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Song of the Day

17 May, ‘25

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7:51 AM EST November 3, 2024:

Fairport Convention - "Dear Landlord" From the album Unhalfbricking (July 1969)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Cover of the Dylan song from John Wesley Harding. Recorded with the rest of it, but left off Unhalfbricking because, well, it's already got three Dylan cover. They added it back as a Bonus track for the 2003 CD reissue.

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Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where The Time Goes? (1969)

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Fairport Convention - Million Dollar Bash (1969)

A fun and rollicking version of Dylan’s Basement Tapes tune.

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Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where The Time Goes?

“Sad, deserted shore, your fickle friends are leaving Ah, but then you know it's time for them to go But I will still be here, I have no thought of leaving I do not count the time For who knows where the time goes? Who knows where the time goes?“

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Fairport Convention’s 3rd studio album was released in the UK on 3 July 1969 (only 6 months after What We Did on Our Holidays, and only 2 months after 19-year-old drummer Martin Lamble and Jeannie Franklyn (Richard Thompson’s girlfriend) had been killed in a wreck when the band was returning from a performance (Ashley Hutchings recalls that the clothes he’s wearing in the back jacket photo have the blood stains from the accident on them).

Three Bob Dylan songs appear on the album, “If You Gotta Go, Go Now” (retitled “Si tu dois partir”), “Million Dollar Bash,” and “Percy’s Song” with the latter 2 songs then unreleased. “Si tu dois partir” peaked at #21 in the UK and was Fairport  Convention’s only charting single.

The album’s title, Unhalfbricking, was a word invented by Sandy Denny, and the album’s front image is of her parents (with the band visible through the fence).

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Fairport Convention

Unhalfbricking

@ 1969 UK 1st Pressing

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Unhalfbricking is the third album by the British folk rock band Fairport Convention and their second album released in 1969. It is seen as a transitional album in their history and marked a further musical move away from American influences towards more traditional English folk songs that had begun on their previous album, What We Did on Our Holidays and reached its peak on the follow-up, Liege & Lief, released later the same year.

As well as featuring several, at the time, unreleased Bob Dylan songs, the album also marked Sandy Denny's arrival as a songwriter, with "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?", a song covered by many other performers and now regarded as a classic. The only traditional song on the album, "A Sailor's Life", is seen as pivotal in the development of English folk rock music.

Changes in the line-up of the band, due not only to its musical direction but also to external events, mark this album as a turning point in the band's history. 1969 was a prolific year for Fairport Convention; from What We Did on Our Holidays to Liege & Lief within twelve months represented a major development.

The album also gave the band their first UK chart success, reaching number 12 in the UK album chart (the second highest position in the band's entire career), while the single release, "Si Tu Dois Partir", achieved number 21 in the UK singles chart.