and "Flowers of the Forest"), but the playing throughout has greater urgency and punch, from the rousing Thompson-Swarbrick opener "Walk Awhile" to the haunting, moody, dazzling nine-minute "Sloth," which remained part of the group's live set for years. An indispensable recording, and one that anybody who wants to truly know this band, or to take in some of the best work of Richard Thompson's career, must own (his playing on "Sloth" and "Doctor of Physick" makes it worthwhile). Swarbrick's fiddle and viola playing is also among the best of his career. Ironically, Thompson would make this his last full-time studio venture with Fairport, but what a way to go!