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Water Music Records

Fairport Convention

What We Did on Our Holidays

one of rough trade's island 50th anniversary selection 50 crucial titles specially selected by us to highlight the unique contribution this seminal label has made to british music since 1959 an album that revels in an embarrassment of influences which the band bind making their own this was the fairport that ran with the psychedelic underground flexing their muscles a slumbering entity about to wake this was their beatnik phase producing such evergreens as sandy denny's beautiful 'fotheringay' the first tangible examples of electrified trad in 'nottamun town' and 'she moves through the fair' neither song incidentally british more significantly richard thompson began to move in his own mysterious way gifting 'meet on the ledge' which has since become their signature variety as they say is the spice of life and this collection adroitly exploits just that