Rosie (album)

Rosie
Studio album by Fairport Convention
Released February 1973
Recorded July - August 1972 at Sound Techniques, London (except tracks 3 and 5: 1971)
Genre Folk-Rock
Label Island
Producer Trevor Lucas
Fairport Convention chronology
Babbacombe Lee
(1971)		 Rosie
(1973)		 Nine
(1973)
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Rosie is the eighth studio album by folk-rock outfit Fairport Convention, released in 1973.

The album was the first to feature Australian singer-songwriter guitarist Trevor Lucas and American lead guitarist Jerry Donahue. Both had previously played with ex-Fairport Sandy Denny, to whom Lucas was married, in the short-lived Fotheringay. Here they had effectively replaced Simon Nicol who had quit Fairport to join another ex-member Ashley Hutchings in The Albion Band, thus leaving the band with no original members until he rejoined in 1976.

Drummer Dave Mattacks also joined the Albion Band for a while but rejoined during the making of Rosie. He only plays on four of the ten tracks; on others drums are handled alternately by Tim Donald and Gerry Conway. Like Donahue and Lucas, Conway was also ex-Fotheringay, and would himself join Fairport in 1999; he remains with them to this day.

Contents

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Rosie" (Dave Swarbrick)
  2. "Matthew, Mark, Luke & John" (Dave Pegg, Dave Swarbrick)
  3. "Knights of the Road" (Trevor Lucas, Peter Roche)
  4. "Peggy's Pub" (Dave Pegg)
  5. "The Plainsman" (words: Peter Roche/music: traditional, arranged by Trevor Lucas)

Side two

  1. "Hungarian Rhapsody" (Dave Pegg)
  2. "My Girl" (Dave Swarbrick)
  3. "Me With You" (Dave Swarbrick)
  4. "The Hen's March Through the Midden" (traditional, arranged by Fairport Convention)
  5. "Furs and Feathers" (Dave Swarbrick)

A 2004 Island issue, in addition to the previous tracks, featured also the following bonus tracks:

  1. "Matthew, Mark, Luke & John" (Dave Pegg, Dave Swarbrick)
  2. "The Hens March Through the Midden & the Four Poster Bed" (traditional, arranged by Fairport Convention)
  3. "Rosie" (remix)
  4. "The Claw" (Jerry Reed)
  5. "Furs and Feathers" (Dave Swarbrick)

Personnel

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References

  1. ^ Eder, Bruce (2011 [last update]). "Rosie - Fairport Convention | AllMusic". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r7064. Retrieved 28 July 2011. 
Fairport Convention

Maartin Allcock · Dan Ar Braz · Bob Brady · Roger Burridge · Gerry Conway · Sandy Denny · Jerry Donahue · Judy Dyble · Tom Farnell · Roger Hill · Ashley Hutchings · Martin Lamble · Chris Leslie · Cathy Lesurf · Trevor Lucas · Dave Mattacks · Iain Matthews · Simon Nicol · Dave Pegg · David Rea · Bruce Rowland · Ric Sanders · Dave Swarbrick · Richard Thompson · Paul Warren
Studio albums

Fairport Convention (1968) · What We Did on Our Holidays (1969) · Unhalfbricking (1969) · Liege & Lief (1969) · Full House (1970) · Angel Delight (1971) · Babbacombe Lee (1971) · Rosie (1973)  · Nine (1973)  · Rising for the Moon (1975) · Gottle O'Geer (1976)  · The Bonny Bunch of Roses (1977) · Tipplers Tales (1978) · Gladys' Leap (1985) · Expletive Delighted! (1986) · In Real Time: Live '87 (1987) · Red & Gold (1988) · The Five Seasons (1990)  · Jewel in the Crown (1995) · Old New Borrowed Blue (1996)  · Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (1997)  · The Wood and the Wire (2000) · XXXV (2001) · Over the Next Hill (2004) · Sense of Occasion (2007) Festival Bell (2011)
Singles

"If I Had a Ribbon Bow" (1968) · "Meet on the Ledge" (1968) · "I'll Keep It with Mine" (1969) · "Si Tu Dois Partir" (1969) · "If (Stomp)" (1970) · "Now Be Thankful" (1970)
Live albums

Fairport Live Convention (1974) · Live at the L.A. Troubadour (1977) · Farewell Farewell (1979) · Moat on the Ledge - Live at Broughton Castle (1982) · House Full (1986) · Heyday (1987)  · 25th Anniversary Concert (1992) · Cropredy 98 (1999)  · The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood (2004) · Journeyman's Grace (2005) · Live at the BBC (2007) · Off the Desk (2008) Off the Desk (2008) Live at Cropredy 08 (2009)
Compilations

History of Fairport Convention (1972) · Tour Sampler (1975) · Fairport Chronicles (1976) · The Woodworm Years (1991) · A Chronicle of Sorts 1967 - 1969 · Meet On the Ledge: The Classic Years 1967-1975 · Some of Our Yesterdays · Fairport Convention · Then & Now 1982 - 1996: The Best of Fairport Convention · Rhythm of the Times (2003) Across the Decades (2003)
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