Fairport Convention
House Full
Folk 1970 found fairport convention reduced to a quartet after the departure of their singer sandy denny they decided not to replace her and recorded full house a ferocious blend of high intensity rock dynamics with traditional british isle fiddlefilled forms with accolades accumulating for both full house and its predecessor the beloved leige and leif another tour of america was mounted in the late summer 'house full' was recorded in los angeles at the troubador a fine companion piece to its alternatelyordered namesake these eight songs are a revamped set of the live album released only in the uk the lineup of the band is extremely impressive but it was not to last richard thompson left the following year before another studio album was made