Come All Ye Polling Minstrels: Fairport Convention's Liege & Lief

Ashley Hutchings played on both L&L and No Roses, and I much prefer the latter if I'm in the mood for folk rock -- maybe because it's more firmly folky.

yeah? as much as I <3 Shirley Collins, I love Sandy Denny even more ...

both great records though

there's something hardwired in me to love shirley the best. i'm not sure what it is. i enjoy sandy's voice immensely, but there's something about shirley that i love above all others.

As much as I love Matty Groves, there's something so droney and weirdly beautiful about Reynardine that I might have to play the contrarian and go for that one.

yeah, i think Reynardine is pretty magical -- i dunno, it sounds like this airy, simple thing, but that sort of music is actually *very* hard to play. Everyone in the band is locked in tight on that song.

I mean, I love a good stomping murder ballad as much as the next girl, but Reynardine puts all the hairs on the back of my neck and gives me genuine shivers. I don't know if it's natural drone resonance or if there's a slight phase on the guitars and things but the way that the notes *shiver* is just devastating.

It may be airy, but there is nothing simple about it at all, the chord structure and the way the melody bobs and weaves in and out of it ... it's much more complex than it seems.

"Tam Lin" got me into Fairport Convention ("Black Sabbath in aran sweaters," etc), so that; I'd always loved the Tam Lin legend since reading, what, Diana Wynne Jones' Fire & Hemlock as a kid.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2BRezwz92M