Fairport Convention - Live 1970

The Fairports 5th album - Full House appeared in the summer of 1970 - the first without a female lead vocal - with the band touring America during this time to promote it. Here are three dates from that tour.

The new album is heavily featured in the set lists with the odd look back to the seminal Liege & Lief via Tam Lin and The Lark In The Morning and to the increasingly common rearranging of traditional English folk tunes. As the band moved more and more towards the repurposing of these folk standards Richard Thompson, still a member at this point, was becoming increasingly disillusioned as there was little room left for his original material. He would leave the band by the end of the year but he is here, on his last major tour with the band, in full voice and guitar!

Recordings taken from Fillmore East, New York, NYC June 10th 1970 WNEW-FM, Fillmore East, New York, NYC June 12th 1970 WNEW-FM, Old Pool Farm, Schwenksville, PA Philadelphia Folk Festival 29th August 1970 Syndicated Radio

Richard Thompson - guitar, vocal
Dave Swarbrick - violin, vocals
Simon Nicol - guitar, vocals
Dave Pegg - bass
Dave Mattacks - drums