Fairport Convention Liege & Lief

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• The path that Fairport Convention have traveled in four albums and two years is one of the most remarkable in British pop music. On these records are some of the most famous names not only in British music, but in world music.
  This reissue is a faithful recreation of the original 1969 Island Records UK issue with gatefold sleeve and is pressed on high quality 180g vinyl. From a group of school friends who set out to become the UK’s Jefferson Airplane, the group evolved over the course of their first four releases into the leading exponents of British folk rock.
  Just as American folk and blues looked back to gospel and spirituals, Fairport drew from traditional English folk songs and combined them with rock rhythms to create something groundbreaking.
  In May 1969, the band was involved in a serious car accident that unfortu