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Chris -- 2018-04-11
“Liege and Lief” was a breakthrough folk-rock album released in 1969 (if it’s possible to have a breakthrough into deliberate archaicism). It’s full of vaguely organic, rustic, rural, (i.e. leafy), music. About 1400 ghits:
With the following album “Liege and Leaf”, also released in 1969, Fairport Convention established themselves as pioneers of English folk rock. ...
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Fairport Convention was extremely prolific… This is the album with all the songs that didn’t fit on Liege and Leaf.
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Any of Fairport’s first four albums—Fairport Convention , What We Did on Our Holidays, Unhalfbricking, and Liege and Leaf—are excellent.
www.popmatters.com/music/columns/lankford/020814.shtml
In his five years with Fairport, Thompson was an integral force behind such seminal records as Liege and Leaf ...
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Kismet! I’ve been hauling out early Fairport the last few days, and I was going to put on Liege and Lief tonight. Cue the Twilight Zone theme….
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